15 episodes

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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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.

    Sickness Diary with Anna RG

    Sickness Diary with Anna RG

    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 around Anna’s new world and practice, in sickness; and the two discuss the impacts of illness on her ideas of the possibilities of music, engagement with disability justice, and imagining ways that sick and disabled musicians could be better supported, connected, and uplifted.

    • 44 min
    OneBeat Radio

    OneBeat Radio

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

    • 38 min
    A Composer who cannot return home with Marina Sobyanina

    A Composer who cannot return home with Marina Sobyanina

    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 of Putin, and her opposition to his regime only increased when Russia invaded Ukraine last February. In this interview she talks about what it means to be a Russian artist who opposes Putin and the current war in Ukraine.

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

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

    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.

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

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

    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.

    • 36 min
    Roman Garkavenko - Life & Music in the shadow of war

    Roman Garkavenko - Life & Music in the shadow of war

    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.

    • 40 min

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