At the Big Ears Music Festival, KGNU’s Monte Dube spoke with Dalava co-creators Julia Úlehla and Aram Bajakian about their deeply personal, genre-blurring project rooted in Czech and Armenian heritage, ancestral song traditions, and experimental improvisation. They also discussed their latest album Understories, shaped by pandemic-era reflection, mythology, and a shared belief in music as a living, evolving practice of memory, descent, and renewal. (March 2026)