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MUSIC
HUFFINGTON
11.03.13
Dog Ears: From Gospel to Psych Rock
In which we spotlight music from a diversity of genres and
decades, lending an insider’s ear to what deserves to be heard.
BY THE EVERLASTING PHIL RAMONE AND DANIELLE EVIN
JOAN AS
POLICE WOMAN
Joan As Police Woman is the brainchild
of singer/multi-instrumentalist Joan
Wasser. Born in Biddeford, Maine, Wasser attended Boston University, with a
focus on violin. She built an admirable
rep on Boston’s heavily competitive
music scene during the ’90s. By 2002,
in New York, Wasser formed her trio
with a revolving cast including drummers Ben Perowsky and Parker Kindred
and bassists Rainy Orteca, Timo Ellis
and Tyler Wood. With a near dozen releases to date, the Independent Music
Award recipient has collaborated with
Jeff Buckley, Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons, Elton
John, the Scissor Sisters and Lou Reed,
among others. Download “Start of My
Heart,” from her 2008 pièce de résistance To Survive.
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GENRE: Singer/Songwriter
ARTIST: Joan As Police Woman
SONG: Start of My Heart
ALBUM: To Survive
JEREMY ENIGK
PÄRSON SOUND
Seattle-bred singer/songwriter Jeremy
Enigk, born at the close of the Nixon
era, started making records as frontman of Sunny Day Real Estate by the
early ’90s. When the band went on
hiatus in 1996, Enigk released his first
solo effort, Return of the Frog Queen.
In the aughts, he founded The Fire
Theft and refreshed with Sunny Day
Real Estate co-pilots William Goldsmith and Nate Mendel. Collaborations
include Poor Old Lu, Bare Minimum,
Scott Hunter, Rosie Thomas, Thirty
Ought Six, Jeff Palmer and a 21-piece
orchestra! Credits include the score
for The United States of Leland (unissued) and a collective 10 releases to
date. Get “Sant Feliu de Guixols,” from
Jeremy Enigk’s 2009 set OK Bear.
Pärson Sound is the Swedish psychrock/jazz orchestra founded in 1967
comprising Bo Anders Persson (guitar), Thomas Tidholm (vocals, sax,
flute), Arne Ericsson (cello), Torbjörn
Abelli (