Upupayāma Turns ‘Baobab’ Into a Never-Ending Psych-Funk Caravan Ride on ‘Honesty Flowers’
Upupayāma have shared ‘Baobab,’ the fourth and final single from the new double album ‘Honesty Flowers,’ out May 29 on Fuzz Club.
The project is led by Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferrari, who writes, plays, and records everything himself in the studio, before taking the music to the stage with a six-piece live band.
‘Honesty Flowers’ is Upupayāma’s fourth studio album and runs around 70 minutes. Across the record, Ferrari pushes his sound into its most rhythmic and physical form yet, mixing organic psychedelic rock with funk grooves, African music influences, motorik jams, fuzzed-out guitar, drones, percussion, flute, sitar, keys, and pastoral acid-folk.
Ferrari says the album came from listening to funk and African music, and from long nights spent playing percussion until the rhythm became almost trance-like. That sense of movement runs through the whole record, but ‘Baobab’ feels especially alive. He describes the track as “a group of misfits on an old caravan” and “a never-ending party.”
The album was recorded in Ferrari’s home barn studio in a small mountain village overlooking Parma. It was mixed by Chris Smith at Kluster Sounds and mastered by Joseph Carra. Upcoming Upupayāma dates include Freak Valley, Bearstone, Krach am Bach, and a debut UK show at London’s Strongroom for Other Side Psych Weekender in September.
With ‘Baobab,’ Upupayāma offer a final door into ‘Honesty Flowers’: wild, percussive, sun-baked, and full of motion.
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