Booker Stardrum

Booker Stardrum is an inventive percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator based in Los Angeles. Known for his work with artists like Weyes Blood, Lee Ranaldo, and Cloud Becomes Your Hand, he is also a visionary artist in his own right. On solo releases like 2021's Crater, he constructs dense, pan-tonal collages of abstract rhythms and processed samples, developed from improvisations and retaining their fluid, unpredictable spirit. Stardrum comes from an experimental and classical music background -- his mother is flutist Stefani Starin, and his father, microtonal comp...