MACE “MAYA" is the new album

“MTOYA” is the title of MACE’s new album out on April 5th.

I wanted to approach an all-encompassing record, which was born from contact, not from many separate bricks. It is a very different method than what is in vogue today: not single sessions, but periods of life lived together 24 hours a day for several days, in the colors of the Tuscan countryside, sharing practically everything, like a collective of the 70s.

In particular, I had Funkadelic and psychedelic rock in mind, but I often didn’t give any precise indications: I wanted the music to materialize, and we were simply antennas, ready to channel it.

So many of the ideas in MAYA appeared like this, from the interaction between the most talented musicians I know, inside a room full of musical instruments: synthesizers, Indian instruments, wind instruments, harps, guitars, African percussion… we felt like Pink Floyd in Pompeii!”

MAYA, which can be translated as “deception”, is a term that arises from Hindu philosophy to express the great illusion that envelops what we commonly define as “real”, a veil that hides the true nature of things and of ourselves. Following this vision means practicing seeing the universe as a single organism, interconnected and immaterial, exploring the world of the unconscious, the invisible, the secret, slightly pushing aside the veil of physicality so as to be able to free one’s gaze on things.

Impalpable, (almost) immaterial, music has the power to lead elsewhere, to transport those who enjoy it into dimensions that escape from the reality that we perceive as objective, opening the door.

MACE’s new album is also born from this vision. On the one hand, the multi-platinum producer’s desire to accompany the listener into immaterial dimensions, to take a real journey through the psychedelic atmospheres of the productions and to lead the numerous guest voices out of their comfort zone.
On the other hand, the desire to return to a creative process that privileged collective work: for the musical writing of the album MACE brought together 15 of the best Italian instrumentalists.

MACE started from intuition to subsequently process all the material collected, enriching it with glimpses of sound, strong contrasts and fragments of psychedelia to immerse the listener in an alienating and unreal territory.

The song anticipated the album’s release I DON’T RECOGNIZE MYSELF ≠a song that brings together the voices of one of the heavyweights on the national scene, SALMO, and centomilacarie, a young talent who has stood out for his writing with overwhelming emotion.

THE LIVE

On October 18, 2024 Mace will hold his first concert at the Forum in Milan: an out-of-body experience that will take the viewer on a journey through OBE, OLTRE and his next album.
Accompanying Mace on this journey will be musicians, visual artists and various guests who will take turns on stage to transport the audience on a multi-sensory itinerary.

ON OCTOBER 18, 2024 | MILAN @Forum