Savanna
Can you introduce yourself to our audience?
Hi Cafe De Anatolia family — I’m Savanna, a DJ and producer shaped by my Latin American roots and a deep love for nature, rhythm, and introspection.
I grew up in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, right on the edge of the Amazon. The heat, humidity, wildlife, and organic pulse of that environment live naturally in my music. At the same time, Buenos Aires — the city where I was born — has been a huge influence on me: its intensity, progressive spirit, and rebellious rock attitude.
I fell in love with how dance music can feel like a shared ritual: repetitive rhythms, evolving melodies, and a room full of strangers becoming one. Since then, I’ve been crafting sets and productions that blend house music with tribal textures, taking ancestral sounds into a global, contemporary context.
What inspired you to pursue a career in music, specifically electronic music?
What fascinates me most is that electronic music can be powerful, fun, and spiritual at the same time. House music, with its repetitive grooves and progressive movement, creates something like an active meditation — it allows you to go inward while also connecting deeply with the people around you.
I also love the idea that nature and technology belong together. The Amazon is endlessly rich in sound and color — rain, birds, movement, life. Electronic music is the most stimulating playground to transform all of that into a new experience. For me, this is the perfect meeting point: ancestral rhythm and futuristic sound, community and introspection.
How would you describe your style and sound?
My sound is a tribal Amazonian ritual translated into electronic music.
I blend organic, deep, progressive, and melodic house with folkloric percussion, tribal textures, and ancestral instruments — charango and guitars, quena and zampoña, bombos, matracas, tamboras — combined with natural atmospheres like rain and birds, which are essential when creating my immersive world.
What sets me apart is the way my sets are designed. They move from subtle to intense, like a ceremony that slowly opens and expands. It’s emotional, introspective, and energetic — meant to elevate, ground, and connect people as part of one living ecosystem.
About the Release
Tell us about your latest release. What’s the story behind it?
My latest release is my first EP with Cafe De Anatolia. It was born during a period of deep artistic and personal crisis in 2021 — a time when I was letting go of an old version of myself and rediscovering my creative voice.
Each track represents a chapter of that journey, inspired by different powerful places in Bolivia, which I consider home.
“Un trip en Samaipata” was inspired by a town where I feel I could spend my life. Samaipata is a mystical place — its name means “Resting Top.” It’s full of colorful flowers and has an idyllic climate. Its stone-carved ruins, almost 2,000 years old, make it an energetic center as strong as Machu Picchu. This track captures the feeling of being calmly guided by something greater than yourself.
“Veo caer la nieve en el Sajama” is the most introspective piece on the EP. It’s a melodic conversation between the wounded child and the adult who is learning not to fear vulnerability. It was inspired by Mount Sajama, the highest mountain in Bolivia. When you see snow falling in a place like that, the feeling of abandonment and silence is total.
“La Isla del Sol” represents rebirth — playful, euphoric, and raw. It carries both celebration and myth. According to Inca legend, the Sun god Inti sent Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo from Isla del Sol with a golden staff, telling them to walk until it sank into the earth — the place where the sacred city would be founded. The staff disappeared in Cusco, and from there the empire began.
What message or feeling do you want listeners to take away from this release?
I want listeners to feel held, touched at the soul, and emotionally accompanied — as if the music is guiding them through vulnerability, healing, and renewal, while reminding them that they are part of something larger and deeply alive.
Name / Date / Collaborators of the release
EP: La Isla del Sol
Release date: January 8, 2026
Collaborators: Non