Joan As Police Woman (Solo)

A crowning showcase of Joan's artistry in all its metamorphic splendor, her new album sees Joan venture deeper into her jazz influences with further affectations associated with electronic and ambient music.

 

Over the course of Joan’s illustrious 3-decade career, she’s made more than considerable strides building her pedigree as a live act. Performing with and alongside luminaries like Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Damon Albarn, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, Anohni, Beck, Toshi Reagon and most notably the late Jeff Buckley, who she has affectionately referred to as her soulmate. When not touring and recording, Joan also teaches at NYU’s prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Earlier in 2024, Joan joined Iggy Pop’s touring band as a keyboardist and background vocalist.

 

 

‘Lemons, Limes & Orchids’ will mark Joan As Police Woman’s first project since the 2021 release of ‘The Solution Is Restless’; the sprawling collaborative album made with the late Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen and multi-disciplinary artist Dave Okumu. Sonically spanning afrobeat, jazz, trip-hop, pop-rock and funk, upon its release the album garnered rapturous critical acclaim from The Guardian, NPR, NME, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, CLASH and Rolling Stone Australia. Eventually parlaying into more plaudits from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and an invitation to play All Points East Festival with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

 

The album features production and instrumentation from an impressive list of collaborators. The accomplished personnel includes the legendary and GRAMMY-Award winning Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, Chris Bruce (Seal, Trevor Horn, Alanis Morisette) on guitar, Daniel Mintseris (St. Vincent, David Byrne, Elvis Costello & The Imposters) on keys, and Parker Kindred (Jeff Buckley, Liam Gallagher) and Otto Hauser alternating on drums. 

Lemons, Limes & Orchids out now on via Play It Again Sam

 

“A voice so wondrous and moving that makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” The Guardian

 

 

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