Dunya

Description

‘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

Disc 1
1. Name of God – Mustafa
2. What Happened, Mohamed? – Mustafa
3. Imaan – Mustafa
4. What Good Is a Heart? – Mustafa
5. SNL – Mustafa
6. I’ll Go Anywhere – Mustafa
7. Beauty, End – Mustafa
8. Old Life – Mustafa
9. Gaza Is Calling – Mustafa
10. Leaving Toronto – Mustafa
11. Hope Is a Knife – Mustafa
12. Nouri – Mustafa