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Kamau Abayomi · A bridge between worlds

Poetry is the highest
state of all
art forms.

Rooted in Black American creative traditions and decades of experiential engagement with African and Asian metaphysical practices, Kamau moves between sound, poetry, movement, visual art and energy cultivation as one living expression.

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Kyoto · Bali · San Francisco · OaklandArtist in practice

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Kamau Abayomi

Poetry · Sound · Image · Movement

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Kamau Abayomi is an interdisciplinary artist, mystic poet and Afrohouse recording artist whose work explores poetry as a channel to the divine. Rooted in Black American creative traditions and decades of engagement with African and Asian spiritual practices, he brings written and spoken word, music, visual art and movement into a shared exploration of consciousness, identity and the art of living.

A two-time international poetry slam champion and initiator of Bali’s spoken word movement, Kamau is the founder and host of All Soul Everything. His creative world encompasses visionary fiction, poetic memoir, oracle writing and Asemystic visual art. His current interdisciplinary project, ÀṢẸ, brings these currents into an invocation of life force, clarity and creative command.

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The artist and the work

Emerging from the poetry communities of San Francisco and Oakland, Kamau earned the title of Best Poet at the 1999 Oakland Poetry Slam Finals and went on to win the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Poetry Slam twice. His approach treats language as more than storytelling: a means of self-inquiry, remembrance and connection with the unseen dimensions of life.

During more than two decades in Asia, he has helped shape Bali’s spoken word culture through performances, workshops and community gatherings. As founder and host of All Soul Everything, he creates participatory spaces where poetry, soulful music and open expression bring artists and audiences into conversation.

His literary works include GODBODY (2015), visionary fiction set in a mystically illuminated San Francisco; #METHREE (2017), a poetic memoir exploring vulnerability, sexuality, love and the passage from boyhood to manhood; and Ma’at Meditations (2025), an oracle book centered on truth, balance and intuitive knowing.

As a recording artist, Kamau brings poetic depth and spiritually grounded lyricism to Afrohouse. His collaborations include “More Bongo Please” with Louis Bongo, alongside releases with MoBlack, Moon Rocket, M. Caporale, VNICVM and Paso Doble. ÀṢẸ extends this practice through an Afro-diasporic meeting of hip-hop, dancehall, Afrobeats, Afrohouse and Japanese ambient textures.

In visual art, he calls his language of symbols and intuitive marks Asemystic Art, joining asemic writing with mystical expression. His exhibitions include Yasuke’s Hidden Shrine in Nara, Japan, and Evaporate Until Infinite in Bali, Indonesia. Through Tuluvi Arts, co-created with Nanaka Abayomi, he also explores the relationship between creative expression, energetic awareness and embodied spiritual practice.

Now building a creative base in Kyoto, Kamau continues to work across performance, literature, sound, visual art and intimate immersions. Across these forms, his central inquiry remains the same: how can art deepen our relationship with ourselves, one another and the mystery of being alive?

Air Bending
is Real.

...But Not The Goal.

“The powers of the mind, the psychic senses, the inner vision, the knowledge that comes by identity; all these and a hundred other forms of mastery are latent in man’s nature. But these are not the object of our seeking; they are only the natural results and outward signs of self-development and inner change.”

Sri Aurobindo