Julia Úlehla and Dálava Forge Ancestral Connections Via Moravian Folk Songs, In-Studio

The duo called Dalava has put out three albums based on old Czech, specifically Moravian, folk songs, sourced from melodies transcribed over 100 years ago by the great- grandfather of Dálava's singer, Julia Úlehla. Their latest record, Understories , uses symbolic birds and stories to set a series of progressively darker, more experimental arrangements that seem to cast those songs adrift in both time and place. Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, John Zorn) explore magic and realism, harnessing the intense emotion in the body memory of ancestral connections as they perform in-studio. -Caryn Havlik Set list: 1. Escape Velocity 2. Entanglement 3. Side Real Time

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This episode was published on Mar 30, 2026.

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