Mustafa - Dunya (Green Coloured Vinyl)

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.

Tracklisting

01 Name Of God
02 What Happened, Mohamed?
03 Imaan
04 What good is a heart?
05 SNL
06 I’ll Go Anywhere
07 Beauty, end
08 Old Life
09 Gaza Is Calling
10 Leaving Toronto
11 Hope is a Knife
12 Nouri