Dagmar Zuniga “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music” LP

Nicaraguan-American artistDagmar Zunigamakes music that feels both intimate and expansive: songsdrift like disrupted signals, carried by harmony, tape hiss, and a strong sense of touch. Her debut soloalbumin filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music written and recorded inNew York, Norway, and Athens, Georgia over a period of five years on her longtime companion, theTascam 424 was uploaded to Bandcamp and YouTube in January 2025, quickly garnering over twohundred thousand views and the attention of artists such as Mount Eerie, who invited her to tour withthem that summer. This year, what was once a jewel of tapped-in algorithms and message boards willmeet the world at large, within filtharriving as a physical and widespread digital release onApril 10viaAD 93.

in filthis an atmospheric, devotional collage where one voice multiplies into a chorus of selves,sometimes delicate, sometimes severe; an eect created by Zunigas masterful layering of texture andcomplex harmonies. Synths glitter out like spears of sunlight from beneath clouds of moody,time-distorted guitars, and songs spin about themselves like tightly-wound music boxes, making use ofa kind of hypnotic repetition, before melting apart into their components or slipping into the followingtrack.

Zuniga began recording to tape as a teenager, drawn to the physicality of the medium how a taperecording is fragile, mutable, and alive. Though her ethereal sound may draw easy comparisons to otherfemale pioneers of psychedelic folk, she is influenced just as much by the darker sounds of Syd Barrettand The Fall. Like Barrett, Zuniga is a painter, and she is interested not only in recording music but increating a full, self-contained artistic universe: she creates her own artwork, merchandise, music videos,and bootleg tapes of new and unfinished music that she exclusively sells at live shows (If something is

not material, it does not exist,she insists.). Her world has not gone unvisited, garnering her a monthlyshow onNTS RadioWorld of Pain, as well as a forthcoming appearance atRewire Festivalin April2026.

Though Zunigas work explores themes of solitude and suering, the suering in her songs is notborrowed or displayed; it is held, then opened outward through empathy an exacting practice ofattention that insists on shared ground. Solitude, in her work, is not withdrawal but a starting point forconnection. Likewise, over time, her recording process has become increasingly communal, within filthfeaturing musiciansHayes Hoey,Austyn Wohlers(Tomato Flower), andZach Phillips(Fievel IsGlauque). Newer recordings widen the circle even more. For Zuniga, collaboration is a way tofind aplace between worlds,echoing Badious idea of love as a vision refracted through the prism of

dierence. Meaning emerges there in the space between voices, between artist and listener.

I hopemy music helps people work through dicult experiences,she says.

The same way it helps me.

Track List:

1 Odyssey in Retrograde
2 The Portal
3 Symmetry of the Hourglass
4 Echoes and Dust
5 The Clock Queen
6 Proxima Centuari
7 The Spiral Eye

street date 4/10/26