Lawrence wanted to use contemporary New York musicians to record traditional Greek folk music and older Greek popular music as a way to encourage contemporary Greek rock musicians to create new hybrids rather than slavishly imitate non-Greek styles. In late 1985, he recruited Anna Paidoussi, an operatically trained Greek-American singer who was familiar with modern Greek music, to be the Anna for an act he dubbed Annabouboula, which is a Greek expression that means noisy confusion.
Lawrence intended to use contemporary New York musicians to record traditional and older Greek folk and popular music as a strategy to encourage contemporary Greek rock musicians to create new fusions rather than simply imitate non-Greek styles. In late 1985, he selected Anna Paidoussi, an operatically trained Greek-American singer with familiarity in modern Greek music, for the act Annabouboula, whose name in Greek conveys a sense of disorder.