Tony Allen, Dave Okumu feature on new Joan As Police Woman single Take Me To Your Leader


Joan As Police Woman by Giles Clement

Joan As Police Woman by Giles Clement




It’s taken from the forthcoming Joan As Police Woman album The Solution Is Restless.

The late, great Tony Allen and Dave Okumu of The Invisible both feature on Joan As Police Woman‘s new single Take Me To Your Leader.

“Damon Albarn introduced me to Afrobeat legend, Tony Allen, at the March 2019 Africa Express event ‘The Circus’ and we hit it off,” Joan Wasser AKA says.

“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’.”

The Solution Is Restless tracklist:

The Barbarian
Get My Bearings (ft. Damon Albarn)
Take Me To Your Leader
Masquerader
Dinner Date
Enter The Dragon
Geometry Of You
The Love Has Got Me
Perfect Shade Of Blue
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