MARLENE KUNTZ - Musa

What this video is

Released in 2007 as a single from Marlene Kuntz's seventh album 'Uno' (Virgin Records), 'Musa' arrived at a pivotal moment in the band's trajectory — a deliberate shift away from the angular noise-rock of their 1990s output toward a more melodic, songwriting-oriented and melancholic rock sound. The band, formed in Cuneo, Piedmont in 1990, had been central to the Italian indie underground of the 1990s alongside…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of Italian alternative rock's mid-2000s commercial maturation — the moment when a founding band of the 1990s Italian indie movement embraced major-label production values and accessible melodic songwriting without abandoning artistic identity. The multi-version video…

The director

Italian filmmaker born in Milan. After earning a Fulbright Scholarship, he studied film at Emerson College in Boston, then returned to Milan to direct music videos and commercials. He worked across Milan, London, and Paris before relocating to Los Angeles in…