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Joan As Police Woman

Lemons, Limes And Orchids

    The twelfth of her studio albums, 'Lemons, Limes, and Orchids' is a crowning showcase of Joan's voice in all its metamorphic splendour.

    “I was ready to make an album that truly featured my voice. The basics were recorded like they used to be- with me singing live along with the band. My good friend said told me this is the sexiest album I’ve ever made. Honestly, I think she’s right.”

    The record is a nocturne about love and loss — what else is there? — and a reckoning with our collective disorientation, part hymn to holding on and part benediction of letting go.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. The Dream
    2. Full-Time Heist
    3. Back Again
    4. With Hope In My Breath
    5. Long For Ruin
    6. Started Off Free
    7. Remember The Voice
    8. Oh Joan
    9. Lemons, Limes And Orchids
    10. Tribute To Holding On
    11. Safe To Say
    12. Help Is On It’s Way

    Joan As Police Woman & Tony Allen & Dave Okumu

    The Solution Is Restless

      Of the album Joan Wasser says :
      Damon Albarn introduced me to Afrobeat legend, Tony Allen, at the March 2019 Africa Express event “The Circus” and we hit it off. Tony and I played a version of Nina Simone's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" and decided to record together. I asked my old friend and fierce musician, Dave Okumu, to join from London and that November, in a Parisian studio, we improvised all night. When the world shut down, I used those recordings to write a record entitled “The Solution Is Restless”. This first single, “Take Me To Your Leader”, is the most incendiary on the new record. I wrote it watching Jacinda Ardern, PM of New Zealand, navigate 2020. In my dreamworld, the US asks to meet her in order to learn how to better run the country. “Take me to your leader/ ‘cause I’m ready to play/ can’t hold my breath any longer/ word on the street is she’s a healer/ I’m know I’m down to obey/ and don’t we need a break in the chaos”

      Tony Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti’s band Africa '70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat. Fela once stated that, "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat” and he was described by Brian Eno as "perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived". Besides many other musical milestones and collaborations, in recent years Tony teamed up with Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon and Simon Tong to form The Good, the Bad & the Queen.

      Dave Okumu is best known for fronting the Mercury Music Prize band The Invisible and more recently announcing the release of a solo album ‘Knopperz’ due for release in September.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. The Barbarian
      2. Get My Bearings (feat. Damon Albarn)
      3. Take Me To Your Leader
      4. Masquerader
      5. Dinner Date
      6. Enter The Dragon
      7. Geometry Of You
      8. The Love Has Got Me
      9. Perfect Shade Of Blue
      10. Reaction 

      Joan As Police Woman

      Live

        The new album from Joan As Police Woman with her incredible band, captured live in the studio in New York documenting their 2018 ‘Damned Devotion’ world tour. In a year when most of the world pressed ‘Pause’ Joan has guested on the new Gorillaz album, released her second album of covers (‘Cover Two’), written a new studio album (expected in late 2021) and finished work on ‘Live'.

        Recorded live at Faraway Jazz Studios New York at the end of 2018 and mixed during lockdown, this is an oft-requested, long-awaited chance to hear Joan As Police Woman and her amazing band in all their free, live expansive glory.

        Joan Wasser: “Between the time ‘Damned Devotion’ was released on Feb 14th 2018 and when we recorded the live album on November 27th, 2018 we had been on the road for a good six months. The show we presented at the first gig in Istanbul was very different from the hometown show we played in NYC upon our return. Music is a living thing that grows and morphs and fills each new space like water. This album is the record of this progression. Parker Kindred, Jacob Silver, Eric Lane and I love playing together. This fact is clear if you’ve had the chance to catch us live. Over time, we developed a trust and dedication to creating music in the moment and rolling with it as it finds new expression. Each night felt like taking a new path through an enchanted forest.

        “After we’d slept off a bit of jet lag, we assembled at Robin Macmillan’s Faraway Jazz Studios. We were fortunate to be Robin’s final session due to the everchanging whims of Brooklyn landlords. We recorded our 17-song set straight through without pause. While we didn’t have our fans there to catch it in real time, we played like it was our final show of the year, which it was.

        “When lockdown happened in March 2020, I rode my bike each day to Trout Recording to meet the house engineer, Adam Sachs, to mix the record. Working with these tracks, which felt so full of life, helped us get through that time. I am forever grateful to Adam for his incredible focus and dedication to the music. I’ve been asked many times to make a live album. HERE IT IS. I hope you enjoy as much as we enjoyed making it.”

        TRACK LISTING

        Wonderful
        Warning Bell
        Tell Me
        Eternal Flame
        Damned Devotion
        Start Of My Heart
        What Was It Like
        Valid Jagger
        Rely On
        I Defy
        Steed
        Talk About It Later
        Silly Me
        Run For Love
        The Silence
        The Magic
        Kiss (Prince)

        Joan As Police Woman

        Cover Two

          Wildly acclaimed Brooklyn songwriter Joan As Police Woman returns with her new album “Cover Two”. This is Joan’s second album re-working songs by other artists and again, Joan makes some very interesting choices. 

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Kiss (Prince)
          2. Spread (Outkast)
          3. Under Control (The Strokes)
          4. Not The Way (Cass McCombs)
          5. I Keep Forgettin’ (Michael Macdonald)
          6. Life’s What You Make It (Talk Talk)
          7. Out Of Time (Blur)
          8. On The Beach (Neil Young)
          9. There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Warren Casey And Jim Jacobs)
          10. Running (Gil Scott-Heron) 

          Joan As Police Woman

          To Survive - Deluxe Coloured Vinyl Edition

            ‘To Survive’ (2008) is reissued on sun / gold transparent vinyl and features the classic tracks ‘To America’ featuring Rufus Wainwright and ‘Honor Wishes’ featuring David Sylvian.

            TRACK LISTING

            Honor Wishes
            Holiday
            To Be Loved
            To Be Lonely
            Magpies
            Start Of My Heart
            Hard White Wall
            Furious
            To Survive
            To America

            Joan As Police Woman

            Joanthology / Live At The BBC

              Joan Wasser’s first ever career retrospective, spanning the first fifteen years of her remarkable musical output.

              Includes new, rare and unreleased material alongside more than thirty of her most loved songs.

              Includes two brand new recordings - ‘What A World’ and ‘Kiss’, a cover of the Prince classic and live favourite.

              Features her best-loved songs ‘I Defy’ (featuring Antony), ‘To America’ (featuring Rufus Wainwright) and ‘Honor Wishes’ (featuring David Sylvian).

              Released as a great value deluxe triple CD set including ‘Live At The BBC’. 

              ‘Live At The BBC’ presents a collection of songs recorded in session for BBC 6 Music.

              TRACK LISTING

              CD1
              My Gurl
              The Ride
              Real Life
              Eternal Flame
              I Defy (ft Antony)
              We Don’t Own It
              Christobel
              Honor Wishes (ft David
              Sylvian)
              Hard White Wall
              Start Of My Heart
              To America (ft Rufus
              Wainwright)
              To Be Lonely
              The Magic
              Human Condition
              Run For Love
              Forever And A Year

              CD2
              What A World
              Flash
              Whatever You Like
              Holy City
              Get Direct
              Good Together
              Your Song
              Myrrhman (TALK TALK)
              Broke Me In Two
              Valid Jagger
              Steed
              Tell Me
              Silly Me
              Warning Bell
              Kiss

              CD3
              ‘Live At The BBC’
              To Be Loved
              Start Of My Heart
              Human Condition
              She Watch Channel Zero
              Sacred Trickster
              Holy City
              The Classic
              Magic Lamp
              Let It Be You
              The Silence
              Damned Devotion
              Steed

              Joan As Police Woman

              Live At The BBC

                Live At The BBC’ presents a collection of songs recorded in session for BBC 6 Music.

                TRACK LISTING

                To Be Loved
                Start Of My Heart
                Human Condition
                She Watch Channel Zero
                Sacred Trickster
                Holy City
                The Classic
                Magic Lamp
                Let It Be You
                The Silence
                Damned Devotion
                Steed

                Joan As Police Woman

                Damned Devotion

                  Brand new album from Joan As Police Woman, which sees a return to the darker, sensual sound of her celebrated early releases. Damned Devotion finds Joan Wasser at her rawest yet

                  The first track to be shared from the album is ‘Warning Bell’, a tender, bewitching song of regret Joan wrote about “being a romantic and the naiveté that goes along with it”


                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Barry says: Smooth, soulful grooves interspersed with mournful minor-key melodies and flickering funked-out guitar echoes. By far the most refined and emotive JAPW outing yet, lovely stuff.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Wonderful
                  2. Warning Bell
                  3. Tell Me
                  4. Steed (for Jean Genet)
                  5. Damned Devotion
                  6. The Silence
                  7. Valid Jagger
                  8. Rely On
                  9. What Was It Like
                  10. Talk About It Later
                  11. Silly Me
                  12. I Don’t Mind

                  Joan As Police Woman & Benjamin Lazar Davis

                  Let It Be You

                    A true collaboration from studio to stage, from two artists well known for their ability to effortlessly cross musical genres. A deeply soulful artist Joan has famously worked with Antony (Anohni), Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed and David Sylvian and Benjamin is talented multi-instrumentalist who currently performs with Okkervil River, Cuddle Magic and Bridget Kearney.

                    The album will be preceded by a single on September 30th - 'Broke Me In Two' -with a video featuring not only Joan and Benjamin but also Fred Armisen famous for his comedy roles in Saturday Night Live, Portlandia and Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, amongst many others.

                    Joan and Ben met each other after separate trips to Africa. Ethiopia for Joan as part of Damon Albarn's Africa Express, and West Africa for Lazar to study traditional music. They initially bonded over Central African Republic Pygmy musical patterns and ended up writing this album together loosely inspired by this music. In Broke Me In Two you can hear this influence in the staccato bit-crushed guitar line that plays throughout. But ultimately it's a joyous, love-soaked pop song.


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