Ambokile'

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MAY 2006
PAUL AARON, CEO, WARRIOR FM RADIO

In 2006 often it seems enough to simply be able to walk through your words as an MC, it seems any part of your conversation will make the cut for many contemporary MC's vocal parts on their records. As long as the six-pack or booty is there it seems true poets and lyrical percussionists need not apply. It is this climate that makes LA MC artist and Entrepreneur Ambokile’ stand out like a shining beacon in what some understand as the genre of Rap music. Ambokile’ leads the light in a Renaissance of skilled lyrical, rhythmical orators of the calibre of Bahamadia, Rakim, Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets.

From her first release "Simply Ambokile’" in late 2004 Ambokile's notoriety and repp as a skilled and serious MC, artist and performer has been steadily building from the coffee houses, poetry readings & cable TV shows of LA, USA, across California State and now her effect is rippling out across the globe to Europe and beyond as airplay and a following builds.

Working with a variety of producers from California, Ambokile’ has produced contemporary classics such as "Journey" incorporating Neo Jazz Funk instrumentation and lyrical flow that Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson could easily have been behind.

With the Ground work and foundation set, Ambokile’ is now set to take things to another level with her new self-owned label, Ambolism.

Performances in California and beyond are already booked and European dates are now being planned. Using her expertise found from working in other aspects of the music business such as its legal side, Ambokile’ is now applying her “Ambolism” musical philosophy channeled via her fellow artists who she is also signing to her new label, Ambolism.

Ambokile's latest single "Ye Did Run Well" (out May 2006) is a more minimal electro funk work out, the flow still unstoppable with head tipped towards the Bay area renaissance about to explode world wide. The West Coast has been slept on for too long, Ambokile’ seems poised to reposition the area sound as thee sound others wish to copy. For the model, actress, songwriter and poet Ambokile’, the future seems bright.

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(Live air interview heard throughout the month of May 2006 and feature on Bompire Magazine Quarterly Publication June - August 2006)

The New Queen of the Spoken Word Movement
By D. Black
www.globalgrooving.com

The history of poetry goes back centuries, but the spoken word music scene has been around since the 60’s with the Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and Angela Davis to name a few. Though the popularity of the spoken word scene picked up steam in the 90’s, it has yet to grab the mainstream music establishment. Ambokile’ (pronounced am-boe-key-lay), an artist out of Beverly Hills, California, is out to change that in a big way. Through my interview with her, I find out not only is that her goal but it’s been her calling since birth.

D.Black: What’s happening, lady?
Ambokile’: How are you? I can finally put a voice with the face (laughing).

D.Black: What the readers will be witnessing is the power of networking because without myspace.com, I would have never come across your site! How has myspace.com worked out for you?

Ambokile’: Myspace.com has opened up new worlds for me, you know? Being able to have the opportunity to meet new people and to collaborate with other artists has been great. I think the music and entertainment industry (especially the music industry), there’s so much division. My goal is to get people together, to collaborate because what you put out there comes back, good or bad.

D.Black: That is something that is need badly. So tell me the meaning of your name?
Ambokile’: Ambokile’ means, “God has redeemed me”. My full name, Ambokile’ Kokayi means, “God has redeemed me to summon the people”, so that’s my mission.

I have children and they are named according to their purpose in life and that’s an African tradition. Our ancestors named their children according to their purpose, so when you say, “Ambokile’, I hold my head high because you’ve recalled to my memory exactly what my purpose is. So, if “God has redeemed me to summon the people”, my job is to bring consciousness within any avenue God provides for me to bring to the people.

D.Black: When did you begin writing?
Ambokile’: I started writing when I was seven years old which is when my mom submitted my first piece to Essence magazine.

D.Black: Wow!
Ambokile’: My mom is a writer also and she’s in the process of writing a Christian book. I grew up watching her on stage. She was a spoken word artist when Angela Davis and Maya Angelou were out there. So, I was exposed at a very early age. I was very shy as a child and when I would write I’d write about my pain because I never talked. People used to call me “Smiley”. The only way I could communicate was with my pen and paper.

D.Black: Tell me about your first project, “Simply Ambokile”. How long did that project take?
Ambokile’: Actually, it took about a month.

D.Black: That’s kind of Prince like to complete an album that fast!
Ambokile’: Yeah, Prince is one of my mentors anyway. The first album was produced by LA’s own, Ken Larish. He works with a lot of up and coming artists and now major artists in the music industry and I was referred to him by my acting coach (I have an acting background). I was ready to pay for my studio time when I went to the studio. He put me on the spot and said, “Let me see what you got”. Everything that I have written is in my head and I did a piece called, “Release Your Mind”. Once I finished, he just stared at me and said, “You have so much talent! How could you remember all of that?” My response to him was that I have lived it.

D.Black: You give a lot of yourself to the listener when writing these songs. How does that make you feel?
Ambokile’: It brought me to tears and it still brings me to tears to hear or to be aware now that people are accepting or feeling what I write. The power of words and music paints a picture. Spoken word and musical artists in the music industry paint that picture through their emotions. So, to have pieces of my life, like when I was a little girl writing in my closet and for 20 years later to be able to share those same feelings with an audience and to have them grasp it and grow from it, it’s the most powerful feeling in the world. It’s more than money. It’s like a one on one union with God.

D.Black: How often do you hear that you are a deep person?
Ambokile’: All the time.

D.Black: So tell me about the new project, Ye Did Run Well.
Ambokile’: “Ye Did Run Well” is a promo CD that is being released on April 30th, and we are doing the video for the song, “Over” in mid-May. The first single, “Ye Did Run Well”, was produced by Mr. Myc of Private Moments Productions. The complete album will be released in November. Also I wanted to give love to Bompire Records and Magazine.

D.Black: What would you want the listeners to take away from this album?
Ambokile’: I want them to know that there’s no such thing as the word, “no” and “impossible”. When you believe in yourself, God brings people from all corners of the Universe to help you support your dreams.


D.Black: What are the words you live by?
Ambokile’: (without hesitation) Believe in yourself because the power of belief moves mountains!!!

D.Black: Let’s switch gears for a minute. With everything that you’re doing, is there a man in your life?
Ambokile’: No, there was a man in my life and that’s why I wrote the song, “Over”. I would say that the men in my life are my sons. I would say that the MAN in my life is GOD.

D.Black: What do you do for fun?
Ambokile’: I write!! (LOL) No, I like taking the kids to Hip-Hop classes, taking my son to guitar class. I love going to the movies and to the beach. The love of my life is socializing, meeting people and networking. I love being creative.

D.Black: Well, I think that you are a phenomenal woman. Good luck with the project!
Ambokile’: Thank you and God bless.

Ambokile’ is woman on a mission. Her life’s journey has brought her here, through her beliefs, both mental and spiritual, that this is her time, simply to spread the word that nothing is impossible. To simply join the positive forces of this music industry to raise consciousness through spoken word. To simply achieve her goal and her purpose in life.

To be Simply . . . Ambokile’.

- D. Black - Love Sessions - May 2006

PRESS RELEASE
Soul Café - February 25, 2004

If you like Ersula Rucker, Sara Jones, The Brooklyn Funk Essentials...

Cool, smooth, funky, ambient, soulful... and that's just the music.
The euphonious sounds of a drum snare, high hat, bass lick, guitar strum, muted horn, and much more can be heard over and under the sexy soothing voice of one of the brightest spoken word artists to come out of the Sunshine State.
Titled "Simply... Ambokilé", this 6 track EP feeds your mind & soul lyrically and musically, providing you with the audio/spiritual substance missing in an industry oft times driven by form alone.

This project is a double threat of deep, fluid, lyrically luscious, poetic prose drizzled over equally colorful, soul grooving tracks produced by L.A.'s own, Ken Larish.

L.A. poet, Ambokilé (pronounced: am-bo-key-lay) takes us on a sensually conscious journey through a world seen by the eyes, felt by the heart, and contemplated by the mind of a "woman of expansion." She flows seamlessly over each track, touching on everything from love, life, relationships, intellectual & spiritual enlightenment, and the evolution & revolution of the mind, body and soul.

On each of the the 6 soul searching, "cerebral trips", Ambokilé uses a sultry smooth, introspective flow to move visual words and clever rhymes over a canvas of melodically liquid beats and well placed instrumentation.
Her intricately passionate lyrics paint a vividly fresh picture of the life, times and the world of one of the most exciting new voices out.

Review supplied by: Robb Jackson (Soul Café/www.SoulCafe.net)
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