Upupayāma share new single and video for ‘Fil Dağı’,lifted from incoming album ‘Mount Elephant’

Upupayāma is today sharing the new single and video for ‘Fil Dağı’ (‘Elephant Mountain’ in Turkish) The second single to be lifted from incoming album ‘Mount Elephant’, due out on Sep 13th. Pre-order the LP on white marble vinyl here

 ‘Fil Dağı’ taps into the project’s Anatolian influences, expanding on a song that first appeared on Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferarri's 2020 debut: “I like to think of this song as a Green Cabana II. I often find myself imagining people dancing to our songs around a fire in the middle of nature and this one makes me think about it the most.”

“Mount Elephant was born out of a need to listen, to listen to silence”, Ferrari says: “Listening to the silence while observing flowers, while moving your hands in the wind, listening to your body while you are dancing. If in my first album ('Upupayāma') I had travelled the length and breadth of a place, in the second ('The Golden Pond') I had reached one and stopped there, in this third album I set out again, crossing a border and entering a long-dreamed place that I could finally ‘see with my own eyes’.”

A six-piece band live, where things take a more ever-evolving improvisation-based approach, on the recordings Ferrari writes, plays and records everything himself – guitars, keys, flute, sitar, erhu and an arsenal of percussion all feature. The recordings were laid down over time in Ferrari's home barn studio in a small mountain village overlooking the city of Parma, before being mixed by Chris Smith at Kluster Sounds (Kikagaku Moyo, Wax Machine).