Jordan Hunt

To the Ocean Floor

P6 004 EP

01 Land Upon Another Shore (2:07)

02 Her Body is a Cage (2:46)

03 Behavioural Memory (2:38)

04 Ride the Wave (1:39)

05 Deeper Than Usual (2:22)

06 Let Me Live (2:58)

07 The Other Side (2:18)

08 Love Arrives Unannounced (2:01)

09 Redemption (2:33)

10 Rectify the Past (4:29)

11 Ocean Floor (3:41)

Jordan Hunt - Ocean Floor

Performed, filmed and directed by Christopher Thomas and Jordan Hunt at home during lockdown 2020.

'As the sediment settles at the Ocean Floor, Jordan Hunt stirs profound emotions from the depths'

A song of two halves, Ocean Floor is that quiet place that you settle when you connect with someone deeply, without saying a word. It’s about second chances. It muses on my mental health journey, and how far I’ve come.

Deeply personal, the song documents the moment I first locked eyes with my partner Christopher (Thomas) at St. Pancras station. I didn’t have the courage to say ‘hello’. As I walked away, I promised myself 'next time'. As chance would have it, 'next time' came only thirty minutes later as I saw him on board my train. I seized the chance to approach him and we’ve been together ever since.

Ocean Floor was written as the final moment in a thirty-minute soundtrack of instrumental piano music to choreographer Christopher Thomas’s ‘To the Ocean Floor’, a dance-theatre work that depicts the final moments in the life of the protagonist, who sees her own death from the other side. The release marks a year since its premiere at Sadler’s Wells, London UK in late July 2019. It is the first single from EP ‘To The Ocean Floor’, released August 7th.

At first a striking enigma, Jordan Hunt’s sophomore EP To the Ocean Floor feels perhaps more wholly true-to-self than ever, with its genre-defying mix of contemporary classical piano instrumentals that lead to the final poignant pop song ‘Ocean Floor’ (released 24th July 2020). Originally the thirty-minute soundtrack to choreographer Christopher Thomas’s dance-theatre piece of the same title, it received its premiere at Sadler’s Wells theatre in London in 2019. 

With a range of classical influences from Chopin to Messiaen, Arvo Pärt to Max Richter and with the filmic and dramatic energy of John Adams and Phillip Glass, the twenty-five minute prelude of piano music is both a departure and arrival for Hunt. This set of ten contemporary classical piano tracks that lead us diving headlong to the devastating final song ‘Ocean Floor’, share the elegance and modernity of their influences, whilst transcending a purely ‘Classical’ aesthetic, all the while filtered through the mind of a classically trained composer who, for the past fourteen years, has developed lasting bonds working in the pop, rock and folk spheres with some incredibly idiosyncratic artists (see below) bringing him full circle to his classical roots, whilst feeling positively fresh and instantly classic.

The profound final song Ocean Floor is a testament to second chances, courage and love, displaying Hunt’s ever-more powerful and emotive voice at its finest yet.