Better known to many as Joan As Police Woman, Joan Wasser has long been pushing the boundaries of her sound. Over the decades, Wasser has collaborated with a diverse list of artists, including Lou Reed, Beck, Laurie Anderson, John Cale, and our own Aldous Harding.
Her most recent album, The Solution is Restless, was built from the bones of a night-long jam session in Paris in 2019 with guitarist Dave Okumu and legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen - the man Brian Eno once called "the world's greatest drummer". Sadly, Allen died from an aortic aneurysm shortly after.
Wasser spent most of lockdown refining and sculpting those raw recordings to produce a jazz-infused record that she is now touring, including three shows on our shores next week.
