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JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN,
TONY ALLEN
& DAVE OKUMU
release new
single & video
‘GEOMETRY OF YOU’

Taken from upcoming album THE SOLUTION IS RESTLESS
out NOVEMBER 5 on [PIAS] RECORDINGS

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JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN // Photo credit: Lindsey Byrnes

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Previous praise for JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN

“Sensational” – Sunday Times

“This is breathtakingly good music” – Uncut

“Full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn” – MOJO

“A voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” – The Guardian

“Beautiful” – Q

“The coolest woman in pop” – The Times

“Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians” – The Economist 

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‘Geometry Of You’ is the second single from the forthcoming album The Solution Is Restless written and recorded by Joan As Police Woman with Dave Okumu of The Invisible and legendary drummer Tony Allen shortly before he sadly passed away. It follows the release of lead single ‘Take Me To Your Leader’.

Joan says on the new track, “Geometry Of You is a song about the intersection of math and sensuality. It’s what Tony Allen did every time he sat down to play. It’s about the quantum aspects of life- there is no one way of doing anything- paradox is everywhere.  Finding the flexibility in life is the way I most connect with joy.”

Alongside the release is the ‘Geometry Of You’ video, which was directed and animated by Devin Flynn. The footage of Joan was shot by Ehud Lazin. Devin Flynn’s award-winning videos have been exhibited worldwide from the Liverpool Biennial to MOCA, Los Angeles. His animations have appeared regularly on Wondershowzen on MTV, a web series on Adultswim.com called Y’all So Stupid, and the title sequence for The Aquateen HungerForce Movie. He also co-directed and animated the ‘Parisian Goldfish’ video for Flying Lotus.

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Joan Wasser (aka Joan As Police Woman) followed stints with Anohni’s ensemble (formerly Antony & The Johnsons) and Rufus Wainwright with the release of her debut album in 2006, Real Life – the album won Best Rock and Pop Album, at the Independent Music Awards. Her second album, To Survive, was chosen in 2008, as one of Q Magazine’s, Albums of the Year. Similar praise was heaped on subsequent albums, 2011’s The Deep Field, 2014’s The Classic and perhaps her most rapturously received album to date, 2018’s Damned Devotion.

Over the last two years she has written and recorded with Damon Albarn for the Gorillaz Song Machine album, released her second album of covers (Cover Two) and her first live album, Live. She also appeared on the Afel Bocoum album Lindé (World Circuit). In January 2021 Joan was hired by NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch as a mentor.

Tony Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti’s band Africa ’70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat. Fela once stated that, “without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat” and he was described by Brian Eno as “perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived“. Besides many other musical milestones and collaborations, in recent years Tony teamed up with Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon and Simon Tong to form The Good, the Bad & the Queen.

Dave Okumu is best known for fronting the Mercury Music Prize band The Invisible and more recently announcing the release of a solo album Knopperz due for release in September.

The Solution Is Restless by Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen & Dave Okumu
is out November 5 on [PIAS] Recordings
Pre-order here

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JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN,
Tony Allen & Dave Okumu
The Solution Is Restless

1. The Barbarian  
2. Get My Bearings (feat. Damon Albarn)
3. Take Me To Your Leader  
4. Masquerader  
5. Dinner Date
6. Enter the Dragon  
7. Geometry of You  
8. The Love Has Got Me
9. Perfect Shade of Blue  
10. Reaction 

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