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Born in New York, Little Annie is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school drop out, juvenile delinquent, self taught painter, multi-media artist and post-modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who has defied catagorisation, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law. In a 1980 interview with Songwriter magazine, no less than Frank Zappa commented on her first musical incarnation: “when I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour, painful as it was - their show was real personal and disorganized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. groups." After making the acquaintance of Steve Ignorant from anarcho-punk band Crass, Annie moved to the UK and recorded the avant-garde Barbed Wire Halo EP with Crass’ Penny Rimbaud. Connecting with Adrian and his then partner Kishi Yamamoto, she lived in a shed in their back garden for a while (!) and made the Soul Possession album. In an interview with Sugarzine Annie recalled: “I did my first album with Adrian Sherwood and all the Jamaicans and we’d be up for two or three days and there’d be different people coming in, they’d leave and we’d take one multi-track off and then we’d work on a Prince Far I multi-track. We’d be living on Guinness and cheese sandwiches. I learned a lot and it was also a lot of fun”. Annie also recorded the Short & Sweet album for On-U Sound, and has collaborated widely with other musicians over the years, including Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Kid Congo Powers and Baby Dee. She recently published her autobiography and is working on a new album.
For more information on Little Annie go to theartistlittleannie.wordpress.com

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from Sherwood At The Controls vol. 1 1979​-​​​1984, released February 5, 2015

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Adrian Sherwood built up a vast catalogue of music through the 1980s via his productions for his own On-U Sound label, which emerged from a fertile post-punk scene that was embracing Jamaican rhythms. In his capacity as a DJ and live sound engineer/dub controller, he connected with the likes of The Clash, The Slits, and The Pop Group. He's gone onto work with everyone from Lee Perry to Blur. ... more

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