Joan Wasser

...the same name in Derby, run by a fellow called Tom Rose. In 2007, Rose set up the label to release music by Joan Wasser (left), better known as the alt-pop act Joan As Policewoman. The label has been growing ever since and their roster now...

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...assemblage that combines jazz and trip-hop, with guest vocals from such luminaries as Miho Hatori, Bebel Gilberto, and Joan Wasser of Joan as Police Woman (another frequent Perowsky collaborator). Those vocals were added last, and in a...

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...piano keys. Radio static. Bowed strings. A slow, insistent drum beat. A whispered chant. A lovely female voice enters - it belongs to Joan Wasser - and weaves around the rhythm. An electric piano digs out a groove. A muted trumpet blows...

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...tour, as well as contributing backing vocals and violin to the track "Redwings" on their debut album Through the Windowpane. Joan Wasser provides vocals and plays the violin on the song' Ballad of a Deadman' alongside David Sylvian on Steve...

In this article: Dambuilders, Antony and the Johnsons, Jeff Buckley, Parker Kindred, Guillemots, Rufus Wainwright, Nathan Larson, and Through the Windowpane

From backing musician to arresting performer Wednesday, 17 December 2008 At the moment Joan Wasser strides onstage, it's hard to picture her a few years ago, in the shadow of Antony Hegarty and Rufus Wainwright, for whom she was a...

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...Content. Text Version. As Police Woman, Joan knows how to get her sound `Learning to sing was my way of growing up'... Joan Wasser, aka Joan As Police Woman, on her path to the microphone. WHEN Joan Wasser played violin in bands, she was...

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To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Album review: Joan as Police Woman Published Date: 22 June 2008 Joan Wasser studied piano, violin and guitar as a child, performed and recorded in various line-ups...

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This is only the second date of Joan Wasser's latest European tour, and she confesses she has "nervous bumps" about the whole experience. This gig will have taught her two things, though. The first, by her own admission, is that "before we...

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...Joan as Police Woman and you'll find references to the singer's heady "punk R&B" or "indie soul." Watching Joan (a.k.a. Joan Wasser) at Iota on Thursday night made it clear those notions are so much lazy online prattle. Sure, songs...

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...speedier delivery and a Latin-flavored beat, but his base message about the solitude of the human condition remains. Like Bird, Joan Wasser creates stunning violin soundscapes. But with "Real Life," she showcases her soulful voice in...

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