The OneBeat Podcast

Dec 11 2023

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The OneBeat Podcast features conversations with musicians and artist leaders around the globe, as we ask the question at the heart of OneBeat’s philosophy: Does music and creative collaboration make an impact in the world? How is our global community of musical leaders affecting change? In this podcast, we will speak to artists who are engaging their communities through music in many different ways. Each season features one-on-one interviews and discussions with artists from the OneBeat community and beyond.

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Sickness Diary with Anna RG

Dec 11 2023 44 mins

In this seventh episode of Season 2, Kyla-Rose speaks with artist Anna RG, about her navigation of chronic illness, since contracting COVID in the early days of the pandemic. With a practice previously grounded in Appalachian folk music, she is a fiddler, banjo player, filmmaker, archivist, visual artist and researcher -- a storyteller in many forms. This conversation centers aroun

OneBeat Radio

Jul 11 2023 38 mins

Intergalactic kwaai-diva Umlilo takes listeners on a deep dive through OneBeat’s vast musical vault.

A Composer who cannot return home with Marina Sobyanina

Mar 08 2023 40 mins

In this fifth episode of Season 2 we return to a conversation about the ongoing war in Ukraine, this time with accomplished Russian composer Marina Sobyanina. For more than a decade she has lived in Bern, Switzerland. Her work contains and fuses a wide range of genres including contemporary classical music, experimental jazz, and sound design. Marina has long been a vocal opponent

The Sounds of Kenya’s Past, Present and Future Part 2, with KMRU

Jan 19 2023 28 mins

In the final part of a OneBeat diptych series episode, Kenyan ambient artist KMRU joins Nyokabi Kariũki in a conversation about the importance of archiving sound, and what the repatriation of sonic archives can do for the past, present, and possible futures of people from the African continent.

The Sounds of Kenya's Past, Present & Future Part I

Dec 16 2022 36 mins

In this episode, guest produced by Nyokabi Kariũki, Kenyan musicians and music-lovers share how they are using sound and music to recount stories of the country’s past, present, and to foretell its future.

Roman Garkavenko - Life & Music in the shadow of war

Nov 17 2022 40 mins

In the second of a series of interviews focusing on music and musicians in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine, talented bass player and OneBeat 2014 alumnus Roman Garkavenko discussed his coming of age as a superfan of Queen, and the limitations of music in the context of unimaginable violence.

Margaryta Kulichova - A Tiny String Between Us

Aug 25 2022 62 mins

Ukrainian singer-songwriter and organizer Margaryta “Margot” Kulichova candidly questions the relevance of music-making in this time, and explains what keeps her fight for peace going.

Bajram "Kafu" Kinolli - Between Two Fires

Dec 07 2021 35 mins

OneBeat 2015 alumnus Bajram “Kafu” Kinolli discusses his upbringing as a religious Sufi Muslim in a small city in Kosovo during periods of unrest and war in the 80s and 90s; where violence has affected the lives of the people of the Balkans, and discusses how music — which has been intertwined with both violence, survival, peacemaking, and even humor — can play a role in he

Anton Maskeliade

Oct 06 2021 26 mins

In this - the 7th and penultimate episode of Season 1, we connect with an alumnus of our very first OneBeat Program, Moscow-based Anton Maskeliade, who is a pioneer in many ways: as an experimental electronic artist, and as the founder of a music school that guides people -- with any level of musical training -- through the process of composing and producing their own original musi

Pierce Freelon

Sep 07 2021 32 mins

Episode 6 of the OneBeat Podcast features an insightful and moving conversation with artist, activist and Afrofuturist Pierce Freelon, who lives and works in Durham, NC. Pierce talks about the power and burden of speaking truth to power, about visioning futures, and about honoring ancestry and family.