Influential New York musician Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) returns to New Zealand in June 2022 – this time with her band, following her sold out solo tour around Aotearoa in 2019.
Plus1, 95bFM and undertheradar proudly present Joan As Police Woman live in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Dates and venues are:
Wed 8 June: Mayfair Theatre, DUNEDIN
Thurs 9 June: The Piano, CHRISTCHURCH
Fri 10 June: Old St Pauls, WELLINGTON
Sat 11 June: The Hollywood, AUCKLAND
Plus1 and UTR member pre-sale begins 10am today (Monday 8 November) with tickets on general sale via plus1.co.nz at 10am Wednesday 10 November.
What can we expect? Said 13th Floor reviewer Caitlin Smith of Joan’s 2019 Auckland show: “She is the torch bearer… and we all want to be close to that warmth and illumination. As for ‘that voice’: it is exquisitely sensitive, mesmerising, controlled, magnetising, delicate, nuanced and dynamic.”
Despite lockdowns and live music grinding to a halt worldwide over the past two years, Joan has been prolific, releasing three albums since her 2019 Joanthology New Zealand tour; namely, Live (2021), Cover Two (2020) and most recently The Solution Is Restless released digitally Friday November 5 and coming out on LP November 26th, 2021.
The Solution Is Restless is a brand new collaborative album by Joan As Police Woman, Dave Okumu of The Invisible and legendary drummer Tony Allen shortly before he passed away. Damon Albarn also features on the record which was released by PIAS on November 5th 2021, physical release of LP by Rhythmethod is November 26th, 2021.
Joan was invited to Africa Express: The Circus in 2019, where Damon Albarn introduced her to Tony Allen for the first time and they played a version of Nina Simone’s ‘I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free’. That same year she was invited to the Africa Express in Waltham Forest, where Damon Albarn came to see her collaborate. They got on so well, that besides it being the seed where this record started to grow, it also led to Joan lending guest vocals to the Gorillaz‘s track ‘Simplicity‘, off their 2020 album Song Machine album. Dave Okumu and Joan have known each other for a few years and worked together on Pieces Of A Man: The Gil Scott-Heron Project in March 2016. When Joan and Tony decided to record together, she invited her longtime friend to join from London and they ended up improvising all night in a Parisian studio. Then when the world shut down, she used those recordings to write the new record, The Solution Is Restless.
The Solution Is Restless – tracklisting:
by Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu
01.) The Barbarian
02.) Get My Bearings
03.) Take Me to Your Leader
04.) Masquerader
05.) Dinner Date
06.) Enter The Dragon
07.) Geometry Of You
08.) The Love Has Got Me
09.) Perfect Shade of Blue
10.) Reaction
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN
