Shava is a unique group of five Finnish guys from Helsinki who started playing Bhangra, a fast, energetic type of dance music which has its roots in the villages of the Punjab region of northern India. Bhangra has become a major music phenomenon within the vast immigrant Punjabi populations all over the world. Shava has embraced this tradition which is both ancient and modern at the same time and made it their own. They have created a new tradition, a global Creole music which has its roots both in the soil of India as well as the concrete jungle of East-Helsinki.
\nShava\u2019s second studio album is due to be released in February 2015! Our crowdfunding campaign is primarily aimed at mixing and producing the album, and studio costs. Additional funding will be spent on music video production, marketing et cetera.<\/p>\n
One of the songs on the album will be Onkimiehen bhangra which we released already a year ago. We think we did a fine job with the song. However, we feel that we need the extra punch and energy that professional production and mixing will bring. Basically we want that the energy of our live performances can be heard on the CD as well. Listen to our \u201ddemo quality\u201d release of Onkimehen bhangra from 2013 – it\u2019s not bad at all, but we want to make our sound really stand out!<\/p>\n