Brooke Fraser debuted in her native New Zealand five years ago as a 19-year-old singer/songwriter with an album, What To Do With Daylight, that catapulted her into the charts with four number one radio hits and sales exceeding seven times platinum.

She followed that with Albertine, a sophomore album that showcases her songwriting maturity and continued appeal to her homeland audience as well as being her first North American release, coming out in May 2008 on the Wood & Bone label (Redeye).

Albertine has already earned Brooke five times platinum sales in New Zealand, given her a top 20 chart placing in Australia, and New Zealand’s coveted Silver Scroll Award for songwriting as well as serving up more radio smashes in the form of airplay number ones “Deciphering Me” and “Shadowfeet."

The album’s grooves capture the sound of Brooke having toured the world with her songs, playing shows as far afield as Japan, the USA and UK as well as her adopted home of Australia. It's the sound of her blossoming love affair with Africa (the album is named for an orphan in Rwanda with whom Brooke has a special bond), and of passion for justice, authenticity and faith.
 
Brooke camped out in Los Angeles through a Californian summer recording Albertine at Track Record in North Hollywood. At the controls was producer Marshall Altman, a recording artist and former Columbia Records A&R director who recently hit success producing Marc Broussard. Engineer Joe Zook had gone from working alongside legendary producer Jack Joseph Puig to recording and mixing for everyone from Modest Mouse and Rufus Wainwright to Pink and Tricky. And in the studio with Brooke was her new studio band, a bunch of super-talented musicans who have played for stars including Jane's Addiction, Gwen Stefani, Alanis Morrisette, Lionel Richie, Jewel, John Mayer, Sarah McLachlan and more.

"Built by one of the greats, Emmylou Harris, Track Record had all the vibe and history we could have wanted and was the perfect place to record Albertine," says Brooke. "It was void of the mechanical, commercial air that most studios reek of and matched the organic approach we took to making this record."

"One of things of which I'm most proud is that it would not be too much of a stretch to call this album 'live.' I'm thrilled at the way Marshall steered the process, letting the music be what it was meant to be whilst pushing us all as players and reining us in where needed. The tracks you'll hear are not numerous individual session parts being layered over the top of one another by some mouse-clicker in an editing suite – it's me and my friends sitting in a room, making music and meaning what we're playing. Something pretty special happened in that studio which I think all of us were grateful to be a part of. The most appropriate word to describe the experience is 'divine.'"

As America wakes up to this remarkable album, Brooke is spending the summer of 2008 touring extensively through the States and Canada with her band.

Amazon.com remarks, “Immaculately crafted pop that is going to stand the test of time for all the right reasons.”