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DANCER VS. POLITICIAN

"A City Half-Lost" available now

About Me

DANCER VS. POLITICIAN (formerly known as Panda) is the new band/recording project of Audition With Max Reinhardt's Sanni Baumgaertner. After leaving Athens, Georgia in 2005, heading for Berlin with a newly recorded full length album in her pocket, she is now splitting her time between Germany and the US, with bands in both places.
Produced by Andy Baker (The Glands, Azure Ray), Sanni Baumgaertner, and Matt Yelton (The Pixies, Frank Black), the album "A City Half-Lost" features a number of Athens and Berlin musicians, among them members of Phosphorescent, The Olivia Tremor Control, and Five-Eight. It was released in the US on March 16th 2007 and will be available in Germany later this year. STOMP AND STAMMER calls it ..."A WONDROUS MASTERPIECE, LIKE A NICO ALBUM PERFORMED BY GHOSTS AND ANGLES. FIND IT, BUY IT." (Stomp and Stammer, April 2007)
One of the tracks, "Ratcliffe Highway", is featured on the Nikki Sudden tribute album "Suddenly Yours" on Sunthunder Records. Sanni Baumgärtner also appears on the recently released last album of Nikki Sudden, a dear friend who is sorely missed. It is titled "The Truth Doesn't Matter".
Check out our CDs and merch on Athensmusic.net
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/12/2005
Band Members: Sanni Baumgärtner: vocals, guitar, accordion, musical saw; Berlin Band: Betsi Bell: glockenspiel; Boris Laible: guitar, bass, accordion; Sabine Bremer: violin, saw; Uwe Schlagenhaft: guitar; Martin Wahl: drums; Athens Band: Andy Baker: keys; Amy Bramblett: glockenspiel, clarinet, accordion; Jenny Culler: viola, vocals, saw; Jason Emond: drums; Colin Jones: trumpet; Jesse Flavin: guitar; Brent Jones: trombone; Andrew Robison: bass, organ; Will Taylor: cello;
Influences: Nico & Velvet Underground, Azure Ray, Belle & Sebastian, The Postal Service, Phosphorescent, Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hope for AGoldenSummer, Eels
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Type of Label: None

My Blog

CD review in musicheadquarter.de

Hey!Our CD got a great review in the German online music magazine musicheadquarter.de: http://www.musicheadquarter.de/v1/cd-reviews/dancer-vs-polit ician-a-city-half-lost_555.htmlThey also did an inter...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:06:00 PST

Song Slam Tour Diary

So, I am back in Athens, recovering from the intense, exhausting, and wonderful experience that was called The Lamm Records Girl Song Slam Tour. Here is our tour diary, written by me and the three lov...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:05:00 PST

Songslam

I will be touring solo with the Lamm Records Songslam in Germany in late November. The Songslam brings together songwriters from different countries and then adds a local songwriter in each city. The ...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:46:00 PST

Digital Heaven

"A City Half-Lost" is now also available for download at emusic.com and rhapsody. So, if you live in Tasmania and want to save on S&H, if you sold your CD player so you could afford your IPod, or if y...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Thu, 17 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

Our album "A City Half-Lost" is out now!!!

Our album is released, the show is played, the party is over. But the party for you is about to begin, because it is available now at www.athensmusic.net. It has 10 songs on it, I wrote eight of them,...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:33:00 PST

Goodbye Panda - hello new name

I am changing the name. Panda is no more. I really liked the name, but there seem to be Panda bands popping up all over the place and some of them have been around for longer than us. Apart from the o...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:41:00 PST

CD Release on March 16th: A CITY HALF-LOST

Oh, my god, so much to do for the CD release still. It's exciting that after an almost two year long process the album is coming out. I wrote the credits last night and realized that 19 (!) different ...
Posted by DANCER VS. POLITICIAN on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:34:00 PST