[ Jagjaguwar / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 September 2024
Dunya, the title of Mustafa's masterfully crafted and breathtakingly tender full-length debut on Jagjaguwar, 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 folksongs, he has crafted a record that feels like a series of personal breakthroughs, arriving one after the other.
1. Name of God
2. What Happened, Mohamed?
3. Imaan
4. What good is a heart?
5. SNL
6. I'll Go Anywhere
7. Beauty, end
8. Old Life
9. Gaza is Calling
10. Leaving Toronto
11. Hope is a knife
12. Nouri