The mysterious Strasbourg-born, Paris–based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, publicly known as MHUD initially began his creative career as a painter before turning to music as a creative outlet relatively recently. And within a relatively short period of time, the Strasbourg-born, Paris-based artist quickly established a genre-defying approach to his music that thematically touches upon humankind’s spiritual, emotional and intellectual split from itself.

Released last year, the Strasbourg-born, Paris-based artist’s sophomore album was largely conceived in the morning and at home with co-writer Felipe Sierra (guitar, synth). The pair wrote with the album’s material with the common thread of giving all their musical influences a chance to shine. Thematically, the album touches on consciousness and the unconscious, the chaotic noise of information overload, the lack of nuance, the inability to find a quiet moment to think or to process anything, and how easy it is to lose the thin thread of time that seems to barely hold everything to together. 

NONO features the previously released, bruising “Toucher le sol,” and its latest single “Ô Calypso.” “Ô Calypso” is a shuffling and furiously unhinged bit of Bossa Nova that simultaneously seems to draw from Osees, Population II and VICTIME, Thematically, the song asks a deeply existential question: Will the 21st century man attain happiness or merely a nauseating madness?

The accompanying live footage, filmed at Mastoïd Studio by Nicolas Giraldo sees MHUD with a backing band featuring Felipa Sierra, Pedro Barrios (percussion), Biscuit (saxophone), Thomas Chalindar (drums) and Paul Dussaux (bass, modular synth).