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CMU Approved
Approved: Joana And The Wolf
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 17 March 2011
There are two versions of Joana Glaza’s story. The first is that she went into a forest one night and asked a wolf to teach her to sing. The wolf obliged by jumping into her mouth and burrowing down inside her, where it remains to this day. I think that one’s possibly made up. The second version is that she moved to London from her native Lithuania, discovered a world of Western music that was less available in her home country, and fell in love.
Later she formed Joana And The Wolf and began gigging around London, bringing her to the attention of Kasabian, who invited her to provide guest vocals on their 2006 single, ‘Empire’. Since then, Joana’s band have released a number of well-received singles themselves. Their latest, ‘Hide Me’, is due for release on 3 May, and follows a string of increasingly high profile gigs, including a headline set at Club NME in London’s Koko. ‘Hide Me’ is a hint at what you might find at one of those shows, an anthemic rock song with a circular guitar riff and driving drums that build underneath Joana’s arresting voice over three and a half minutes.
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