Savara
Savage Level
Album · Afro-fusion · 2022
Savara’s debut album serves as a thorough reflection on how Delvin Savara Mudigi became a Grammy-winning singer, drummer, and one-fourth of the celebrated African band Sauti Sol. As his first solo outing since the Kenyan supergroup went on hiatus in October 2021 to focus on individual projects, Savage Level projects Savara’s passionate energy to simultaneously entertain and illuminate. "My goal is to get other people to see the magic in themselves, and not only understand their power but also tap into it," he tells Apple Music. True to promise, Savara infuses his upbeat, goofy energy and purposeful vim into an exciting project. The album opens with the joyful “Sababisha” (a Swahili phrase for “make it happen”); across the following 13 tracks, Savara waxes philosophical on moderation (“Balance”), vulnerability (“Anxiety”), and the need to run rings around toxic masculinity to rack up more accomplishments (“Savage Level”).