Poppy-Laced is the solo music project of Annah Sidigu, formerly of Ze Mayfly (a band that consisted primarily of Sidigu and friend Ben F. Taylor).
Sidigu's first serious foray into the music scene since college, Poppy-Laced strives to be sensitive, witty, and worthwhile. Many of the songs are embellished accounts drawn from real life. Others are entirely fictional. Still others are intensely personal, like snippets from diary entries or shy poems that yearn to be stripped bare.
Among Poppy-Laced's musical influences are Ali Farka Toure, Ayub Ogada, Bach, Beethoven, Bjork, Bob Marley, Broken Social Scene, Canon, Chopin, Cincinnatus, Damon Albarn/Gorillaz, The Decemberists, Franco, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Jeff Buckley, Joanna Newsom, Josh Carrigan, Lauryn Hill, Manu Chao, Marquis de Rad, New Order, Nina Simone, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pinback, Postal Service, Radiohead, Ratatat, The Shins, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Sigur Ros, Sombrero Fallout, Sufjan Stevens, Thomas Mapfumo, Toumani Diabate, and Vieux Farka Toure. She is a lover of fugues, waltzes, progressive hip-hop (especially Kenyan groups Necessary Noize and Gidi Gidi Maji Maji), and reggae. Poppy-Laced is therefore able to blur musical boundaries or stereotypes for the purpose of creating homegrown and interesting art.
You can check out Annah's political blog at www.thedoublestandard.wordpress.com
