Jen Cloher - I Am The River, The River Is Me [LP]

Cat. no: MA0380LP
Format: LP
Barcode: 5052442023005
Release Date: 31 Mar 2023
Genre: Indie

Jen Cloher is a songwriter and performer living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne), Cloher's taut, incisive, terse brand of rock is charged with the static tension that comes with being an eternal misft; they have spoken truth to power with the shrewd eye that only an outsider can possess

Over the course of fve albums, they have won a J Award and an AIR Award and been nominated for an ARIA and the Australian Music Prize, and founded Milk! Records in 2012 with Courtney Barnett.I Am The River, The River Is Me Cloher's ffth album, was recorded between Aotearoa (NZ) and Naarm (Melbourne) with
producers Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams), Anika Ostendorf (Hachiku) and Cloher's longtime drummer Jen Sholakis; the album brings in trailblazing artists including Emma Donovan (Gumbaynggirr, Yamatji), Kylie Auldist, Liz Stringer, Te Kaahu (Waikato- Tainui, Ngti Tp), Ruby Solly (Kai Tahu, Waitaha, Kti Mmoe) and members of the Naarm-based Kapa Haka, Te Hononga o ng Iwi. The entire record feels communal — a celebration not just of Cloher, but of the rich, life- flled communities that surround them. Cloher's ffth album suggests that home is not found in a place or a politic, but in the community you keep: Inspired by Cloher's powerful matrilineal line of whine Mori, I Am The River, The River Is Me is not urgent, or hurried, but it is vital, made with the care and ease of someone who knows that their past began before birth, and will continue long after they're gone. These are fercely political songs that never feel heavy: They are energetic and full-blooded, alive with the knowledge that to simply exist — to scream and laugh and sing and make art — is as much a form of resistance as to fght.

LP Tracks: Mana Takatpui / Harakeke / My Witch / Being Human / I Am The River, The River Is Me / Protest Song / The Wild / Aroha Mai, Aroha Atu / He Toka-Tu-Moana / I Am Coming Home