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So I guess she is sort of like Anne Magnusen - huge to me in my little world, but unknown outside musical circles. I do know that she is highly respected by all sorts of players and is no joke by any standard.
I was in DC a few years back and mentioned her to a Russian choir director I know from the Bay Area, whose arty teen daughter was taking up harp. I showed a video of Joanna to them and my friend the choir director said, "Oh. She's a genius." Russians know when they see prodigious musical talent.

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What really blows my mind about Joanna is how many times she changes the tempo or even the time signature in a song. You always see her giving clear nods to her drummer indicating where the time is headed. This caused Van Dykes Park lots of trouble when he recorded the orchestra for Ys. Paraphrasing, as it has been years since I read the interview... but he called Joanna one of the most difficult people he has ever worked with, not because of her attitude, but because she knew exactly what she wanted and it stretched his musical comfort zone.

I like the way her music requires her voice to follow very extended lines across a wide range, pushing her voice to its limits, because the melody's demands are pulling her musicianship rather than a limited musicianship culling the musical aspiration. This is the crux of the uncoolness I mentioned earlier. She carries a burden of vision, musical and lyrical. image

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Bingo! The melodies are, in many cases, not something you'd hear in modern western pop music. Her melodies are more in line with what you'd except a soloist to be playing. Abstract and with a sense of invention and flourishes that turn ordinary words into song within themselves; expressing more with a word than most music conveys in an entire song.

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