Artist: Tree63
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
King
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
The Life and Times of Absolute Truth
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Originally known just as Tree, Tree63 is an alternative CCM mathematical group from Durban, South Africa, influenced by bands like hallucinating? and Sonicflood, with dashes of U2, Jars of Clay, and other dc Talk for estimable standard. Guitarist/lead singer John Ellis, bassist Scoop, and drummer Daryl Swart got together in late 1996 to do at a local Christian music festival assembled by producer Martin Engel. Over the first base half of 1997, Tree continued honing its alive act, and recorded their debut album, Overflow, at Engel's studio around mid-year. The record helped domain Tree a touring slot possibility for the more dance-oriented Christian outfit MIC in 1998, and subsequently that year, the band was invited to clear for their heroes excited? at the U.K. Soul Survivor festival. Warmly received by the hearing, the band was invited back for the side by side class, and jell around transcription their second album in a higher-tech U.K. studio. Titled 63 (after the psalm), the record album was released in the U.K. in mid-1999 and in South Africa toward the goal of the year, by which time Martin Engel had replaced Scoop as the basso thespian. Tree scored a major strike in their fatherland with the single "A Million Lights," which crossed all over onto mainstream wireless as well, making them the first Christian band to find mainstream achiever in South Africa. Word of mouthpiece around 63 filtered over to American shores as easily, and the group signed to the American inpop label, upon which point they officially changed their identify to Tree63. Their first base American pour forth, a self-titled solicitation of songs re-recorded from their first dickens albums, hit stores in summer 2000.
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