Monroe, known in the musical world as Sulubika, is an Oʻahu-based street musician. He is a gifted flautist who has spent years traveling with various artists and groups across Turkey, Italy and beyond, eventually making his way to Oʻahu. Urban Honolulu residents may recognize him by the trills of his flute at community parks and well-trod street corners. Monroe recognizes that music, and all forms of art, allow us to tap into a higher consciousness, giving way to our path towards divinity. He recollects his connection to his family, being in the flow state of sound, and his dream of returning home to Los Angeles one day.

Episode Highlights

0:22 Intro

1:11 Los Angeles origins

1:53 Force of truth and good

2:44 Los Angeles music scene - playing the flute

3:55 Traveling the world as a flautist

4:19 Music in Queen Latifah movies

5:00 Mission Impossible [plays song]

6:05 Hidden divinity - force and light

7:11 Birds interacting with music

8:04 Self taught  

8:58 Eric Dolphy and the sensitivity of musicians

9:29 See vs. Look

10:13 Music is a universal language

11:37 Jazz

12:11 Art and music as an entryway to opening of the mind

14:55 Our way of serving; the origin of the podcast

16:48 Traveling across Europe; "Be still and know that I am"  

20:28 Continue traveling to the continental and playing the flute

22:10 Music was an aid to show a deeper and profound reality of consciousness

24:24 Playing music across the island

24:47 Young people and connection to sense of place, culture, home

26:06 "Music will go on"

26:52 Expressing our deepest emotions

Host and Producer: Molly Mamaril

Guitarist: Amund Gismervik