Flo Wilson (Please) Keep Breathing EP Release Party

Overview

Flo Wilson, the multitalented experimental artist formerly known as Foxtrot, is due to release her debut three-track EP (Please) Keep Breathing at a listening party at Caroline on Friday. The tracks are designed to encourage listeners to engage with the mundane sound elements of their own environments, as Flo plays with them to create exciting new sound forms. The blend of electronics and field recordings from her 'everyday sound world' occupies a "zone between ambient abstraction and more traditional musicality."

In Flo's own words, (Please) Keep Breathing, "was written with the intention of exploring the relationship between the human body and modern mechanics. It sought to blur the lines of where the body left off and the machine began. As the writing progressed, it started to become a response to hearing my partner choke in their sleep without waking. It's about that quiet process of checking your phone is charged, you know where the emergency medicine is in case of an emergency. It's the half-awake state you enter when you're on high alert if someone you love is not safe."

Flo will be supported at the launch by musical act WOMB, whose lilting, poignant (and at times, dark) music will be a brilliant foil to Flo. Hera Lindsay Bird, Wellington poet will also be reading on the night.