renee hibbert
renee hibbert
Genres: australian, acoustic, singer songwriter, lyrics
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Born and raised north of Sydney, Australia in a quintessentially musical family, Renee Hibbert spent her childhood in a home filled with sound. Before she could speak, music was in her veins, cutting her teeth on the Beatles, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and James Taylor. Spending her late teens and early twenties in the band scene of the East Coast, it wasnt long before the pull of creating lured her into the world of production. Relocating from the small, beautiful coastal town to nearby city Newcastle, Renee locked herself in a room with a computer she procured with an arts grant, a guitar and a head full of prose, and began sowing the seeds of Plan B. As the studio grew, so did the collection of songs and connections began being made via the internet. From this, the duo of Aventine was born which saw the release of highly acclaimed album 11hours and 34minutes. Written via the internet, 11hours and 34minutes was a collection of Renee's songs, with cowriter and coproducer Glen Oakes, a Melbournian bass player/producer with a penchant for chilled out electronica. 11hours and 34 minutes was released in October 2005 via a Melbourne record label and garnered excellent reviews. It was a lack of creative control however, that frustrated Renee. As pleased as she was with the Aventine release, she was hatching the idea for an album of her own. The next few years saw Renee writing prolifically. Each song would find its way back to her family home, where she and her father would listen and analyse with a glass of red wine in front of a roaring fire. Songs were entered in writing competitions, receiving acclaim worldwide but life got in the way and between studying and walking the rocky and winding path of her mid-20s, it would be three years, and close to 40 potential album songs later, that Renee would begin the process of compiling her debut release. In 2008, Renee moved to Sydney and it was purely by chance that she would stumble across a small ad in Drum Media. An old friend from her days on the East Coast music scene had opened a studio in a nearby suburb. A meeting was arranged via email and it was over many beers that Renee decided to take the tracks into Schollum City Studios a co-producer had been handpicked. Over the next year, Glen Schollum and Renee chose and refined what would become Plan B, collaborating with her guitarist brother Peter and various talented Sydney musicians. Long days in the studio were followed by beer in Sydney pubs, discussing and analyzing their work. By late 2008, there were 9 songs ready. Renee moved back to Newcastle and the final three songs were written, once again in her home studio, completing the collection where it began. As the album went to mastering, Renee received the call of the road. In pursuit of the next chapter in her musical journey, she decided to take a position in Northern China. Boarding a plane, she said goodbye to her beloved family and friends and left for a distant land. The album was finished and ready to be sent. The master copy was carefully packaged and posted. China Postal Service however, had different ideas and to everyones frustration, the package was intercepted and never arrived. The second copy was made in the studio and hand delivered by Renees father who made the journey to the remote city and the first listening was made with her father and a bottle of Yantai red wine, gazing out across the Chinese landscape as the red sun sank below a hazy horizon. Renee Hibbert's haunting vocals and twisting tales of life's journeys come to life on her bold debut album Plan B.
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