Critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Joan As Police Woman today released her 10th studio album, Lemons, Limes & Orchids, via Play It Again Sam. The record explores love and loss at its core and functions as a nocturne for the expansion of time.
A crowning showcase of Joan’s artistry in all its metamorphic splendour, the new album sees Joan venture deeper into her jazz influences with further affectations associated with electronic and ambient music. Featuring production and instrumentation from an impressive list of collaborators, the accomplished personnel includes the legendary and GRAMMY-Award-winning Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, Chris Bruce (Seal, Trevor Horn, Alanis Morisette) on guitar, Daniel Mintseris (St. Vincent, David Byrne,Elvis Costello & The Imposters) on keys, and Parker Kindred (Jeff Buckley, Liam Gallagher) and Otto Hauser alternating on drums.
Alongside the album launch, Joan today shares a new music video for focus track “Remember The Voice,” of which she says:
“This is about memory and how psychedelic it can be. Throughout a day, I might remember flashes of scenery, of someone saying something and the very specific look in their eye, of the feeling of a street corner. Living in the chaos of NYC, spending much of my life on tour, memory feels like a giant tangle of infinitely vast colored strings splaying out like the milky way. Recently I experienced the tangle seem to whip itself into a perfectly shaped ball, as if watching a film run in reverse. All the sounds and smells, flashes and blips found their way to their place in the puzzle. The fleeting feeling of something, anything, making sense is a great joy I hang onto by memorializing it in a song.”
Lemons, Limes & Orchids will mark Joan As Police Woman’s first project since the 2021 release of The Solution Is Restless, the sprawling collaborative album made with the late Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen and multi-disciplinary artist Dave Okumu.
Throughout Joan’s illustrious 3-decade career, she’s made more than considerable strides in building her pedigree as a live act. Performing with and alongside luminaries like Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Damon Albarn, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, Anohni, Beck, Toshi Reagon and most notably the late Jeff Buckley, who she has affectionately referred to as her soulmate. Joan also teaches at NYU’s prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music when not touring and recording.
Earlier this year, Joan joined Iggy Pop’s touring band as a keyboardist and background vocalist. In October, she’ll embark on her own European headline tour, followed by a Big Ears Festival 2025 performance in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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