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Almaty Museum of Arts featured in a global hit. Muse filmed a music video in Almaty

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The British rock band Muse has released a video for their new track Nightshift Superstar. The single will be included in their tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which is scheduled for release on June 26

The British rock band Muse has released a video for their new track Nightshift Superstar. The single will be included in their tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which is scheduled for release on June 26.


The music video was filmed in Almaty in May 2026. Director Lado Kvataniya was in charge of the staging. The production of the video was handled by the directorial studio REFLECTOЯUM and the Kazakhstani production company Anykey.


Visually, the piece is styled as a sci-fi action film, while the track's sound combines elements of funk and French electronic music—an unusual but compelling experiment for Muse.


The video features the band's frontman, Matthew Bellamy, and Korean dancer Grace Hart. They were joined by singer Manizha, as well as dancers and actors from Almaty.

Almaty Museum of Arts was among the filming locations. As Dmitry Grebennikov, Head of Production at Anykey, explained, it was precisely the museum's architectural character, its scale, and its Constructivist austerity that caught the director's attention.

The museum's space organically rhymed with the sets built in the Officers' House on Zenkov Street. The atmosphere was completed by the work of cinematographer Vova Ushkov; his lighting solution gave the museum building a sense of both monumentality and the future. More than 100 people worked on the set at the museum, and over 150 specialists participated in the project overall. The entire preparation process, from location scouting to final agreements, took about ten days.

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