MUSTAFA - Dunya - LP - Ghaba Green Vinyl [SEP 27]

LP - Limited Edition Ghaba Green 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.

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.

Tracklist: 

Side A
1.  Name of God 
2.  What Happened,  Mohamed? 
3.  Imaan 
4.  What good is a heart?  
5.  SNL
6.  I’ll Go Anywhere

Side B
7.  Beauty, end
8.  Old Life 
9.  Gaza is Calling
10.  Leaving Toronto
11.  Hope is a knife
12.  Nouri