- Albertine (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Albertine
Artist =Brooke Fraser
from Album = Albertine
Released =July 10 , 2007
Format =CD Single Digital download
Recorded =Track Record ,North Hollywood , CA.2006
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:57
Label = Columbia
Writer =Brooke Fraser
Producer =Marshall Altman
Chart position =
Last single = "Shadowfeet "
(2007 )
This single = "Albertine"
(2007 )
Next single = "C.S. Lewis Song"
(2007 )"Albertine" is artist/songwriter Brooke Fraser's eighth single, and her third single from her second studio album Albertine. The singles includes two B-sides: a live version of "C.S. Lewis Song" recorded live at
Hopetoun Alpha , Auckland, as well as a demo version of Faithful. This demo version is the same version that was a bonus track on the digital download release of the Albertine album.The story behind the song is often talked about in interviews (mostly due to it being the title track of her second album), and Fraser wrote at length about the song in the album liner notes of her Albertine album. The song is about an orphan that Fraser met while travelling in Rwanda for the first time in June 2005. Her guide took her to a village school in Kabuga district, and showed her a girl that the guide had personally saved her life. The girl, named Albertine, is described as tall and beautiful by Fraser. Her guide then requested that Fraser write a song about the girl and name it after her. Fraser then wrote the song after returning to Australia after the trip. [cite web | title= "WE INTERVIEW BROOKE FRASER"| url= http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/articles/7224 | work =
NZGirl | date=2006 -12-05 accessdate=2007-07-21] [cite web | title= "INTERVIEW: BROOKE FRASER"| url= http://www.radiochick.co.nz/AllChicks/Interviews/BrookeFraser.aspx | work = Jess O'Connor | accessdate=2007-07-21] [Album "Albertine" liner notes. 2006.]Music Video
The music video for Albertine was shot in May 2007 in
Rwanda . Fraser posted a blog entry in her officialMySpace blog while en route to Rwanda fromJohannesburg . In this entry, she stated:Later, on July 15 the video for the song was released on Brooke Fraser's official YouTube account. [cite web | title= "Brooke Fraser - Albertine video"| url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGx-xU6TnU8 | work = Albertine2006 | accessdate=2007-07-21] It shows mostly face shots at the start of the video interspersed with pictures of children from Rwanda, before finally showing Fraser walk along a bridge as Rwandese people walk by.
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