Booker Stardrum

Booker Stardrum is a composer, percussionist, producer, and educator. His compositions are sculptural, carved from the dense layering of instruments and manipulated samples, a pantonal harmonic sense, and an intuitive approach to rhythm. Stardrum has released two solo records (‘Temporary etc.’ in 2018 and ‘Dance And’ in 2015) and will release his third, ‘CRATER,’ on 7/2/2021. Throughout the last decade, Stardrum has performed, toured, and recorded with Lee Ranaldo, Weyes Blood, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Landlady, and the Young Jean Lee Theater Company, in addition to countless experimental and improvisational collaborations. He has toured in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America and has performed at such festivals as Meltdown (U.K.), Brighton (U.K), Rewire (NL), Le Guess Who (NL), Festival Bo:m (ROK), Hopscotch (US) and Ecstatic Music (US). His discography includes solo and collaborative releases on independent labels such as NNA Tapes, Northern Spy Records, Mexican Summer, Saddle Creek, Luminelle, Prom Night Records and Home Tapes. In 2020-2021, Stardrum developed multiple collaborative, cross disciplinary, remote projects, including commissioned works by National Sawdust and West Den Haag.