Joan as Police Woman

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After stepping out of Rufus Wainwright's shadow (once a member of his band), this song on her second album sees them reunited once more. Her soft sensual voice is laid out over a simple, repetitive piano melody. Its simplicity and beauty combined, seductive in its approach, with the power of the track coming oozing out of every word sung. Rufus threatens to steal the show half way through. E...

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  The Ride

I've discovered a number of new (to me) artists over the past year, many due to suggestions from all of you here on MOG. But the past couple of months has been a dry spell for me. However, this morning I stumbled across a group whom I greatly look forward to buying the album of (once I get a job, that is). Joan As Police Woman is downright incredible. Now keep in mind that I have only liste...

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  Start of My Heart

Metropolitan cavewoman soul. That's what I'm calling Joan As Police Woman's performance last night in Tribeca. And it was soul cleansingly beautiful.Frontwoman Joan Wasser sings with the strength of Annie Lennox, the soul of Roberta Flack, and with a primal, expressionist Id fully intact. She is the Virginia Woolf of rock and roll in a 21st century way.Here is a snipit from last night's show:Fr...

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  To America

Birds are shrieking through the trees all over Rushcutter's Bay in Sydney. It is as if something violent and tuneful is going on at once as we sit on a hotel sundeck and take in the riot around us. "Birds are cool," says Joan Wasser in an accent that fairly drips with New York tang, "but your Australian birds, o my god, I've never seen or heard anything like them. I mean, look at that… thing," .

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After stepping out of Rufus Wainwright's shadow (once a member of his band), this song on her second album sees them reunited once more. Her soft sensual voice is laid out over a simple, repetitive piano melody. Its simplicity and beauty combined, seductive in its approach, with the power of the track coming oozing out of every word sung. Rufus threatens to steal the show half way through. E...

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Read a couple of things about her here on MOG. Checked out the album. Bloody marvellous.Hmm. Let's see what she's about then.......google, google, google.OH MY GOD! It's Joan Wasser! It's Jeff Buckley's ex-girlfriend!!!

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