Pias news – Mustii announces new album ‘the maze’
MUSTII ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM "THE MAZE" OUT DECEMBER 6, VIA [PIAS] RECORDINGS BELGIUM
TITLE TRACK OUT NOW
THE MAZE
19.10.24 - ANCIENNE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS SOLD OUT
21.01.25 - PARADISO, AMSTERDAM (NL)
25.01.25 - HET DEPOT, LEUVEN
28.01.25 - DE ROMA, ANTWERP
01.02.25 - FOREST NATIONAL, BRUSSELS
After the Eurovision adventure with BEFORE THE PARTY'S OVER - now platinum in Belgium and the country's 5th most streamed song in the world so far (!) - and following the release of TELL THE KIDS IT'S ALRIGHT, Belgian artist Mustii today announces his third album THE MAZE set for release on December 6, 2024.
Title track THE MAZE is a third taste of this new album, full of homoerotic references, sprinkled with references to Bowie, Grace Jones and Studio 54. Build on thumping groove, with its dark and fierce verses and unsuspected light and melodic chorus, Mustii put together a real musical and wonderful maze.
"The song THE MAZE sets the tone for the forthcoming album. It's the name of an imaginary night club - the setting for all the songs on the album - but it also serves as a metaphor for my mind. A place where it's easy to get lost.... It's also puts in to question my sexuality and the creation of a new assumed family; the queer and underground world which often carries flaws, scars but also a lot of life, love and fire."
Already known as an actor ('La Trêve', 'L'échange des princesses' and more recently in 'La nuit se traine' directed by Michiel Blanchart - must-see!), Mustii revealed himself as a singer with his debut album 21st Century Boy (2018), with the theme of after trauma and a fictional character as the common thread.
In 2022 he released It's Happening Now, his second album constructed like the diary of his deceased uncle suffering from schizophrenia.
For this album, without misplaced ego, Mustii no longer wants intermediaries or external characters to speak to his audience. The idea is to refocus on his own experiences and assume a more personal commitment: "I imagine this album as a metaphor for a long night of partying, from the pre-party to the after-party, with its ups and downs, the euphoria then the fall. THE MAZE is the name of the nightclub in which the experiences, discoveries and extremities take place, but undoubtedly also the metaphor of my mind, of the side roads that I take, of the comings and goings".
On stage Mustii will be joined by a brand new live band:
Memru Renjaan - gitaar (multiple Buma award winner, live guitarist for Oscar and The Wolf, Hadise, Max Mutzke, Kraantje Pappie, Ronnie Flex, Lil Kleine & Frenna, music producer for X Factor UK/US, Britain Got Talent, ...)
Victor Defoort - basgitaar (Oscar and The Wolf, Tamino, J. Bernardt)
Mat Frings - keys (componist & musician Loïc Nottet)
Niels Meukens - drums (X!nk, Warhola, School Is Cool, ....)
TRACKLIST
ENTER THE MAZE
THE MAZE
MASSIVE LOVE INFECTION
SO HIGH
SILLY BOYS
MOONDUST (PART 2)
KINGDOM£
TELL THE KIDS IT’S ALRIGHT
ATTITUDE
BONFIRE
BEFORE THE PARTY’S OVER