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Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea are a Melbourne based band. They have released an EP Permanent Marker (2005) and an LP Dead Wood Falls (2006).
Dead Wood Falls was nominated for a 2006 ARIA award in the category of Best Female Album.
Since the release of their EP Permanent Marker in April 2005, they have toured nationally many times and shared the stage with artists such as Ben Lee, Mia Dyson, Jose Gonzalez, Josh Pyke, Missy Higgins and Laura Veirs. They have also been invited to play festivals such as Queenscliff, Homebake, Falls, Feel Good, Harvest and the Blue Mountains Blues & Roots.
The Endless Sea are: Jen Sholakis (Drums), Lord Geoffrey Dunbar (Bass), Andrea Sumner (Violin) and Michael Hubbard (Guitar).
Dead Wood Falls was recorded with producer Paul McKercher (Augie March, You Am I) over 5 days live to tape at Melbourne's infamous Sing Sing Studios.
"The thing I love the most about this record is that it is, essentially, a live recording", Cloher enthuses.
"You get what was happening right there, right then, between a group of likeminded artists and you cant reproduce that sound."
Praise For Dead Wood Falls:
"Cloher has assembled the most impressive debut of the year."
**** SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"Dead Wood Falls is an astonishingly accomplished debut - delivering abundant cause for Cloher to be counted amongst this country's very brightest of young things."
**** RHYTHMS
"Jen Cloher delivers a nuanced folk offering, striking a high with the raw, rootsy Peaks and Valleys and indulging in an orchestral climax on Rain."
****THE MELBOURNE AGE
"Praise the Lord, from the quagmire
of mediocre wannabes also glows the
invincible musicianship of one Jen
Cloher...to all the cynics who have
lost faith in local folk, stop saying
nay and just bloody go and see Jen
Cloher."
INPRESS
"What can I say about Jen Cloher and
her band which isnt already mind-
numbingly obvious to those who have
seen them play live before? Fucking
brilliant are two words that come
to the fore big things are on the
horizon for these guys."
BEAT
"Whipping up a
storm of sounds from sliding guitars
to sorrowful strings, crashing
tambourine and a driving bass...a
live performance nothing short of
gorgeous."
DRUM MEDIA
**** HERALD SUN
**** TRIPLE J MAG
***1/2 THE AUSTRALIAN
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