Little Annie

Little Annie (actually, Anne Bandez, also known under the pseudonym Annie Anxiety ) is an American singer, painter and stage actress. In addition to her own recordings Bandez is known for her many contributions to the work of very different avant-garde musicians since the 1980s. Mentioned are the rock musician Kid Congo Powers, the dub artist Adrian Sherwood, the experimental punk band Crass, and the electronic band Coil.

Life and work

In the late 1970s Annie first appeared as front woman of the punk band Annie and the Asexuals in appearance. The group released no plates, but went through numerous live performances a name. Was one of her fans, among others, Frank Zappa. Annie went in the early 1980s to England, where they quickly established contacts with renowned scene groups. In the following years she worked with, among others, to recordings of the punk group Crass, electronics pioneers coil and the post-industrial spectrum then active Current 93. In Coil title Things Happen on their classic album Love's Secret Domain Annie presented for the first time their vocal abilities in Old demonstrated and pointed ahead to Later. Little Annie lived and worked for several years in New York and has recorded solo albums since the 1980s and over again. After completely different creative excursions into various styles of post-punk, dub and experimental electronics seems to have found in recent years, alongside her label Durtro Jnana their appropriate style Little Annie: Her most successful album Songs from the Coalmine Canary ( 2006) recorded with Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons and Joe Bude Holzer of Backworld and contains a collection of mostly ballad Torch songs in Klaggewand between jazz, cabaret, soul and chanson. Her singing has been compared to Marianne Faithfull and Grace Jones, as well as with younger singers like Amy Winehouse. On the album, the title Strangelove is included, which was used for a Levi's commercial and has received awards at the film festival in Cannes for best commercial song of 2006. Your next, along with her live pianist Paul Wallfisch ( Botanica ) rehearsed album When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos close stylistically to the predecessor, although it mainly reinterpretations of some of her favorite songs are included. Be sung New et al Songs of Tina Turner, U2, Frank Sinatra, Charles Aznavour and Jacques Brel. Also, the latest album Genderful which again contains original compositions, was produced together with Wallfisch. Bandez and Wallfisch have already shared as a live duo the stage with musicians such as Marc Almond and Baby Dee.

Painting

Little Annie is also a painter and exhibits regularly in galleries. You stress naive, rudimentary folk painting style is figurative and not seldom contrasted harmoniously acting persons or objects with a background of long-range, some desolate urban landscapes. It often colors are we red and orange in the foreground, the contours are less sharp and the surface appears frequently washed out. Comparisons of Frieda Kahlo has been drawn also to the typical artwork of the psychedelic era. In its series Urban Saints religious figures stand in the center. Madonnas, angels and Christ figures remind partially to classic icon painting or religious quotes of the Italian Renaissance, such as Giotto. In her series September Skyline motifs were integrated, which refer to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

Discography

Musicians with whom Little Annie has worked (selection)

Coil (Band) Dark Cabaret Folklore Jesus September 11 attacks Crass Records One Little Indian Records Discogs Integrated Authority File
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