Joan as Police Woman

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Joan Water 2014
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
To survive
  CH 93 06/29/2008 (1 week)
  UK 56 06/21/2008 (1 week)
The Deep Field
  DE 54 04/02/2011 (2 weeks)
  AT 60 04/02/2011 (1 week)
  CH 66 02/06/2011 (3 weeks)
  UK 40 02/05/2011 (1 week)
The Classic
  DE 82 03/21/2014 (1 week)
  AT 70 03/21/2014 (1 week)
  UK 44 03/22/2014 (1 week)
Damned devotion
  DE 78 02/16/2018 (1 week)
  AT 72 02/23/2018 (1 week)
  CH 47 02/18/2018 (1 week)
  UK 57 02/22/2018 (1 week)

Joan as Police Woman is the band project of the singer and violinist Joan Wasser (born July 26, 1970 in Biddeford , Maine ).

Joan Wasser is said to have chosen the name for the project because her acquaintances said she looked like Angie Dickinson ; this enjoyed great popularity as the leading actress in the television series Police Woman (German broadcast from 1988 on Sat.1 under the title Make-up and Pistols ) .

Style and collaboration with other artists

Joan Wasser is a classically trained violinist who studied with Yuri Mazurkevich and initially played in the Boston University Symphony Orchestra. She then switched to indie rock bands as a violinist, where she developed an aggressive style. She was friends with Jeff Buckley . After his death in 1997, she played for a while with musicians from Jeff Buckley's band under the band name Black Beetle . For her own band project she chose the stage name Joan as Police Woman , "so that the audience doesn't expect a solo violin concerto" . The singer and multi-instrumentalist plays the violin, guitar, piano and Wurlitzer. Joan as Police Woman can be classified stylistically as a songwriter soul . She herself describes her music as Punk Rock R&B or American Soul Music. She names Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone as role models . The Guardian called her the Dusty Springfield of indie pop . In addition to her previous bands The Lotus Eaters , The Dambuilders and Those Bastard Souls , Joan Wasser has in the past performed with musicians such as Lou Reed , Tanya Donelly , Sheryl Crow , Sparklehorse , Dave Gahan , Elton John , the Scissor Sisters , Joseph Arthur , the Guillemots , Rufus Wainwright and Antony and the Johnsons worked together live or in the studio.

Her debut EP Joan as Police Woman (2004) and her first album Real Life (2006) were released on Reveal Records .

In June 2008 their second album To Survive was released on Reveal Records and internationally on PIAS Recordings , with David Sylvian and Rufus Wainwright as guests. An album with cover versions under the title Cover was sold live and on its own website.

The following album, entitled The Deep Field , was released on PIAS Recordings in January 2011 . The album The Classic was released in March 2014. Two years later she published Let It Be You (on Reveal Records ) with Benjamin Lazar Davis . Another two years later the record Damned Devotion ( PIAS Recordings ). In 2019 a very extensive compilation of her previous work was published (with 41 songs on three CDs or as a download, again on the PIAS Recordings label ). It contains a retrospective with studio recordings on two CDs, the third CD consists of BBC live recordings. The last song of the studio recordings is a cover version of Prince ' Kiss , which appeared a year later on Cover Two (2020, PIAS / Sweet Police ) with additional cover versions.

Publications

Albums

  • Real Life (2006, CD & Vinyl)
  • Real Life (Special edition 2007, contains bonus CD with the B-sides of the singles)
  • To Survive (2008, CD & Vinyl), UK # 56
  • Cover (2009, available on Live Performances and Reveal Records)
  • The Deep Field (January 21, 2011, CD & Vinyl)
  • The Classic (March 2014, CD & Vinyl)
  • Let It Be You with Benjamin Lazar Davis (2016)
  • Damned Devotion (2018)
  • Joanthology (2019)
  • Cover Two (2020)

EPs

  • Joan as Police Woman (2004, CD & Vinyl)
  • Joan as Police Woman (2006)

Singles

  • My Gurl (2006 - 7 "vinyl)
  • The Ride (2006, CD & 7 "vinyl)
  • Eternal Flame (2006 - CD & 7 "vinyl)
  • Christobel (2006 - Limited Edition CD (1000 copies) & 7 "Vinyl)
  • Flushed Chest (2007, Limited Edition 7 "Vinyl, Download)
  • Real Life (2007 - Limited Edition CD, 1000 copies)
  • To Be Loved (2008 - Limited Edition 7 "Vinyl, Download)
  • Holiday (2008 - Limited Edition 7 "Vinyl, Download)
  • To America (with Rufus Wainwright , 2008 - Download)
  • Start Of My Heart (2009 - Video Single, Download)
  • The Magic (2011)

Sampler contributions

Guest appearances

  • Placebo - MTV Unplugged (Protect Me From What I Want) - 2015

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Nadine Lange: Joan As Police Woman sings of love, sadness and magic. In: “Tagesspiegel”. January 20, 2011, accessed on February 17, 2011 : “Because her name is now too strongly associated with the violin, she calls it Joan As Police Woman. Friends say she is similar to Angie Dickinson, who starred in the television series 'Police Woman' in the 1970s. "
  3. ↑ Discovered: Joan as a Police Woman - The Magic. In: "DRS Virus / news.ch". January 12, 2011, accessed on February 17, 2011 : "Your stage name Joan as a Police Woman is inspired by a TV series from the 1970s about a glamorous and tough police woman."
  4. ↑ [1] Article, The Guardian, July 15, 2008
  5. ↑ [2] Tagesspiegel, January 20, 2011
  6. ↑ Christine Heise in tip 13/2008
personal data
SURNAME Joan as Police Woman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Water, joan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Biddeford , Maine , USA