Hello music video lovers! It’s Andy Gesner from HIP Video Promo bringing you this immaculately delivered new video. You may have not heard her music (yet), but on the other side of the globe, she’s a superstar. Brooke Fraser’s two full-length releases have both made their debut at the top of the New Zealand national charts. Down Under, she’s considered a major new songwriter, an articulate and prophetic voice, a compassionate and socially-conscious public figure, and a worthy inheritor of her country’s tradition of intelligent-minded popular music. There’s more than a trace of the Finn Brothers’s urbane pop mastery in her aching, crisply-written melodies.

What To Do With Daylight, her thoughtful debut, spawned five hit singles and took up near-permanent residence in the NZ Top 20. Albertine, the recently-released follow-up, promises to be at least as successful: it went double-platinum a month after its release, and has broken into the Australian Top Ten. “Shadowfeet”, the latest single from the set, is a stirring mid-tempo piano ballad marked by rich natural imagery; Fraser’s performance is both passionate and poised, and her poetic lyrics are plainspoken, sensitive, and quietly articulate

It’s also further evidence of the singer’s admirable geopolitical (and spiritual) engagement. Fraser’s first single from Albertine was the introspective “C.S. Lewis Song”: she’s well-read, and willing to grapple with the same cosmic issues that troubled the legendary author. After the success of What To Do With Daylight, Fraser traveled around the world on charity missions for the World Vision and Opportunity International relief organization, visiting Cambodia, Tanzania, and The Phillippines. She also journeyed to Rwanda on her own dime – and the experiences she has in that Central African nation heavily informed the songwriting on her latest bestselling set. Albertine is named after a young girl she met in Rwanda – a survivor of the civil war that nearly destroyed the nation. “Now that I have seen, I am responsible”, sings Fraser in the title track, “faith without deeds is dead”.

Shot in Rwanda, the video for “Albertine” found Fraser surrounded by many of the children she met on her travels. The beautifully-shot “Shadowfeet” clip isn’t quite so exotic, but it’s just as provocative – and perhaps even as progressive. Encumbered only by a camera, Brooke Fraser walks through the streets of urban Sydney. Around her neck hangs a fifty-millimeter camera lens – the same lens that director TWiN has used to shoot the clip She begins to sing; after a verse, the camera cuts to another person performing in her stead, and then another, and then another! By the end of the clip, people of all ages and ethnicities have taken a turn at Fraser’s empathetic lyrics. It’s a portrait book come to life, and a bold affirmation of the universality of the young singer’s message.

We would like to thank Jeremy Hammond and the folks at Wood & Bone for bringing us this dynamic clip. We have lots of copies of Albertine for your on-air giveaway needs, and Brooke will also be touring the US this June, so please let us know if you’d like to set up a video interview when she comes to your market! If you need more info, call Andy Gesner at 732-613-1779 or e-mail us at HIPVideo@aol.com. You can also visit www.BrookeFraser.com to find out more about Brooke Fraser.

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