Saba
Life changaniysha

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Special project for AMREF, Life Changaniysha tells of the journey that the artist conducted in Kenya following the route to the villages and remote places that the largest organization of healthcare in Africa is committed to helping thousands of people. The artist meets those protagonists, from the bush on the outskirts of Nairobi city, tells their stories, penetrates and share their humanity, their experiences, their dreams, their food, their struggle for survival.
In accordance with this stirring lyrics and songs take shape, because they abandon the trip, knowing means also happily accept the idea that, once lived in this way, "life has been brewing," Life changanyisha, precisely, hence the title of the album.
The material emerged, including many authentic field recordings that are interwoven tracks on the disc, is conceived in the common territory of the meeting of languages and scripts. However, a warm wind blows in East Africa in the album, although by no means is housed in the crystallization of a hard return "roots", a tour guide, popular traditions. Imagine: after miles and miles of red earth, we find ourselves in the embrace sound of an entire village that moves rhythmically in the ritual of the meeting. And Saba, well accepted, also participates in offering his hand, as an immediate exchange of gifts. The music and vocal expression, therefore, become immediate bridges of communication and thus fertilize newly rich territories where we are told, without need to defend their cultural identity fertile experience a change. English, Kiswahili and Somali languages are telling in 11 previously unreleased tracks on this trip geographical, human and artistic intended as the first two universal languages, Somali instead as the main theme of the relationship of birth of Sheba with that part of the world, East Africa.
Fabio Barovero produced the album, enlisting among the musicians Thomas Gobena, Gogol Bordello, Luke "Vicio" Neighbors, Subsonica, Federico Sanesi, great tabla players, Master Rajab Suleyman important depository of art qanoun Zanzibar, the Kayamba Africa, the most famous vocal group of East Africa and Bismillahi Gargar, collective female voices hot Somali border with Somalia.
Saba, singer and songwriter, was born in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, to an Ethiopian mother (born in Somalia) and Italian father. She worked in the communication and publishing industry and, as actress, for TV and theatre. Jidka-The Line, her first album published worldwide by World Music.


Special project for AMREF, “Life Changaniysha” tells of the journey that the artist conducted in Kenya following the route to the villages and remote places that the largest organization of healthcare in Africa is committed to helping thousands of people. The artist meets those protagonists, from the bush on the outskirts of Nairobi city, tells their stories, penetrates and share their humanity, their experiences, their dreams, their food, their struggle for survival. In accordance with this stirring lyrics and songs take shape, because they abandon the trip, knowing means also happily accept the idea that, once lived in this way, "life has been brewing," Life changanyisha, precisely, hence the Title of the Album.
The material emerged, including many authentic field recordings that are interwoven tracks on the disc, is conceived in the common territory of the meeting of languages and scripts, exchange of experiences, drawing vivid and lively music that just so you becomes, without hassles nennun for tradition. In fact, when you're singing with a boy of sixteen years of great talent, made of glue, in the middle of a slum in Nairobi, for example, do not expect to know a primitive musical instrument tradition, already widely massacred hundred years ago by English colonists. 
 His references are rather rappers and African Americans that raged in that continent.
However, a warm wind blows in East Africa in the album, although by no means is housed in the crystallization of a hard return "roots", a tour guide, popular traditions. Imagine: after miles and miles of red earth, we find ourselves in the embrace sound of an entire village that moves rhythmically in the ritual of the meeting. And Saba, well accepted, also participates in offering his hand, as an immediate exchange of gifts. The music and vocal expression, therefore, become immediate bridges of communication and thus fertilize newly rich territories where we are told, without need to defend their cultural identity fertile experience a change. English, Kiswahili and Somali languages are telling in 11 previously unreleased tracks on this trip geographical, human and artistic intended as the first two universal languages, Somali instead as the main theme of the relationship of birth of Sheba with that part of the world, East Africa.
From field recordings in the open savannah of the Masai choirs on the border with Tanzania, to the musical work with the children of the slums of Nairobi, between whiffs of synthetic glue eyes and unforgettable time in their work stolen from the collection recycled material in the landfill of the city, the song of the villages, mothers, children, farmers and young warriors like the outskirts of the metropolis, are the soul of a people in music that enhances the living experience of this story and passed. The hand to exorcise the terror, the impetus of hope, the main instrument of orality. The themes of the songs tell this particular fact. Fabio Barovero produced the album, enlisting among the musicians Thomas Gobena, Gogol Bordello, Luke "Vicio" Neighbors, Subsonica, Federico Sanesi, great tabla player, Master Rajab Suleyman important depository of art qanoun Zanzibar, the Kayamba Africa, the most famous vocal group of East Africa and Bismillahi Gargar, collective female voices hot Somali border with Somalia.

Saba, singer and songwriter, was born in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, to an Ethiopian mother (born in Somalia) and Italian father. After doing much of her growing up in Italy, Saba studied to become a mosaicist, completing a degree in Art History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She worked in the communication and publishing industry and, as actress, for TV and theatre. “Jidka-The Line”, her first album published worldwide by Phil Stanton's “WorldMusicNetwork”, marked her solo debut in 2007, mixing the traditional sounds with contemporary flourishes. Between 2008 and 2009 Saba performs in at least one hundred concerts with her international band composed by: Martino Roberts (Bass) Cheikh Fall (kora, djembè) Tatè Nsongan (guitar, percussions), Salvio Vassallo (drums). The artist conquers, with the magic alchemy of her show, important stages like the Nat Geo Music one for the "Earth Day", with Cesaria Evora; the prestigious main stage of the Italia Love Wave Festival; The Auditorium Flog in Florence for the Festival Musica dei Popoli; the International Festival of Hammamet and many more. In 2009 Saba and Fabio Barovero, producer and coauthor, meet in Addis Ababa some traditional and contemporary ethiopian musicians: a sort of field research in the capital of Ethiopia, where many music styles from the Horn flow together. The recording sessions with Endale Abate, Belay Alemayehu, Binyam Berhanu and other artists playing traditional instruments like krar, washinti and masinko are part of the album "Biyo", also recorded with the solid contribution of the members of Saba's live band.

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