Ukrainian folk ensemble YAGÓDY discuss songs handed down across generations, lyrics using invented phonetic samples, and the theatrical instincts behind their performance at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.

The founding member of Beak> and longtime collaborator to Portishead, Massive Attack, and Robert Plant discusses the bass-first compositions and private creative philosophy behind ‘Fragments,’ a debut solo album assembled from nearly a decade of home recordings.

Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher’s ‘Piano Decompositions’ follows Annea Lockwood’s Piano Transplants into an argument about ecological crisis, political control, and why a burning instrument unsettles us in ways a burning forest does not.

The cellist reflects on twelve years with her quartet, the making of their fourth album, ‘dance! skip! hop!’, a family archive of Black life in Wyoming, and the two figures named CeCe who bookend her path in jazz.

Newark noise-rap duo Dälek discuss the stripped-down political fury of their tenth album ‘Brilliance of a Falling Moon,’ their full-circle collaboration with This Heat’s Charles Hayward, and thirty years of creative freedom maintained on their own terms.

Composer and conductor Miho Hazama discusses her new album Frames, studying with Jim McNeely, and leading the Danish Radio Big Band.

Cellist and composer Tomeka Reid discusses dance! skip! hop!, twelve years with her quartet, Wyoming family history, and the Chicago Jazz String Summit.

Saxophonist Ben Wendel discusses his new album BaRcoDe, teaching, the Village Vanguard, and a career shaped by musical curiosity.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore discuss Tragic Magic, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris in the wake of the LA wildfires.

Montréal avant-jazz quartet Bellbird discusses their Constellation debut The Call, nature-inspired compositions, and what a real collective sounds like.