Acapela Studio is delighted to welcome highly acclaimed American songwriter Joan As Police Woman as she returns to Europe performing key songs from throughout her career alongside new music from her forthcoming album. “Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians” The Economist “The coolest woman in pop ”The Times “a voice so wondrous and moving that makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” The Guardian “This is breathtakingly good music” UNCUT “Full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn ”MOJO Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) was born in Maine USA in July 1970. She was named after Joan of Arc, adopted with her brother at infancy just outside New York City at a time when that city was truly alive with possibilities for those with a creative disposition. As the NYC underground art and music scenes blossomed through Joan’s youth, she fell in love with music very early and began the violin at 8 years old. The young Joan felt music’s power of connection and transcendence, in the same way people do when they speak of God and this has lived in her and the music she makes ever since. She has collaborated with a large and diverse list of musicians including Tony Allen, Damon Albarn, Lou Reed, Hal Willner, Beck, Afel Bocoum, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Sparklehorse, Laurie Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, John Cale, Aldous Harding, Woodkid, Justin Vivian Bond, RZA, Norah Jones, Lau, Doveman, Steven Bernstein, Gorillaz, Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright, Anohni, Nathan Larson, David Byrne and Daniel Johnston and participated in three Africa Express tours. In 2024 Joan released her twelfth studio album, Lemons, Limes, and Orchids which is a crowning showcase of Joan’s voice in all its metamorphic splendour, carried by her piano and strings, complemented by soul superstar Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, Chris Bruce on guitar, Daniel Mintseris on keys, and Parker Kindred and Otto Hauser taking turns on the drums. The record is a nocturne about love and loss — what else is there? — and a reckoning with our collective disorientation, part hymn to holding on and part benediction of letting go.