Hello, my name is Florence and I’ve been recording and making music as Dos Floris since 2012.

I recorded my debut solo album, the Widowed Earth, in 3 years under the stairs at home (Harry Potter style) whilst raising two children. I didn’t have any fancy gear except a Vintage Neumann U64 mic on loan, reason, cubase and a Yamaha P90 piano. So I had to get creative.  A lot of the sounds on the album are field recordings layered on synth patches or sampled into drum beats.

The Widowed Earth was initially released in 2015 and to my delight picked up her fair share of glowing press reviews and fans of the album. I then self released the album in 2017 after parting ways with the record company.

I toured the album through the UK, Italy, Germany and Poland playing festivals, churches, castles, music venues and meeting amazing people wherever I went. I met one Screamo American band in Poland who had been playing every night for three months. That means screaming for 2/3 hours every evening for eighty four days….

Touring as an independent solo electronic female musician is a weird one. Luckily, for most of the tours I had some amazing sidekicks who saw me through - Maciej, V, Mike, Francis, Mum! -Thank you. Probably the most problematic element when I was on my own was the gear. One coffin sized bag for clothes, pedals, stringed walking stick and mini keyboard, another bag for computer, cables and audio interface and then the 64 weighted keys keyboard on my back. All heaved around on public transport. I remember the last two concerts before covid when I was lugging the whole lot from Manchester down to London, I thought- I’m not doing this again- next time its a private jet…

I never got to ask the Polish and Portuguese bookers for the private jet as covid came along and rendered any form of transport a non-issue. Instead we travelled via the internet in a musical collaboration that resulted in the song “All in This Together” in aid of musicians in need. Pete and Polly on drums and cello in Manchester, Lucy on backing vocals from Nottingham, Alex and Jerry on double bass and guitar in Bristol, me on vocals, keys and guitar in Italy and members of the public from all over the world on the chorus. It was a beautiful thing.

Whilst all of that was going on, life was too. I got divorced and music became my personal diary.  As one reviewer said “Like a mad scientist on a meditation retreat, she’s distilling moments of life into sound waves”. These sound waves became my second album “Broken Love”. As I look back on that time I realise it was the beginning of a becoming, of an awareness. During one devastating moment in particular, I suddenly saw with great clarity that I always had a choice. When I responded to anger and rage with more of the same a little bit of me was lost to myself and it felt all wrong. Responding with love enabled me to sleep at night.

And that Jedi training helped me through the next event that was to change everything forever. In June of 2024, my youngest daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. As the Doctors told us, “this is the place that no parent ever wishes to be” and yet there we were. What followed was 7 long months of chemotherapy and hospitalisations. And yet what also happened was an immense amount of love, courage, kindness and life. It is in honour of this that the single “There is a Light in Everything” is released. It is my greatest aspiration that the music I make now and going forward speaks to the love, light and kindness that is in each of us even if we sometimes forget it is there.