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Dunya

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Mustafa

Dunya

jagjaguwar
  • limited "Ghaba Green" LP

    Released: 27th Sep 2024

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  • black LP

    Released: 27th Sep 2024

    £26.99
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  • CD

    Released: 27th Sep 2024

    £12.99
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'Dunya', the title of Mustafa’s masterfully crafted and breathtakingly tender full-length debut, roughly translates from Arabic to “the world in all its flaws.

” It’s a lofty subject for a young songwriter, but as with every theme at the heart of the Sudanese-Canadian artist’s work—from religious devotion to childhood trauma, gang violence to romantic intimacy—he approaches it through a personal lens. Blending genres and moods, weaving novelistic details into instantly memorable folk songs, he has crafted a record that feels like a series of personal breakthroughs, arriving one after the other. The first thing that strikes you about Mustafa’s music has always been his writing: a simple, piercing tone that can make any story feel as raw and earnest as the words to a love song.

With a hushed delivery that can silence his surroundings, Mustafa evolved swiftly from a child prodigy reciting poems throughout his native Toronto to a behind-the-songs pop songwriting force. On 'Dunya', he becomes a full-on auteur in his own right.