Jennifer Turner
Quick Facts
Biography
Jennifer "Jen" Turner (born) is a singer/songwriter musician and producer.
Career
1991–1997: Session and touring guitar player
She first became popular for her work and touring with Natalie Merchant on her album Tigerlily as guitarist and backing vocalistalongside Peter Yanowitz on drums and Barrie Maguire on bass guitar.
1997–2007: Lead Singer
In 1997 she formed the band Furslide alongside bassist Jason Lader, and drummer Adam MacDougalland released their Album Adventurein London's Metropolis, Olympic and Abbey Road studios.
Jennifer Turner broke from Virgin to form an independent record label, Caboose Music. In 2001, using Inner as alias she released two records on her own independent record label. Inner's first release was the EP Dog Demos followed by the full length album Lovetheonlyway the year after
2007–Present: Band Member, Producer and Engineer
Through the middle of the 2000's she kept a lower profile mostly working in bands but not as frontperson.Starting 2006 she worked with Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts, and joined Here we go magic playing bass and keyboard. Turner produced and engineered the bands 2010 Album Pigeons and 2011 The January EP. The same year Jennifer Turner and Henrietta Tiefenthaler, both having a faible for Krautrock founded Thrillionaire- with Joey Waronker, Cedric LeMoyne and Marius de Vries taking part. In 2012 she formed Exclamation Pony- consisting of Ryan Jarman as lead guitarist & vocalist and Jen Turner on bass & vocals.In 2015 Taylor McLam (drums, vocals) and Chris Traynor (Guitar, Vocals) started working on some music together. Jen Turner (guitar, vocals), Gabriella Da Silva (Vocals), Drew Broadrick (Piano, Vocals) and Sibyl Buck (Bass, Vocals) joined in, forming High Desert Fires.They released their first EP in 2015. Also in 2015 she joined the lineup of The Lemonheads for several shows.
Discography
- Furslide
- Adventure (1998)
- Inner
- thedogdemos EP (2001)
- lovetheonlyway (2002)
- Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts
- Let's Just Be (2007)
- Temporary People (2008)
- Here we go magic
- Pigeons (2009), also engineer, producer
- The January EP (2011), also engineer, producer
- A Different Ship (2012)
- Thrillionaire
- Wie geht's, Single (2013)
- Exclamation Pony
- Pseudo Individual/Mazes, Single (2013)
- High Desert Fires
- Light Is The Revelation, EP (2015)
Collaborations/Producer/Engineer
- Nathalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995), guitar, backing vocals
- Perry Farrell - Song Yet to Be Sung (2001), guitar
- Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (2008), vocals
- Joseph Arthur - Could We Survive (2008), vocals, and songwriting
- Joseph Arthur - Crazy Rain (2008), vocals, and songwriting
- Teddy Thompson - A Piece of What You Need (2008), backing vocals
- Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young (2009), guitar
- Setting Sun - Fantasurreal (2010), bass, vocals
- Noah & The Whale - Last Night On Earth (2011), backing vocals
- TEEN - In Limbo (2012), engineer, contribution of vocals, drums and drum loops
- Setting Sun - Be Here When You Get There (2014), bass
- Katie Burden - My Blind Eye EP, 2014, bass, guitar, songwriting
- Swans – The Glowing Man (2016), engineer
- American Anyman - Start My Center (2016), producer, keyboard, electric guitar
- Katie Burden - Strange Moon (2016), bass, guitar, wurlitzer, mellotron, songwriting