JOHANNA WARREN
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Johanna Warren seems to make art like her life depends on it. Since self-releasing her debut solo album Fates in 2013 she has barely stopped touring, performing alongside artists including Mitski, Iron & Wine, and Julie Byrne. Her 2015 sophomore album nūmūn propelled her to the forefront of artists to watch, with Rolling Stone naming her an “Artist You Need to Know” and Stereogum citing her as a best of that year. In 2016 Warren founded Spirit House Records, an independent label focusing on free-spirited female and noninary artists. The same year she announced a pair of “twin” albums: Gemini I and II. The two LPs are in conversation with one another, offering glimpses of a passionately dysfunctional relationship—perhaps between two warring parts of the artist herself.
Following the release of Gemini II Warren embarked on her extensive “Plant Medicine Tour” around the US. At every one of the 70+ shows, she welcomed local herbalists, farmers, and activists to share their work with attendees. In the spare moments between tour stops, Warren recorded her fifth solo album, Chaotic Good, at thirteen different studios around the US. It was released on Wax Nine/Carpark Records in 2020 to critical acclaim. She released her sixth album Lessons for Mutants on Wax Nine/Carpark Records in 2022. In addition to music, Warren has a love for acting, theatre and filmmaking. In October 2021, she premiered selected songs from a new musical adaptation of Euripides’ ancient tragedy The Bacchae, in which she plays both Pentheus and his mother Agave. She recently starred in independent feature She the Creator (Bioluminescent Films) and lent her voice to Netflix series The Midnight Gospel. She currently lives in rural Wales and spends most of her time foraging and fermenting wild plants.         |
Press
"A minutely examined and revelatory emotional upheaval, a view of a failed romance sung with meditative grace" - The New York Times |
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Johanna Warren
Rockfield Sessions Vol. I & II (ASREC0020LP) |
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