In early 1997, Bic recorded her debut album Drive - over a two month period with one engineer and a handful of musicians - and she produced it herself.
Drive was released in New Zealand in 1997 and immediately established Bic as a star. The album won a swag of Tui awards - NZ's equivalant to the Grammy's - including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Vocal Performance, and Best Songwriter (held in the same esteem in New Zealand as the Ivor Novello award in Britian). The album went on to become the biggest selling local artist in New Zealand Music History.
Over the following 2 years, Drive was successfully released all around the world and Bic traveled relentlessly, promoting and performing, sometimes alone with an acoustic guitar, sometimes with a band. Rarely able to return home to the other side of the world, Bic was based for long periods in New York City.
While living in New York, Bic began recording her follow up to Drive. Relishing the freedoms afforded by the digital format and by again self-producing, Bic moved between studios in the USA and New Zealand, utilizing the skills of many engineers and many more musicians. Recording was undertaken to varying degrees in New York, Los Angeles, and Auckland (including Bic's home studio), Wellington and Christchurch.
In February 2002, Bic and her hard drive travelled back to New York for the mixing of the album by mix engineer Michael Brauer (Coldplay, New Radicals) at Quad Studios. It is appropirate that the recording of the last track on Beautiful Collision - gravity - was only completed at Quad while Brauer was busy mixing the other tracks.
1. Drive
2. Sway
3. Hey
4. Bursting Through
5. Swim
6. Roll Into One
7. Suddenly Strange
8. Sorry
9. Heal
10. Delight
11.Without You
1. When I See You Smile
2. Get Some Sleep
3. Something Good
4. Precious Things
5. The Be All And End All
6. Election Night
7. Honest Goodbyes
8. She Left On a Monday
9. Beautiful Collision
10.Listening For the Weather
11. Counting the Days
12. Gravity
Go Download ANY of these songs... my personal favorites esp - Hey, Sway, Drive, Bursting Through, and Heal
FYI
Bic's song "Sway" can be found on the American Pie Soundtrack... its the song playing during the prom party love scene!
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