Name: When Smoke Rises
Brand: Mustafa

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RPS004LPE

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Colour

Green

Colour details

Dark Green

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

889030500434

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

RPS004CD

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Extended format: No

889030500427

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

RPS004LP

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Black

889030500410

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Mustafa

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Regent Park Songs

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Muslim poet and songwriter Mustafa details his debut project <i>When Smoke Rises</i>, via his own Regent Park Songs. 

Mustafa’s two singles to date - “Stay Alive” and “Air Forces” - have been met with adoration from fellow artists, critics and fans and serve as a near-perfect introduction to an important new voice in music. Both songs are included on <i>When Smoke Rises</i> alongside the aforementioned "Ali." They exemplify a style Mustafa himself describes as “inner city folk music” that finds musical inspiration in the folk greats such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Richie Havens but channelled through the contemporary lens of Mustafa’s modern day Toronto.

Mustafa was moved to release his own music following the loss of close friends to gun violence. Much of his music is addressed to those departed friends and to his Toronto neighborhood, Regent Park; a vehicle to honour and affirm the concerns of his community while providing sonic solace for those looking to make sense of their own loss. The video for "Stay Alive" prominently features footage of Regent Park, one of the first housing projects in North America and one of the biggest redevelopment projects on the continent. Mustafa's experience of seeing the blocks, community, and culture that raised him transform into something unrecognizable is a story that is playing out in neighbourhoods across the world - the inner city from which his folk songs are born

When Smoke Rises

Music GB

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