“Her carried vocals together with this experimental, sometimes quite bare music are enchanting. The constructions she performs here are also completely unique and of a moving, goosebump-inducing, profound beauty. Saba delivers an overwhelming masterpiece.”

— De Subjectivisten

Press / Reviews

L'Orient le jour

Nasri Sayegh | Oct 2023

"It’s nestled in the interval between the urgency of speaking and that of remaining silent or misspeaking that Youmna Saba engages in an intense, yet profoundly lovestruck, heart-to-body bond with her instrument".

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SCENENOISE

Layla Raik | dec 2023

"The five-song composition feels like going in circles on the edge of an epiphany; a spiral in synthesised oud".

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MUSIQUE JOURNAL

Pierre France | OCT 2023

"In Saba’s work, there is a concern for sound as a material that permeates everything, taking root everywhere".

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“A beautiful unease pervades the new release from Youmna Saba on Touch” - The Slow Music Movement

— The Slow Music Movement, 2023

“Wishah in Best Albums of 2023 on Beehype”

— Beehype

“Wishah in Best Albums of 2023 on SceneNoise - Middle East and North Africa”

— SceneNoise