Honesty Flowers is the fourth studio album by Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferarri, released under his Upupayāma moniker and due out May 29, 2026 via Fuzz Club. This epic double album, spanning around seventy minutes, presents his organic psychedelic rock at its most percussive, vibrant, and distorted, infused with global grooves. Both hedonistic and cerebral, it moves through hypnotic funk rhythms, scorched fuzz riffs, winding motorik jams, tranquil drones, and pastoral acid-folk passages. While Upupayāma performs live as a six-piece with an improvisational approach, Ferarri writes, plays, and records every instrument on the album himself — from guitars, keys, flute, and sitar to a vast array of percussion — working out of his home barn studio overlooking Parma.
Inspired by nights spent in trance-like states playing congas and djembe, the album draws heavily from funk and African music from around the world, channeling rhythm as a gateway to storytelling and self-discovery. Each track evokes vivid, almost mythic imagery: ancestral rituals inside hollow trees, степpe journeys on horseback, echoes of rural Japan at dawn, or ecstatic dances in deep Africa. Blending continuity with his earlier work and an ever-present drive to experiment, Ferarri crafts a richly immersive record where mirrored sounds connect past and future, and rhythmic trance becomes a way of narrating — and recognizing — the unknown.
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