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Lia Ices, pianist and singer, grew up in Connecticut. Since the age of 5, when she first started playing piano, Lia has been defining and refining her creative voice and it's outlet. While at NYU's Tisch School in the Experimental Theatre Wing, she was inspired to turn her stagecraft inward. She was encouraged to use her voice as a vehicle for emotion and as a source of expression, and to release a bit from all the classical training. Lia's re-connection with her inner and outer voice -- matched with her long love of prose, literature, and letter writing -- launched her into song-writing. 'NECIMA' is Lia Ices' debut full length album, produced by Nicolas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, NY. This album was born on the piano and with the voice, drawing up feelings we get when we listen to the inspired songwriting of our old favorites; those artists who created a new sound for themselves that begged others to follow. Both Lia and Nicolas were eager to experiment with the arrangement and instrumentation of the songs and called in a number of talented friends including David Muller (Fiery Furnaces, Dopo Yume), Andy Macleod (White Magic, Bright Black) and Robbie Lee (I and Ear records, Love as Laughter). What came to follow is an eight song stream of tulip/double helix lyrics braided together by a rainbow of sounds; among them, gemshorn, a large Colombian hand drum, White album-era electric guitar, organs, bass clarinet, and at it's backbone of course, Lia's voice and piano.