Joan As Police Woman playing London’s Alexandra Palace on June 15th, 2022 (Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever)
Joan As Police Woman’s European tour is in Norway tonight.
Joan As Police Woman is on the road after the release last last year of The Solution Is Restless, an album whose guests included Damon Albarn and the late Tony Allen.
“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.”
