Rising: Dagmar Zuniga captures life in quiet fragments

In 2022, Dagmar Zuniga packed up her life in New York, sold her belongings and moved to rural Norway. Armed with a few essential items of clothing and the Tascam tape recorder she’s had since her mid-teens, the producer and singer arrived on a farm and spent the next eight months shepherding, gardening and cooking for a family in exchange for room and board. Keeping her hands busy, it was during this quiet time under wide Norwegian skies that the seeds of her tape-worn debut album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music were planted.

“There were 12 of us living there and hundreds of sheep – I could spend hours just gazing out of my window, watching them like TV,” Zuniga says. “I found it really inspiring because, while doing menial labour, a song would develop in my head. The ambience of the environment would impact me.”

Read the interview in Crack Magazine.

[This piece was published on 20/03/26]