After playing select dates in major markets in support of his 2021 project When Smoke Rises, singer-songwriter Mustafa announces his debut world tour to launch in February of 2025. The announcement comes in conjunction with his debut album Dunya being celebrated as one of the best albums of 2024 by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vulture NPR, and NME among others.
Speaking about Dunya, Mustafa shares that he is "trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood," a notion that is beautifully exemplified in a song like "SNL." But Dunya, which roughly translates from Arabic to "the world in all its flaws" is also an interrogation of his faith and lifelong relationship with Islam, something that Mustafa has referred to as "the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life." This examination is evident in "I'll Go Anywhere," which on surface examination reads as a folk song, albeit one that interpolates a melody his parents sang to him as a child and prominently features the oud, a string instrument originating from the Middle East that folds seamlessly into the record's unique, rich atmosphere paired with vocal contributions from Rosalía. This effortless mixture of disparate elements that seemingly shouldn't work together, but ultimately do, speaks to the power of Mustafa's work as an artist.
Image Credit: Photo by Jack McKain
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Speaking about Dunya, Mustafa shares that he is "trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood," a notion that is beautifully exemplified in a song like "SNL." But Dunya, which roughly translates from Arabic to "the world in all its flaws" is also an interrogation of his faith and lifelong relationship with Islam, something that Mustafa has referred to as "the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life." This examination is evident in "I'll Go Anywhere," which on surface examination reads as a folk song, albeit one that interpolates a melody his parents sang to him as a child and prominently features the oud, a string instrument originating from the Middle East that folds seamlessly into the record's unique, rich atmosphere paired with vocal contributions from Rosalía. This effortless mixture of disparate elements that seemingly shouldn't work together, but ultimately do, speaks to the power of Mustafa's work as an artist.
Image Credit: Photo by Jack McKain
After playing select dates in major markets in support of his 2021 project When Smoke Rises, singer-songwriter Mustafa announces his debut world tour to launch in February of 2025. The announcement comes in conjunction with his debut album Dunya being celebrated as one of the best albums of 2024 by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vulture NPR, and NME among others.
Speaking about Dunya, Mustafa shares that he is "trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood," a notion that is beautifully exemplified in a song like "SNL." But Dunya, which roughly translates from Arabic to "the world in all its flaws" is also an interrogation of his faith and lifelong relationship with Islam, something that Mustafa has referred to as "the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life." This examination is evident in "I'll Go Anywhere," which on surface examination reads as a folk song, albeit one that interpolates a melody his parents sang to him as a child and prominently features the oud, a string instrument originating from the Middle East that folds seamlessly into the record's unique, rich atmosphere paired with vocal contributions from Rosalía. This effortless mixture of disparate elements that seemingly shouldn't work together, but ultimately do, speaks to the power of Mustafa's work as an artist.
Image Credit: Photo by Jack McKain
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Speaking about Dunya, Mustafa shares that he is "trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood," a notion that is beautifully exemplified in a song like "SNL." But Dunya, which roughly translates from Arabic to "the world in all its flaws" is also an interrogation of his faith and lifelong relationship with Islam, something that Mustafa has referred to as "the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life." This examination is evident in "I'll Go Anywhere," which on surface examination reads as a folk song, albeit one that interpolates a melody his parents sang to him as a child and prominently features the oud, a string instrument originating from the Middle East that folds seamlessly into the record's unique, rich atmosphere paired with vocal contributions from Rosalía. This effortless mixture of disparate elements that seemingly shouldn't work together, but ultimately do, speaks to the power of Mustafa's work as an artist.
Image Credit: Photo by Jack McKain
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