Episode 41: THE PILGRIMAGE - Part 5: WAITING ROOM  - with Hania Rani

Ukrainian Field Notes / 8 October 2026 / with walakos Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist: walakos - 1,74B COP Anton Slepakov / Andrii Solokov (warнякання) - втрати Anton Slepakov / Andrii Solokov (warнякання) - Тарантіно Ліс Nosaj Thing - My Soul or Something (Instrumental) Mariia&Magdalyna and Bunht - Earth is a beautiful place SI Process & Dennis Adu - Just to be a human

Ukrainian Field Notes / 10 September 2026 / with Daryna - Aza Nizi Maza

The fourth installment of a five-part pilgrimage exploring the 2026 BIG EARS festival. The drummer of LA quintet SML, Booker Stardrum reflects on the group’s remarkable six-set residency, where groove-based improvisation pivoted from dance party to delicate texture, fueled by the rare alchemy of strong personalities who refuse to dominate. Stardrum also discusses Close-up On The Outside, his deep new solo album for We Jazz, a quiet meditation that showcases his unique compositional voice apart from his collaborators. Against the backdrop of a festival that felt like a love letter to LA’s rise as a gravitational center for contemporary music, he notes the cross-pollination on display: “When we lock in, we lock in. It’s an honor to play with musicians of that talent.” Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined, or send a one-time donation via PayPal. The first two seasons are also available on Bandcamp. I’m very grateful for any support, which will help ensure future episodes. Interview recorded in Knoxville, 28 March 2026 Produced and mixed in St Louis, July 2026 SOUND PROPOSITIONS podcast Episode 41: THE PILGRIMAGE Part 4: IN RESIDENCE - with Booker Stardrum LINKS Booker Stardrum (Bandcamp) SML (Bandcamp) Cloud Becomes Your Hand International Anthem We Jazz Joyful Noise Big Ears TRACKLIST ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, YEAR) [Greg Saunier soundchecking for Joyful Noise] SP INTRO Booker Stardrum, “Inside Sounds” (Close-up On The Outside, 2026) Cloud Becomes Yours Hand, “Doggy Paddle (Bogart the Sorghum)” (doggy paddle, 2011) Cloud Becomes Yours Hand, “Third Avenue Slime” (Rest in Fleas, 2016) Booker Stardrum, “Telluric (ft. Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Logan Hone)” (Close-up On The Outside, 2026) Harry Partch and ensemble/Danlee Mitchell, “Castor & Pollux: A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini” (The World Of Harry Partch, 1968) Booker Stardrum & Chris Williams, “Ballast” (Relay, 2023) SML, “Plankton” (How You Been, 2025) Booker Stardrum, “Close-up On The Outside” (Close-up On The Outside, 2026) Booker Stardrum, “Dusk (ft. Chris Williams)” (Close-up On The Outside, 2026) Booker Stardrum, “Diorama” (CRATER, 2021) SML, “Rubber Tree Dance” (Small Medium Large, 2024) SML, “Moving Walkway” (How You Been, 2025) Gregory Uhlmann, “Back Scratch” (Extra Stars, 2026) Jeff Parker, Josh Johnson, Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose “2019 07-08 I” (Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy, 2022) Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, "Freakadelic" (The Way Out of Easy, 2024) SML, “Window Sill Song” (Small Medium Large, 2024) SML, “Taking out the Trash” (How You Been, 2025) SML, “The Drums” (Spontaneous Music Live, 2026) SML XL (Jeff Parker and Mikel Patrick Avery), [excerpt] (Live from Greyhound at Big Ears, 28 March 2026) Play Time, “Open the Door, Joey” (Magic Object, 2026) Booker Stardrum and Evan Shornstein, “AND A GOOD MONDAY” (OOPS!, 2026) Booker Stardrum, “Five Finger Cloud” (‘Temporary etc.’, 2018) Booker Stardrum, “Drim Dram” (‘Dance And’, 2015) Booker Stardrum, “Phantom Near Interlude” (Flowers Not Bombs, 2026) —- Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

The third installment of a five-part pilgrimage exploring the 2026 BIG EARS festival. The harpist Mary Lattimore discusses her duo set with Julianna Barwick in a Knoxville church, where their ethereal songs took on added weight. She reflects on Tragic Magic, their recent full-length born from processing sadness while seeking sparkle, including a song written for them by Roger Eno and a cover of Vangelis' “Rachel's Song" bookended by field recordings of the first rain after the LA fires. She also discusses working with 18th century harps, scoring moving images, and why she likens the festival to summer camp.

The second installment of a five-part pilgrimage exploring the 2026 BIG EARS festival. The Welsh guitarist brought her "Welsh primitive" to a dive bar in Knoxville—Appalachian fingerpicking channeled through 90s punk energy, delivered barefoot and shredding by noon with thumb picks in hand. She discusses reinvention over preservation (tradition, she says, is just "good licks"), her first-ever pilgrimage to Appalachia (and its surprising links to Wales), last year's ACL-beloved Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, her recent WFMU live album, and her surprisingly effective duo with the "diametrically opposed" Hayden Pedigo.Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined, or send a one-time donation via PayPal. The first two seasons are also available on Bandcamp. I’m very grateful for any support, which will help ensure future episodes.s Interviews recorded in Knoxville, 29 March 2026Produced and mixed in St Louis, July 2026LINKSGwenifer Raymond Bandcamp WFMU Big Ears TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR) Gwenifer Raymond, “Worn Out Blues” (Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, 2020)Orcutt Shelley Miller, “Unsafe At Any Speed” (Orcutt Shelley Miller, 2025)SP INTROGwenifer Raymond, “Bliws Afon Tâf” (Live at WFMU, 2026)Gwenifer Raymond, “One Day You’ll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed” (Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark, 2025)Gwenifer Raymond, “Requiem for John Fahey” (You Never Were Much of a Dancer, 2018)Gwenifer Raymond, “The Three Deaths of Red Spectre” (The Three Deaths of Red Spectre, 2018)Nirvana, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” (MTV Unplugged in New York, 1994)Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter], “In the Pines” [1944] (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?(Lead Belly Legacy Vol. 1), 1996)[soundcheck]Mississippi John Hurt, “Frankie (And Albert)” (The Early Blues Roots Of Bob Dylan, 2020)Hayden Pedigo, “Smoked” (I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away, 2025)Gwenifer Raymond, “Eulogy for Dead French Composer” (Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, 2020)Gwenifer Raymond, “Sometimes There’s Blood” (Sometimes There’s Blood, 2015)Gwenifer Raymond, “Bleeding Finger Blues” (You Never Were Much of a Dancer, 2018)Gwenifer Raymond, “Bonfire of the Billionaires” (Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark, 2025)—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.