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BIOGRAPHY

Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch have spent 2007 bringing sold-out audiences to tears from Athens to Copenhagen - with stops at the Donau Festival and supporting Marc Almond in Barcelona along the way. First performing together at Joe’s Pub in 2001 with an enraptured Dr. John, sitting front and center, asking 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, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Finitribe, Collapsed Lung, Christoph Heeman and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae and hip hop to torch songs and the avant garde. She has written three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theatre pieces and films and continues to tour extensively. She is 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 Antony and The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Jnana Records. When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos sees Little Annie’s collaborations with Paul Wallfisch finally put on record.

Paul Wallfisch serves as the leader of the smart and 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 the 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.