While spending most of his adult life in the US, Mirza was born in Bosnia & Herzegovina and lived there until 1992, when the Bosnian War forced his family to flee the country. Mirza and his mother would spend the next few years moving across continents, countries and states as refugees. Mirza’s father did not survive the war; he was killed by a mortar shell in 1993. This personal journey of trauma, loss and survival is at the core of the project’s DNA. The Human Stain by SAIGON WOULD BE SEOUL As with the debut album Everywhere Else Left Behind (2019), the upcoming new full-length album The Human Stain deals with Mirza’s roots: “This album is a story of my hometown: Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina (formerly Yugoslavia). Conceptually it is divided into three parts: the...