Fire Track: Upupayāma – “Mystic Chords of Memory”

UPUPAYĀMA IS BACK AND THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET WEIRD (IN THE BEST WAY)

Italian one-man sonic force Upupayāma has a new double album coming, and it sounds absolutely unhinged. Honesty Flowers drops May 29th, 2026 via Fuzz Club. The lead single “Mystic Chords of Memory” is out now everywhere to hold you over.

This is album four from Alessio Ferrari, the guy who somehow writes, records and plays every single instrument himself in a barn studio perched in a mountain village above Parma, Italy. The results land mixed by Chris Smith and mastered by Joseph Carra.

Seventy minutes across two records, Honesty Flowers pushes Ferrari’s signature blend of psych rock and global rhythms into wilder, heavier, more percussive territory. Think funky grooves slamming up against scorched fuzz riffs, sprawling motorik jams, tranquil drones and some genuinely gorgeous acid folk and it is all on the same record. It’s a lot. It’s great.

Ferrari’s own words explain it best: “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.”*

The album is available to pre-order now in limited edition marble 2LP (hand-numbered, only 300 copies), standard black 2LP and CD. Grab a physical copy bundled with the Honesty Flowers t-shirt and you’ll get 10% off at checkout.

Pre-order Honesty Flowers here