Somni is the second collaborative album by Snarky Puppy — the GRAMMY-winning, genre-fluid collective led by bassist-composer Michael League — and Metropole Orkest, the Netherlands-based hybrid ensemble renowned for fusing jazz, classical, and popular music on a symphonic scale. Captured live over three nights (January 17–19, 2025) in Utrecht, the project reunites the two groups a decade after their first joint effort, Sylva — an orchestral suite released in 2015 that earned the GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album the following year. Somni will be released November 21, 2025 via GroundUP Music.

While Sylva looked outward, painting cinematic portraits of the natural world, Somni turns inward to the intangible realm of dreams. The title comes from the Catalan word for “dream,” reflecting League’s life in Barcelona. He began composing the material in rural Japan, where he spent a month alone in an Airbnb. “I just kind of gave myself a month to write,” he recalls. “It was in the middle of nowhere … completely alone.” Those sketches, shaped by introspection and stillness, were later developed with the full Snarky Puppy lineup — now featuring four drummers — and the 50-plus-member Metropole Orkest. “It’s about diving into a bunch of different elements of this thing that we do every day,” League says, “that nobody understands.”