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Photo Credit: Annemone<\/em><\/p>\n Snarky Puppy has announced the impending release of their new album, Somni<\/em>, due on November 21, 2025, via GroundUP Music. The imminent collection marks the second time bandleader and composer Michael League has collaborated with the Netherlands-based jazz-pop orchestra, Metropole Orkest, stemming from their Grammy-winning 2015 output, Sylvia.<\/em> Coupled with the promise of new music is a preview, administered via the first single \u201cWaves Upon Waves,\u201d and its official music video.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWaves Upon Waves\u201d presents an illustrious, sweeping soundscape featuring an extensive display of instrumentalists, ranging from Snarky Puppy\u2019s own collective of horns, percussion, strings, and keys contributors, and more than 50 orchestra members, guided by conductor Jules Buckley. Cinematic at times, the track, which lingers under the eight-minute marker, represents a continuation of Snarky Puppy\u2019s brazen and collaborative approach to mixing genres and expanding upon the definition of fluidity in music.\u00a0<\/p>\n Somni <\/em>combines the best from collective units\u2019 live performances over three nights, January 17-19, 2025, in Utrecht, Netherlands, which was heralded for its rotating lineup of world-class players, who have spun a web to connect their combined capacity for funk, jazz, soul, and global music traditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n The unexplainable creativity of the dream realm inspired the new set of music, which sparked the idea for the LP title, translated as \u201cdream\u201d from Catalan, an influence of League\u2019s life in Barcelona. As a further reflection of the album\u2019s global nature, much of the material was composed in rural Japan, where League spent a month writing in solitude. \u201cI just kind of gave myself a month to write,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt was in the middle of nowhere \u2026 completely alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to the totality of his experience, League continues, \u201cIt\u2019s by far the most ambitious project we\u2019ve ever done \u2026 and it was one of the smoothest records we\u2019ve ever made. Every individual team did their job with so much care and love \u2014 from the camera operators to our production. The instant feedback was the warmest we\u2019ve ever had. It was encouraging to know that after 22 years of doing what we do, the music is still reaching people.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the official music video for \u201cWaves Upon Waves,\u201d and pre-order<\/a> Somni.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n