Brian Anthony Moreland joins Chrystal Genesis to discuss what it means to produce theatre at the highest level. As Broadway's only Black lead producer, Brian has become one of the industry's most influential creative forces, bringing productions such as The Piano Lesson, Othello and Joe Turner's Come and Gone to the stage. In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the producer's role, working with actors including Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer", the enduring importance of August Wilson's work and why theatre remains one of the most powerful spaces for storytelling. Together, they chat about representation, creative leadership and the challenge of balancing artistic ambition with commercial risk in one of the most competitive creative industries.

José González joins Chrystal Genesis in Brooklyn to discuss his fifth studio album, Against the Dying of the Light. Born in Sweden and raised by Argentine parents, José has spent over two decades creating introspective, emotionally resonant music that blends folk, classical guitar traditions and poetic songwriting. In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss language, identity, and the role music can play during politically and socially fractured times. Together, they explore multilingual songwriting, Swedish and Argentine cultural influences, the spiritual quality often associated with his work, and how ideas around human flourishing, collaboration, and resistance shape the new album. The episode also touches on audience loyalty, artistic evolution, weather and geography as creative forces, and the guitar techniques and global musical traditions woven throughout his sound.

Ria and Kevol Graham join Chrystal Genesis for cocktails and conversation at Kokomo, their family-run, acclaimed Caribbean restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Partners in life and work, the couple talk about opening Kokomo just before the Covid pandemic and building a hospitality business while raising three children in New York City. They discuss Caribbean food as layered and plural rather than singular, their approach to hospitality as an extension of family, and how community, multicultural identity, care, and creativity shape the Kokomo experience. Ria and Kevol reflect on blending Caribbean heritage with New York life, developing a menu connected to memory and experimentation, creating a space that brings people together, and how hospitality can function as a form of cultural storytelling. They also speak about the Kokomo Foundation and their fundraising efforts in support of Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.

Artist Brittney Leanne Williams joins Chrystal Genesis to talk about her evocative figurative work, where architecture, landscape, and color blur together, and the body opens into a space of transcendence, memory, revelation, suffering and the mystical. Based in Los Angeles and born in Pasadena, Brittney has steadily built a reputation as one of today’s most exciting, thoughtful figurative painters. In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how Brittney explores spirituality and how she uses the color red as a signal for the Black experience. They trace the evolution of her practice, from portals and prayer to layered storytelling that engages with presence, absence and witnessing. Along the way, they reflect on her early years in Pasadena, her formative time in Chicago, and how nature, along with her personal and cultural history, informs her work. Together, they dig into the creative process, the role of mystery in painting and the questions Brittney is currently asking herself in the studio. This episode is an engaging and intimate look into the mind of an artist shaping contemporary figurative painting with spiritual depth, color and narrative complexity.

Writer, DJ, lecturer and creative provocateur Elijah joins Chrystal Genesis to talk about his new book Close The App, Make The Ting: Transformative Prompts For The Modern Artist. In this wide-ranging conversation, they chat about how his Yellow Squares project has grown from Instagram prompts into a global project of installations, lectures, billboards, and collaborations. They dig into his early story in London’s independent music and art scenes, co-founding influential grime label Butterz, his thoughts on his Jamaican heritage, and the complex beauty of Black British identity. Together, they chat about creative sustainability, echo chambers, and how embracing friction and feedback can power visionary work. This episode is a fabulous dive into ideas built to push culture forward.

UK Singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Emma-Jean Thackray joins Chrystal Genesis to talk about her new album, Weirdo, an ambitious, deeply personal project written, performed, produced, mixed, and arranged entirely by Emma-Jean in her South London flat. In this episode, they discuss how grief, neurodivergence, and resilience shaped the record, which blends elements of jazz, funk, soul, grunge, and pop. They explore her early path into musicianship, how isolation and creativity came together in the making of Weirdo, and why embracing your weirdness can create a powerful sense of self. The conversation touches on vulnerability, community, and finding your home in music, with tracks from Weirdo, out now via Brownswood Recordings and Parlophone Records, featured throughout.