Slagwerkkrant Spotlights Extended Final Drum Section in Snarky Puppy Recurrent Video

Dutch drumming magazine Slagwerkkrant published coverage on March 1, 2026 of a newly released video for "Recurrent," the nearly 14-minute centerpiece from Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest's Somni project, and the piece draws attention to a sustained final section described in the excerpt as "four world‑cla". ProgressiveRockCentral also reported the rollout under the headline "Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest Roll Out 'Recurrent' Music Video."

Somni was captured live over three nights, January 17–19, 2025, in Utrecht and was released November 21, 2025 via GroundUP Music. The project reunites Michael League's GRAMMY-winning collective Snarky Puppy with Metropole Orkest a decade after their 2015 collaboration Sylva, which earned the 2016 GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. ProgressiveRockCentral credits Jules Buckley as conductor on the project, and SnarkyPuppy material situates Metropole Orkest as founded in 1945 and described as the world's only full-time orchestra dedicated to jazz and pop music.

The track "Recurrent" is the album's longest entry, "clocking in at nearly 14 minutes long," and EverythingIsNoise noted Somni's full runtime at 72 minutes with the final 55 seconds given over to applause and a standing ovation. Michael League has said the piece grew from a childhood fever dream: "running through a field as massive metal gears rolled behind him. 'Just at the moment where the first one would start to crush me, I would wake up, soaked in sweat,' he recalls." SnarkyPuppy also describes the track's momentum as "driven by a repeating rhythmic figure that mirrors the terror and relentlessness of the dream," and League adds, "There would be a moment where I would feel like everything was cool … and then they would appear again."

Coverage of the video has emphasized both the improvisational opportunities within "Recurrent" and visual elements tied to Somni. ProgressiveRockCentral included a description of the Somni cover art as "an illustration of tree roots painted in various colors." NPR's New Music Friday segment carried soundbites of "RECURRENT" and "WAVES UPON WAVES," and the NPR transcript states, "And 'Somni,' the new album from Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest, is out now."

For drummers and percussion-focused listeners, the Slagwerkkrant note about a sustained final section—reproduced in the excerpt as "four world‑cla"—is the clearest signal so far that the new "Recurrent" video foregrounds the ensemble's rhythmic engine. Between Somni's live recording dates in January 2025, the Nov. 21, 2025 release on GroundUP Music, and the March 1, 2026 spotlight in drumming press, the video adds a visual chapter to a project built on League's fever-dream motif, Jules Buckley's conducting, and Metropole Orkest's orchestral-for-jazz pedigree.