Mustafa Announces Debut Album ‘Dunya’ | News

Mustafa will launch his debut album, ‘Dunya’, on September twenty seventh by way of Jagjaguwar.

“This file encapsulates a lot of my life,” the Sudanese-Canadian singer-songwriter explains of the expansive twelve-song assortment which incorporates earlier singles ‘Name Of God‘, ‘Gaza Is Calling‘, and ‘Imaan‘. With the album reveal, Mustafa shares the Simon Hessman and Rodaidh McDonald-produced ‘SNL’, which comes with a self-directed video.

Mustafa describes Dunya as a loving interrogation of his lifelong follow of Islam, which he refers to as “the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life.” Weaving anecdotes and allegory intro acoustic reveries and folks songs, Mustafa crafts a file that looks like a sequence of non-public breakthroughs. A lot of the album relies round conversations with family and friends, relationships he maintained via the years and others he misplaced.

“I’m genuinely not attempting to be a pop star,” he shares. “However I consider within the music, and I consider within the story I’m telling.”

A couple of days in the past, the second version of Mustafa’s Artists for Aid benefit concert passed off on July 4th in London that includes performances by Bint Mbareh, Blood Orange, Clairo, Daniel Caesar, Earl Sweatshirt, King Krule, Nicolas Jaar, Ramy Youssef and Yasiin Bey, along with Mustafa himself and particular visitor performer FKA twigs. The occasion, which was offered in partnership with the help group Struggle Little one, raised funds to learn Gaza and Sudan.

Watch the video for ‘SNL’ beneath.

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‘Dunya’ Tracklist: