MUSIC NEWS - British singer-songwriter-producer and two time Grammy nominee Imogen Heap has announced her new solo album Ellipse will get an August 4th 2009 release (via RCA Records). When Imogen wrapped up her tour in support of her last breakthrough album, Speak For Yourself, she immediately jumped into the writing process for Ellipse. Without even unpacking from the road, Heap spun Google Earth around a few times to plot some destinations to begin writing. She began in Hawaii "because it was the furthest landmass from any other landmass in a large amount of blue" and worked her way through Fiji, Tasmania, Japan, China and Thailand.

Accompanied by only a small writing set up, Ellipse began to take shape. Imogen then returned home to continue work on the record and remained true to her do-it-yourself ethos, building her new studio in the "playroom" of her old family home in Essex, UK, (an 18th century "oval villa" restored by her parents) which she took over just before the start of the record.