Sensational - Sunday Times

This is breathtakingly good music - Uncut

full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn - Mojo

a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane -
The Guardian

Beautiful - Q

The coolest woman in pop - The Times

Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians - The Economist

Joan Wasser aka JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns to the fray with a new single, "Take Me To Your Leader’" an impassioned call to arms from a unique and supremely gifted musician.

"Take Me To Your Leader" is the first taste of the album The Solution Is Restless written and recorded with Dave Okumu of The Invisible and legendary drummer Tony Allen shortly before he sadly passed away.

On 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 dream world, 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 know I’m down to obey/ and don’t we need a break in the chaos”

In a year when most of the world pressed pause, Joan has been making and releasing new music. She wrote and recorded with Damon Albarn for the Gorillaz Song Machine album - listen to "Simplicity" HERE - released her second album of covers (Cover Two) and her first live album, Live. She also appeared on the Afel Bocoum album Lindé (World Circuit).

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.

Joan As Police Woman has rescheduled a world tour for March and April 2022. Joan will perform with her trio including Parker Kindred (Antony & The Johnsons / Jeff Buckley)

LISTEN TO "TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER"
https://ffm.to/take_me_to_your_leader

PRE-SAVE THE SOLUTION IS RESTLESS
https://ffm.to/the_solution_is_restless

TOUR TICKETS BELOW

29.3.22 Union Chapel London
30.3.22 St George's Church Brighton
31.3.22 Komedia Bath
1.4.22 Junction Cambridge
3.4.22 The Wardrobe Leeds
4.4.22 King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Glasgow
5.4.22 The Black Box Belfast
7.4.22 Róisín Dubh Galway
8.4.22 Dolans Warehouse Limerick
9.4.22 St. Lukes Cork
10.4.22 Pepper Canister Church Dublin
11.4.22 Pepper Canister Church Dublin