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It looks a bit as if Joan Wasser alias Joan As Police Woman always stood a little back behind the front row of American musicians such as St. Vincent, Cat Power, Jenny Lewis or Fiona Apple. Your smart between R&B and Punk-Gestus, Soul Ballad and Avant Pop, Jazz and Radi-communicating panels may not sound as pretentious as some colleagues. Perhaps you are a trace too ethereal, too sensual and subtle, where others come out with experimental roar and large pose. The artist from the US state may have simply grown up too after the turbulent 90s, in order to push herself to the edge of the stage in a rather late solo career.
And yes, maybe that’s all too much kitchen psychological coffee grounds.
What is certain is that after studying art and music in Boston, after the wonderful indie rock bands The Dambuilders and Those Bastard Souls, where she had played violin and sung in the background, after the tragic death of her fiance Jeff Buckley in 1997 and for a few years at Antony and The Johnson’s, an impressive musical manuscript. Under the pseudonym Joan As Police Woman, a number of small masterpieces such as “Real Life” (2006), “The Deep Field” (2011) and “Damned Devotion” (2018) have been released, which interweave and transcend their inspiration sources from Joni Mitchell to Prince and Rufus Wainwright.
One focus of the appearance at the Rolling Stone Beach is likely to lie on the Somnambul and lasciviously pulsating pieces of their last album “Lemons, Limes and Orchids” (2024). But Joan Wasser & Band are always fantastic live, no matter what you play.
Joan As Police Woman appear on the festival Saturday. You can find more information about the Rolling Stone Beach here.