FLOEX & TOM HODGE RELEASE COLLABORATIVE ALBUM ‘A PORTRAIT OF JOHN DOE’ AND ANNOUNCE FIRST LIVE DATES

FLOEX & TOM HODGE RELEASE COLLABORATIVE ALBUM ‘A PORTRAIT OF JOHN DOE’ AND ANNOUNCE FIRST LIVE DATES

‘A PORTRAIT OF JOHN DOE’ (ALBUM)

MERCURY KX

AVAILABLE NOW

https://MKX.lnk.to/FLOxTHPOPR

STREAMS FOR POSTING:

‘WEDNESDAY IS THE NEW FRIDAY’

https://youtu.be/EAHo9rm5A3Y (HIDDEN ORCHESTRA REMIX)

‘JOHN DOE ARISE’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKIz0ITqeM (ORIGINAL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1xMegr20eg (MAX COOPER REMIX

PRELUDE EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eld5QZobRU (PRELUDE I)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMrey_FIdaE (DELTAWERK REMIX)

Mercury KX has announced Floex & Tom Hodge’s collaborative album ‘A Portrait Of John Doe’ is available now on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. The duo has also announced their first live dates for the project.

The album released on Friday 29 June was preceded by a series of three EPs, which included ‘Wednesday (Is The New Friday)’ featuring a Hidden Orchestra remix, ‘John Doe Arise EP’ with a Max Cooper remix and the ‘Prelude EP’, which comprises ‘Prelude I’ and a remix of the original by Deltawerk.

‘A Portrait Of John Doe’ sees Floex aka Tomas Dvorak, the Czech clarinetist, composer, producer and multimedia artist from Prague, and London-based Hodge the British composer, pianist, and clarinetist, who recently scored McMafia, bring together classical and radical “avant-garde” electronic music. The pair began work on the album after meeting at the Berlin festival in 2014. The project has taken three years to complete and saw the pair work together with the Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra (PRSO) to bring the music and their arrangements to life.

‘Wednesday (Is The New Friday)’ was the first piece of music to be revealed from the album and its accompanying remix from Hidden Orchestra (who Floex recently remixed), further explores the electronic music dynamic created by Floex and Hodge, blending beats into their organic universe. Tom previously worked with Max Cooper, remixer of ‘Arise John Doe’, as Remnants.

Floex & Tom Hodge have just announced their first live performances of the album with confirmed dates on 6 Nov at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia; 7 Nov at Brickhouse DOV, Ostrava, 8 Nov at Divadlo 29, Pardubice, 11 Nov at Gottfrei, Opava, 14 Nov at Kabinet Múz, Brno and Prague, Czech Republic (date to be confirmed).

Floex has released 2 full-length LPs ‘Pocustone’ and ‘Zorya’, plus the ‘Gone EP’ in 2014. Both albums received prestigious awards and Tomas has been discovered and praised by musicians Jon Hopkins, Paul Hartnoll (The Orbital), Deadmau5, Bruce Cawdron (God Speed You Emperor) and Joe Acheson (Hidden Orchestra). Floex has also composed the soundtracks for cult art games Machinarium OST and Samorost 3 OST.

Tom Hodge, whose many credits include arranging tracks on Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s album and his live performances, recently joined forces with long-term collaborator Franz Kirmann to score the BBC/ABC drama McMafia, with the soundtrack also being released by Mercury KX.

Floex & Tom Hodge said:

“We are looking for universal human stories, things that connect us. This is neither an apocalyptic or wildly optimistic vision, the album subject for ‘A Portrait Of John Doe’ is rather a search for modern human values. The theme of the album turns our attention to everyday moments of our lives, as a certain counterbalance to the unceasing pursuit of efficiency, singularity and uniqueness that is so characteristic of today’s times. “

‘PORTRAIT OF JOHN DOE’ – TRACKLISTS

 

CD:

1. Inauguration Of Nobody

2. Wednesday (Is The New Friday)

3. Machines Are Dancing

4. John Doe Arise

5. I Dream Of Ikaria

6. Prelude I

7. Prelude II

8. Resurgence

9. Requiem

 

 

LP:

1. Inauguration Of Nobody

2. Wednesday (Is The New Friday)

3. Machines Are Dancing

4. John Doe Arise

5. I Dream Of Ikaria

6. Prelude I

7. Requiem