Joan Wasser (born July 26, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who releases music as Joan As Police Woman. She began her career playing violin with
the Dambuilders
The Dambuilders was an indie rock band that began in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, in 1989 and later relocated to Boston. They released seven LPs (six studio albums & one compilation) and a number of EPs before breaking up in 1998. Members have gone o ...
and played with Black Beetle,
Antony and the Johnsons
Antony and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators.
Career
British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Anohni's music through his Durtro label ...
, and
Those Bastard Souls
Those Bastard Souls were an independent rock band formed in 1995 as a solo side project by David Shouse of The Grifters. The name, somewhat of a nod to These Immortal Souls, was one that David Shouse coined as a replacement for A Band Called Bud ...
. Since 2004 she has released her solo material as Joan As Police Woman. She has released five regular studio albums, one EP, a number of singles and two albums of cover songs. Throughout her career, she has regularly collaborated with other artists as a writer, performer and arranger.
Early life
Born at the Saint Andre Home in
Biddeford, Maine
Biddeford is a city in York County, Maine, United States. It is the principal commercial center of York County. Its population was 22,552 at the 2020 census. The twin cities of Saco and Biddeford include the resort communities of Biddeford Poo ...
,
to an unmarried teenage mother, Wasser was placed for adoption at infancy.
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Bernadette McNulty, ''The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'', August 5, 2006 She was raised in
Norwalk, Connecticut
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, with her adoptive younger brother Dan, who is a visual artist. She credits her background as an adopted child with her "very extroverted" personality and dressing up a lot. She explained that "when you are in a situation where you're not blood-related to your family, it does become extremely obvious that you're born with your personality".
[Guy Blackman]
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, ''The Age
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'', September 18, 2006
Wasser began with piano lessons at age six and had her first violin lessons at age eight. She played violin in school and community orchestras before leaving Norwalk for her college studies.
At the age of 18, Wasser began her music career during her studies at the College of Fine Arts,
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
.
She studied music under, among others, Yuri Mazurkevich and played with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra. Wasser soon grew disillusioned and found that she "didn't want to make classical music my life, the
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
symphonies have already been played a million times and I am not going to do it any better".
Instead, she joined a number of local punk bands trying "to bridge the gap between the guitar and the bass and play the violin really loud".
Career
The Dambuilders
In 1991, Wasser joined
the Dambuilders
The Dambuilders was an indie rock band that began in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, in 1989 and later relocated to Boston. They released seven LPs (six studio albums & one compilation) and a number of EPs before breaking up in 1998. Members have gone o ...
who were signed to
Elektra Records
Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1 ...
in 1994.
Wasser featured on three albums as a violinist. The band played a number of shows on the East Coast, and found an admirer in
Colin Greenwood
Colin Charles Greenwood (born 26 June 1969) is an English musician and the bassist for the rock band Radiohead. Along with bass guitar, Greenwood plays Double bass, upright bass and Electronic musical instrument, electronic instruments.
With h ...
of
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass) ...
. On stage, Wasser managed to stand out with "bright costumes and dyed, often dreadlocked hair".
In 1995, the band appeared on Lollapalooza followed by the release of the album ''Ruby Red''.
Wasser augmented her role within the band, adding guitar and keyboard parts, singing vocals, as well as co-writing several songs as found on the album ''
Against the Stars
Against the Stars is the sixth studio album by Boston-based indie rock band the Dambuilders, and their third for a major label. It was released on July 29, 1997 on East West and Elektra Records.
Background and recording
''Against the Stars'' wa ...
''.
Wasser first began to make a name for herself in the indie rock world during her time in The Dambuilders as she developed her aggressive style of playing, which led to work outside the group. Wasser moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1996, while The Dambuilders disbanded in October 1997.
Black Beetle
In May 1997, her boyfriend of three years,
musician
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by ...
,
drowned accidentally in
Memphis
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* Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city
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. She found it "such a traumatic experience of loss. I needed to grieve but I didn't know how".
She continued to play with
Those Bastard Souls
Those Bastard Souls were an independent rock band formed in 1995 as a solo side project by David Shouse of The Grifters. The name, somewhat of a nod to These Immortal Souls, was one that David Shouse coined as a replacement for A Band Called Bud ...
, a band started in 1995 by a close friend of the couple, Dave Shouse of
Grifters. They made a record entitled ''
Debt & Departure
Those Bastard Souls were an independent rock band formed in 1995 as a solo side project by David Shouse of The Grifters. The name, somewhat of a nod to These Immortal Souls, was one that David Shouse coined as a replacement for A Band Called Bud ...
'' attempting to respond to Buckley's death. In late 1997, she created a band with the remaining members of Buckley's band called Black Beetle and finished an eponymous album that was never released. This was the first project where she was writing as well as fronting a band. She commented, "I found singing terrifying at first, I didn't know about the boundaries of my voice and I had no idea what words I wanted to say. The violin had been my voice for so long."
Antony and the Johnsons
In 1999, Joan joined
Antony and the Johnsons
Antony and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators.
Career
British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Anohni's music through his Durtro label ...
, initially as a violinist, but eventually as a full-time member.
She contributed to their
Mercury Prize
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-winning album, ''
I Am a Bird Now
''I Am a Bird Now'' is the second album by New York City band Antony and the Johnsons. It won the Mercury Prize on September 6, 2005. After winning the prize, the album shot up the UK albums chart from #135 to #16 in one week, the biggest jump ...
''. She explained that she "was called up to stand in for another violinist but by the end of the rehearsal (she) was in the band". The experience was "like a renaissance", and she "was surrounded by gentle people and quiet music
..I had a space to let go".
Joan As Police Woman
While working with others, Wasser began to develop her own material, which she described as sounding "like old
Al Green
Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including " Take Me to the River", ...
records".
She focused on guitar and singing as "for a long time, I was really content with playing violin
..and then all of a sudden it wasn't enough".
The end of Black Beetle in June 2002 brought the beginning of Wasser's work as a solo artist and the creation of a new band, Joan as Police Woman. The name was a reference to the TV series ''
Police Woman'' featuring
Angie Dickinson
Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in ''Gun the Man Down'' (1956) wit ...
. Wasser found the actress inspirational as "she was really powerful but sexy at the same time" in the role. She also preferred "the name to be funny because, although my music is serious, I like to laugh at tragedy".
She formed a new trio in New York City together with
Ben Perowsky
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on drums and Rainy Orteca on bass. Perowsky also co-produced the EP that also featured contributions by
Oren Bloedow
Oren Bloedow (born July 3, 1965) is an American singer, guitarist and bassist. He founded the band Elysian Fields in 1995 with Jennifer Charles. His father, Jerry Bloedow, was a playwright, poet, and film editor whose theater, the Hardware Poe ...
,
Dave Derby
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Derby serves as a songwriter and producer foGramercy Arms a New York City musical and artist colle ...
and
Erik Sanko
Erik Sanko (born 27 September 1963) is a bass player from New York who has played in The Lounge Lizards and currently active in Skeleton Key.
Biography
In the past he also worked with notable musicians including Marc Ribot, John Cale, Yoko Ono, Su ...
.
She co-wrote the song "My Gurl" with Michael Tighe. The group self-released a five-track eponymous EP in 2004, as Wasser had "decided to do it without a record deal because I wanted to make music on my own terms".
In February 2004,
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set ...
asked her to join his band on tour providing backing vocals and strings.
In the second half of the year, she joined
Joseph Arthur
Joseph Arthur (born September 28, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. He is best known for his solo material, and as a member of Fistful of Mercy and RNDM. Arthur has built his reputation over the years through c ...
on tour as a violinist.
''Real Life''
In December 2005, Wasser signed a distribution deal with
Reveal Records
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History
The record store was opened by Tom Rose in 1999. The store reached its peak in 2005/2006 when it sold virtually ...
, a British indie label, which subsequently re-released the self-titled debut EP,
while adding one track.
Joan as Police Woman's full-length debut, ''
Real Life
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'', appeared in the UK on June 12, 2006, and through
PIAS in Europe and elsewhere. She embarked on a tour around Europe where she played a mixture of headlining shows and support slots, including the
Guillemots.
The album was eventually released in the USA on June 12, 2007, on Cheap Lullaby Records based in Los Angeles. In early 2008, ''Real Life'' won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Album. The album included three singles, "Christobel", "The Ride", and "Eternal Flame", which was supported by a video directed by
Leah Meyerhoff
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.
''To Survive''
Her second album, ''
To Survive
''To Survive'' is the second album by Joan as Police Woman. It was released on June 9, 2008, on CD, LP and digital download.
The album was released by Reveal Records in the United Kingdom, by Cheap Lullaby in the United States, and by PIAS i ...
'', was released in June 2008 and featured Rufus Wainwright on the song "To America".
The title referred to the loss of her mother to cancer, where she felt encouraged "to talk about it,
oput it into words and get it out there”.
It was recorded with Rainy Orteca and
Parker Kindred
Parker Kindred is an American drummer who played in the band of Jeff Buckley, appearing on his unfinished second album, ''Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk'' in 1997, as well as playing live with Buckley and the rest of his band at Arlene's Gr ...
, an old friend and drummer of her previous band Black Beetle. The album reached No. 43 in
Uncut's review of the year 2008, as well as in
Q Magazine's top 50. Musically it was described as having "dance-floor soul and indie-rock influences".
With Rainy Orteca departing to pursue her own projects, Wasser and Kindred were joined by
Timo Ellis
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In 1997 Ellis and Sean Lennon joined Cibo Matto. As a quartet (Yuka Honda, Miho Hatori, Ellis, ...
on bass guitar for touring in 2008.
At the end of her 2009 European tour, Wasser returned to New York to play a show and release a new album of cover songs, entitled ''
Cover
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''.
''The Deep Field''
In 2011, she released her third album, ''
The Deep Field
''The Deep Field'' is the third regular studio album by Joan as Police Woman, released in 2011.
Critical reception
The album has received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from m ...
''. It contained the singles "The Magic", "Nervous" and "Chemmie".
''The Classic''
On March 10, 2014, Wasser released her fourth album, ''
The Classic'', featuring the single "Holy City", featuring a video filmed by
Alex de Campi
Alex de Campi is a British-American music video director, comics writer and columnist.
Career
Comics
Alex de Campi wrote 2005's mini-series ''Smoke'' (published by IDW Publishing, art by Igor Kordey), which was nominated for the Eisner Award ...
.
''Let It Be You''
In 2016, Wasser collaborated with
Benjamin Lazar Davis
Benjamin Lazar Davis is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, composer and record producer. He is a member of several bands including Okkervil River and Cuddle Magic. Davis attended New England Conservatory of Music.
E ...
and released the album ''Let It Be You'' in October. It was preceded by the single "Broke Me in Two". The album received mixed reviews, with DIY noting it as a "curiously unbalanced album", while AllMusic described it as "a collection of appealingly loose, lush songs full of creativity". The duo followed the release by a UK tour.
''Damned Devotion''
The album ''
Damned Devotion
''Damned Devotion'' is the fifth regular studio album by American musician Joan As Police Woman, released on February 9, 2018 by PIAS Recordings.
Release
On November 2, 2017, Wasser announced the release of her new album, along with the single "W ...
'' was released on February 9, 2018. Emily Mackay, writing for The Guardian, describes Wasser's return to her "characteristically languorous, smoky zone".
Before the album release Wasser released the single ''Tell Me'', with its plea for openness and intimacy. "I am always wanting more intimate dialogue", says Joan Wasser. "Fear of being vulnerable, future tripping and feelings of shame, paranoia and jealousy get in the way. You got to separate now what’s real, what’s not real – stop using jealousy (not real) as a way to avoid having to clarify and tell me what you really want (real). Why don’t we try trusting each other enough to be fully transparent? What is there to lose?"
''Joanthology''
The album ''
Joanthology'' was released on May 24, 2019.
''The Solution Is Restless''
In 2019, Joan Wasser participates to the
Africa Express
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John Baxter is a freewheelin ...
concert of March 29 organized by
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn (; born 23 March 1968) is an English-Icelandic musician, singer-songwriter and composer, best known as the frontman and primary lyricist of the rock band Blur and as the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual ...
. He introduces her to
Tony Allen. Joan Wasser and the latter decide they will write music together someday. They end up doing so in a Paris studio in November of that year with
Dave Okumu
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of
The Invisible. The result of this collaboration is her 9th album, ''The Solution Is Restless'', that comes out in 2021.
Collaborations
Wasser has done considerable session work providing strings and vocals for a number of artists throughout her career. Her resume includes live performances and studio work with
Elton John
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,
Lou Reed
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,
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set ...
,
John Cale
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,
Sheryl Crow
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,
Scissor Sisters
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,
Sparklehorse
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,
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,
Tanya Donelly
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,
Joseph Arthur
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, and
Fan Modine.
She has worked with
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* Nathan Larson (criminal), American white supremacist and convicted felon
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*Nate Larson
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on his side-project, Mind Science of the Mind and ex-
Fishbone
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member Chris Dowd's Seedy Arkhestra album. In the liner notes to an album by the latter, Dowd praised her as a "soulful mothafucka".
In 2006, Wasser contributed backing vocals and violin to the track "Redwings" on Guillemots' debut album ''
Through the Windowpane
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''. She provided vocals and plays the violin on the song "Ballad of a Deadman" alongside
David Sylvian
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on
Steve Jansen's album ''
Slope
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'' which was released in 2007. Wasser was credited for playing piano, violin, and guitar as well as contributing vocals on
Lloyd Cole's 2010 release, ''Broken Record''.
In 2013, she started the band ''2001'' with Benjamin Lazar Davis, which released its first single "Broke Me in Two" in September 2015.
In 2014, she released a track on the Printer Clips album, the side-project of Bell X 1's lead singer Paul Noonan.
Also in 2014, she began to work and perform with Scottish folk outfit
Lau
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* Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
* Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
* LAU (musician): Laura Fares
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, producing their album ''
The Bell That Never Rang
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'', released in May 2015.
In 2015, Joan performed with the English alternative rock band
Placebo
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on their MTV Unplugged session. She sang a duet with vocalist
Brian Molko
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in the song "
Protect Me from What I Want
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".
In 2020, Joan appeared on the
Gorillaz
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song "Simplicity" from their seventh album ''
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez''.
Discography
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Live albums
EPs
* ''Joan as Police Woman'' (self-released 2004 – CD; re-released February 27, 2006)
Singles
Compilation appearances
*2003: ''
Jane
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'' Magazine compilation ("Prime Mover")
*2007: ''
Back to Mine
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'':
Guillemots ("The Ride")
*2008: ''
Mojo
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Presents
The White Album
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Recovered Vol. 1'' ("
I Will
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")
*2012: ''Spirit of Talk Talk'' (Myrrhman)
*2012: ''The Separate - Orchestral Variations V.01'' (This Night Has Opened My Eyes)
*2020: ''
Songs for Australia
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'', performing a cover of
Gotye
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's "
Hearts a Mess
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"
References
External links
Official website*
*
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1970 births
Living people
Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni
People from Biddeford, Maine
Musicians from Norwalk, Connecticut
Singers from Maine
Independent Music Awards winners
21st-century American women singers
Antony and the Johnsons members
The Dambuilders members
21st-century American singers
21st-century American violinists
American adoptees