Upupyāma's new album 'Honesty Flowers' out now on marbled 2LP, black 2LP and CD

‘Honesty Flowers’, the new double album from Upupayāma, is out everywhere today! Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferarri’s fourth album is yours to stream now and enjoy on limited marbled 2LP, black 2LP and CD. Grab yours here

‘Honesty Flowers’ finds Upupayāma’s ever mind-blowing brew of organic psychedelic rock meets global grooves at its most percussive, lively and distorted. Equally hedonistic and heady, it courses through rhythmic funk grooves, doubled-down scorched fuzz riffing, winding motorik jams, tranquil drones and pastoral acid-folk across its seventy minute run time.

On the new record, Ferarri says: “Honesty Flowers was born from listening to lots of funk music from all over the world, lots and lots of African music, and from listening to myself as I spent whole nights playing all kinds of percussion instruments. I would fall into a sort of trance and play the same rhythm for hours on congas or on a djembe. It’s an album that was born above all from the beauty of being able to narrate the unknown and recognise yourself in it, which could translate into telling stories and bringing them to life.”

A six-piece band live, where things take a more ever-evolving improvisation-based approach (see their recent ’Live At Fuzz Club Festival ‘25’ LP), on the recordings Ferarri writes, plays and records everything himself. Never not working on new music, he started laying down these new Upupayāma tracks in his home barn studio in a small mountain village overlooking the city of Parma before its 2024 predecessor ‘Mount Elephant’ even hit the racks. The resulting double album was mixed by Chris Smith at Kluster Sounds (Kikagaku Moyo, Wax Machine) and mastered by Joseph Carra (King Gizzard, Babe Rainbow, ORB)