It’s been 10 years since Snarky Puppy first collaborated with the Netherlands-based jazz and pop orchestra Metropole Orkest on Sylva, leading to the first of the Texan fusion collective’s five Grammys so far.
Band leader Michael League relocated to Barcelona a few years ago in an attempt to escape the grind of US politics. New album Somni – largely written by League in an Airbnb in rural Japan over the course of a month – implicitly comes to terms with the fact there’s little to no hope of escaping The Trump Show.
