Dagmar Zuniga + bonVILLE

LN003: Liner Notes & Fantome present Dagmar Zuniga + bonVILLE (solo / stripped back)

Monday 5th October — 7.00pm
The Cube Microplex
£14 advance / more OTD

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Dagmar Zuniga
Nicaraguan-American artist Dagmar Zuniga makes music that feels both intimate & expansive: songs drift like disrupted signals, carried by harmony, tape hiss, & a strong sense of touch.

Her debut solo album ‘in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music’ — written & recorded in New York, Norway, & Athens, Georgia over a period of five years on her longtime companion, the Tascam 424 — was uploaded to Bandcamp & YouTube in January 2025 through Dagmar’s friends People’s Coalition of Tandy. The project quickly garnering over two hundred thousand views & the attention of artists such as Mount Eerie, who invited her to tour with them that summer.

Zuniga began recording to tape as a teenager, drawn to the physicality of the medium — how a tape recording is fragile, mutable, & alive. Though her ethereal sound may draw easy comparisons to other female pioneers of psychedelic folk, she is influenced just as much by the darker sounds of Syd Barrett and The Fall.

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bonVILLE
bonVILLE is a Bristol-based dream-pop, neo-folk project created by Swedish singer-songwriter Vendela Löfbom. The band blends acoustic fragility with thundering climaxes, textured bass-lines, washed out guitars and soaring strings - combining grungy, open-ended chord progressions with ethereal swelling vocals and sharp lyrics.

Whether solo, duo, or as a full band, bonVILLE’s live performances have received much positive response and has been described as hypnotic, dynamic and spell-binding.

bonVILLE’s first short concept-album ‘STRIP’, was released in early 2025, and 2026 sees the release of a three track EP, ‘thunder’ season, where Vendela leans further towards her guitar-forward, singer-songwriter, dream-pop soundpalette.