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Joan As Police Woman

Real Life Evolution - 2026 Reissue

Ten reimagined versions of every song from Joan As Police Woman's 'Real Life' album (Reveal Records 2006). Twenty years in the making. Developed through countless nights on stage, these new arrangements are brought to life by the musical brilliance of the players who helped define their sound.Some transformations are subtle. Others are seismic. All of them were made with an entirely new cast of collaborators. In order of appearance: Will Graefe, Jeremy Gustin, Tony Scherr, Parker Kindred , Danny Blume, Krystle Warren, Oren Bloedow, Thomas Bartlett and Iggy Pop.

Joan Wasser, known professionally as Joan As Police Woman, is a critically acclaimed New York-based artist. As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist she defies easy categorisation, crafting her own sound that blends various genres. She has released ten albums of original material, two cover albums, and an anthology. Beyond her solo career, Wasser is a sought-after collaborator. She's a member of Iggy Pop's touring band and performs with Damon Albarn's Africa Express. Her collaborative spirit has led her to work with Tony Allen, Lou Reed, Anohni & The Johnsons, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rufus Wainwright, John Cale, David Byrne and many other notable musicians around the world.

TRACK LISTING

1. Anyone
2. Flushed Chest
3. The Ride
4. I Defy (featuring Krystle Warren)
5. Feed The Light
6. Christobel
7. Save Me (featuring Iggy Pop) 
8. We Don't Own It
9. Eternal Flame
10. Real Life

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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