LN003: Liner Notes & Fantome present

Dagmar Zuniga
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Cube Microplex
Monday 5th October | 7pm | £14advance

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.

‘in filth…’ is an atmospheric, devotional collage where one voice multiplies into a chorus of selves, sometimes delicate, sometimes severe; an effect created by Zuniga’s masterful layering of texture and complex harmonies. Synths glitter out like spears of sunlight from beneath clouds of moody, time-distorted guitars, & songs spin about themselves like tightly-wound music boxes, making use of a kind of hypnotic repetition, before melting apart into their components or slipping into the following track.

What was once a jewel of tapped-in algorithms & message boards is no more, with ‘in filth…’ having arrived digitally back in March, & physically in April (thanks to none other than AD 93), Dagma Zuniga has met the world at large & embarks on a four-month US/EU tour, spanning 30 dates! 
…Bristol is just so lucky enough to be one