Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch

Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch

Genres: dark cabaret, cabaret, lounge, jazz, piano

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About Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch

Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch have spent the last nine years bringing sold-out audiences to tears from A to Z - that's Athens to Zurich, darling - with a stop at for a residency at Wilton Music Hall in London with Marc Almond along the way. First performing together at Joe’s Pub in 2001 with an enraptured Dr. John sitting front and centre, (he asked the diva out for a date after the show), the duo have since spent many years touring together. Little Annie - aka Annie Anxiety - aka Annie Bandez, who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, has been "real" ever since. She is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school dropout, juvenile delinquent, self-taught painter, multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law. Annie’s solo LPs and numerous collaborations (with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound Stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Bim Sherman, Coil, Finitribe, Collapsed Lung, Christoph Heeman, Anthony Hegarty, Marc Almond and many fine others) span the spectrum from punk to disco, hip hop to torch songs and reggae/dub to the avant garde. She has written three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theatre pieces and films and continues to tour extensively. Currently residing in her beloved muse and hometown of New York after a thirteen year residency in England, where she recorded 2007’s successful Songs From The Coal Mine Canary, produced by Antony (of The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Jnana/Southern. "Strange Love" from that album was chosen by Levi's to relaunch their "theatrical" advertising campaigns. When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos followed and saw the creative relationship between Annie’s with Paul Wallfisch finally made legit and put on record. Paul Wallfisch serves as the leader of the decadent alternative rock band, Botanica, named after those mysterious little shops that stock strange spells and a myriad of religious artifacts. The songwriter moved to New York City, where the core of Botanica changed to Oren Kaplan (Firewater) on guitar and the rhythm section of Matt Flynn and Christian Bongers (drums and bass, respectively), bringing a powerful muscularity to their dark songs. Wallfisch is a very active fellow, lending his talents to a variety of projects including Tod A.’s klezmer/punk band Firewater and providing torch singer Sally Norvell with some expert ivory tinkling. He has produced tracks for Love And Rockets and Gene Loves Jezebel and collaborated with the likes of Friends Of Dean Martinez and Stiv Bators. Botanica’s music has been featured in the films Men Cry Bullets and The Takedown, as well as Greg Pritikin’s Dummy (Wallfisch also provided the score), starring Milla Jovovich, Adrien Brody, and Illeana Douglas. A version of the band, with Jovovich singing, appears in the film as the Botanica Bulgar Ensemble. In 2010 Annie and Paul give birth to their second baby, the album Genderful. Genderful somehow manages to perfectly mix soul songs and chansons, bluesy saloon singing and European cabaret styling into a gorgeous, new amalgam. Dig the gentle groove and the sad strings of "Suitcase Full of Secrets", and the fluttering, art-house-cinema-soundtrack glamour of "Because You're Gone Song". "Regret", "Carried Away" and "In The Bar Womb" would make Jacques Brel and/or Serge Gainsbourg proud. "Zen Zexy Zage", "Cutesy Bootsies" and "Adrianna" are brilliant little three penny operas for this post-gentrification/monetary meltdown epoch. Then there are subtle epics like "Billy Martin's Requiem"- a tough, groovy bit of NYC-back-in-the-day-free-association that mixes the ill-fated Yankees manager, the post-punk scene and all the brilliant men lost to AIDS in one smart, seamless package, and "Tomorrow Will Be", a shimmering, resplendent prayer to life with Annie as a knowing urban/urbane/earth mother. Genderful is sentiment without sentimentality, inspiration without bombast, a collection of songs thick with pain and wit and joy. A perfect reflection of Annie herself.... See you on the other side of heartache.

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