Photo courtesy of the artist.
Psych rock act Upupayāma are today announcing their new album ‘Honesty Flowers’ and sharing the lead single and video ‘Mystic Chords of Memory’, following an exclusive first play on KEXP.
Due for release May 29th 2026 on Fuzz Club, ‘Honesty Flowers’ is the fourth studio album from Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferarri under the Upupayāma moniker. An epic double album set, it 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.
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 – guitars, keys, flute, sitar, and an arsenal of percussion all feature. Never not working on new music, Ferarri started laying down these new 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 result was mixed by Chris Smith at Kluster Sounds (Kikagaku Moyo, Wax Machine) and mastered by Joseph Carra (King Gizzard, Babe Rainbow, ORB)
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.”
UPCOMING UPUPAYĀMA SHOWS
04-06/06 – Netphen, DE @ Freak Valley Festival
02-05/07 – Slunj, HR @ Bearstone Festival
31/07-01/08 – Beelen, DE @ Krach am Bach Festival
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