For today’s Daily Discovery we head to Milan, where Al Doum & The Faryds have just released “Arise I”, the first single from their sixth album Ipnagogico, coming 23 January 2026. The ten-member collective recorded at their home base, Guscio Recording Studio, with guitarist and engineer Lorenzo Farolfi capturing twin saxophones that weave through modal progressions, African percussion patterns and analogue synthesisers.

The group formed in 2010 and quickly established Guscio as both workspace and creative hub. Their 2011 debut caught Julian Cope‘s ear, kickstarting a catalogue that now includes Positive Force (2012), Cosmic Love (2014), Spirit Rejoin (2018) with Bongo Joe Records. Bassist Davide “Dome” Domenichini runs Black Sweat Records, which released Freaky People (2021) with La Tempesta Dischi and will handle Ipnagogico through the same partnership. Several members also play in sister project Addict Ameba.

“Arise I” builds from a hypnotic percussion loop, with electric guitar and analogue keys laying the harmonic bed. The saxophones lock into repeating figures while voices rise and fall in gospel-influenced patterns, returning to one line: “What you teach to the others is what you need to learn.” The band developed this arrangement through their typical process: jamming at rehearsals, testing at gigs, then nailing it in the studio without losing the live energy.

After fifteen years working with modal structures and African rhythms, the collective has found its zone, with Ipnagogico promising to push further into that territory.

Stream and listen tot he single HERE