'With All Seven Fingers', Botanicas second album, was released across Europe to rave reviews in October 2002. Recorded on tour in Chicago and in Brooklyn at both Martin Bisis legendary cave and Tamir Muskats (Big Lazy) Vibramonk, 'With All Seven Fingers' picked up where their first album 'Malediction' left off, casting its spell through 14 magic tracks of sultry grooves, leering waltzes, fragile beauty and flat-out rocknroll. Recommended tracks: 1. Complicated Life/ 9. Power/ 12. The Waltz Led by erstwhile Firewater co-conspirator and international piano man Paul Wallfisch, Botanica is a band named for those mysterious stores stocking spells, potions and artifacts of ritual. Botanica makes punk rock chamber music for the 21st century. Pauls gypsy past has taken him to 40 countries, including performances of various sorts in China, Finland, Indonesia and Guinea - where he became an overnight sensation lipsynching on the only TV show in the land. Past lives saw collaboration with Love & Rockets, Congo Norvell, Stiv Bators, Syl Sylvain, Stan Ridgeway and a parade of French people as diverse as Anne Pigalle and Johnny Hallyday. Called the sonic equivalent of an Aki Kaurismäki film by Intro Magazine (Germany), Botanicas music was also recently described in the New Yorker as "...trafficing in sonic noir with an undercurrent of sinewy menace...sinister sophisticates providing the perfect soundtrack to the after-hours, urban experience." Planning insurrections from their current home in New York, Botanica has toured Europe four times in the last 2 years, performing to sold-out theatres in five countries supporting 16 Horsepower. The L.A. Weekly wrote that Botanica "should be inducted into the underrated hall of fame." Positivirages (France), wrote of the "...incomparable songwriting, Botanica delivers a veritable masterpiece reminiscent of the best of Nick Cave and Tom Waits." Visions (Germany), gave the album 9 out of 10 stars and With All Seven Fingers was in the top ten on their critics list.