Retrospective Series

Where’d They Go? Sampha

I swear they smell the blood on me

Alexander Razin
The Riff
Published in
4 min readApr 2, 2021

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Source: The Guardian

It’s difficult to forget the events of 2017. I can’t forget, and I would ignore it by indulging in entertainment, mainly music. For everything that happened in 2017, excellent music came out. Brockhampton triple album Saturation released to gain their massive success. Tyler, The Creator Flower Boy, Lorde’s Melodrama, favorite of mine, Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse, and Sampha’s Process which made critics and music connoisseurs jump on the Sampha bandwagon, and claim Process as one of the best albums of 2017.

After the release, he went quiet, and a new album is nowhere in sight. So, Where Did They Go?

Early Life and Dual

Source: Amazon

Sampha Lahai Sisay was born on November 16, 1988, Morden London, England when his parents from Lebanon moved to London in the 80s. He grew his taste in music at a young age as he learned how to play the piano in his parent’s home. In his teenage years, he grew fond of music producing, and with the help of his brother, they made a home studio where they recorded music. The siblings' efforts pulled off when in…

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Alexander Razin
The Riff

Aficionado and connoisseur of obscure and experimental music, movies, and TV. Fictional and nonfictional pieces have their place here, too