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Little Annie

If you get the voice you deserve then smokey central to Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez has earned every blue hued note. Singer, composer, adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, Reverend, rancatoure, actress, self taught painter, multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen, Annie armed with a survivors wonder lust that has followed a jagged torch lit path that has led her to a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career that has defied catagorization, limitation.

Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations ( with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, and Collapsed Lung, Mike Grimes, Larry Tee, Christophe Heeman, Julia Frodahl and Edison Woods, Baby Dee, Eric Hoffmann, Bianca Bob, Christine Donnelly, the late Bill Rice, playwrites Jim Nue and Charles Allcroft, actor/writter/director Keith McDermott, LARSEN and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde.

She has written 3 volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces, and films, and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch Of BOTANICA. She is currently residing in her beloved muse and hometown of New York, after a thirteen year residency in England, where she is adding to her extensive body of work. In 2006 she released ˜Songs from The Coalmine Canary’ produced by Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) on Durtro/Jnana Records which includes her song ‘Strange Love’ which feature by LEVIS in their new ‘Dangerous Liasons’ campaign and which won the bronze award at Cannes in 2007 for best use of music in a commercial. Paul Wallfisch and Annie’s new cd of interpretations/re-works versions of classic and not so classic songs titled ‘When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos’ is out now. After 5 European tours in the last 18 months, they are taking a break to record their new album of original material to be released early 2009.

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