Mp3 music: Joan as Police Woman

Artist: Joan as Police Woman: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock     Joan as Police Woman's discography:      Real Life    Year: 2006    Tracks: 10 Described by Joan Wasser as "punk rock john Rock R&B" and "American soul music," Joan as Police Woman unite two of the biggest influences on her music: classical somebody such as Al Green and Nina Simone and the rougher, observational sounds of Sonic Youth and Bad Brains. The desegregate never sounds artificial, thanks to the intuitive interplay of Wasser's vocals, violins, and guitar, Rainy Orteca's basso, and Ben Perowsky's percussion. Wasser, wHO has played with everyone from the Scissor Sisters to Lou Reed, began playing fiddle at age vIII patch attendance form school in Norwalk, CT. At Boston University, she studied fiddle with Yuri Mazurkevich and likewise played with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, and expanded her horizons to rock with local acts including Hot Trix (which featured Autoclave member and Helium founder Mary Timony) and the Dambuilders, which went on to national success. Wasser likewise played with Timony and Shudder to Think's Nathan Larson in Mind Science of the Mind, which released their self-titled album in 1996. The following year, the Dambuilders disbanded and Wasser's swain, Jeff Buckley, drowned incidentally in Memphis, TN. Wasser unbroken on making music, collaborating with the Grifters' Dave Shouse and Buckley's onetime guitar player Michael Tighe in Those Bastard Souls in the late '90s, and then with Tighe in Black Beetle, which folded in the early 2000s. Along with working as a fiddler for hire with artists as diverse as Sheryl Crow, Hal Willner, Rufus Wainwright, and Antony and the Johnsons, Wasser developed her have songwriting, and formed Joan as Police Woman in 2002. She met Perowsky during his stint as drummer for Elysian Fields; like Wasser, he collaborated with many forward-thinking artists, including John Cale, John Zorn, and Roy Ayers. Similarly, Orteca (wHO is likewise a writer, editor program, and graphic designer) has worked with many of New York City's finest, ranging from Antony and the Johnsons to Sarah Silverman to White Magic. Joan as Police Woman released their starting time single, My Gurl, early in 2003, and self-released the Joan as Police Woman EP in 2004. The mathematical group signed to the British tag Reveal, which issued their full-length debut, Real Life, in summertime 2006, along with the Ageless Flame, Christobel, and The Ride singles. Real Life was released in the U.S. in summertime 2007.