We both had some background in jazz, international music, Brazilian music, all this other kind of stuff we just really love that made us fall in love with making music. Phil: Well, I think our backgrounds definitely inform us in the way we approach music. In a world where people sometimes learn from the school of life or school of hard knocks, why do you feel like traditional music education is important? Once we realized we were both so similar on that end, it sprung from there. That's when we just connected and it was like let's get together, and play some music sometime. that he had talent from just the style of what he played. I heard Phil play a couple of chords, and just right away, I knew that he had ears. And there's always an instrument around at a Berklee party so there was a keyboard around or a piano or something. We knew each other but hadn't really spoken. So a few years ago out here in L.A, there was a birthday party and we ran into each other. and it was there that we made mutual friends. Going back a little bit, how did you two come together? When did you meet and how did you decide to come together as a duo?ĭawaun: We both went to Berklee College of Music. From there, it was just a race to the finish line.

Whatever the emotion or the mood of the music, I let that inform me as to what kind of lyrics I'd be writing for it. Usually how it works is I'll take the basic outline of the song that we built from the ground up and start writing lyrics to them. We started together and pretty much built from what I ended up completing in my room. Phil: Yeah, it was a really good way to start the record. Then Phil started to get some ideas, and started to go into his cave and writing. We just played all the instruments and recorded. We took about two months and we went into a really cool studio that had a bunch of instruments. We didn't know if it was going to be an EP, an album or just a few songs but we knew that we wanted to start in the same room by building some music, playing and jamming out. Did you start out with a concept, and build out songs from that or did you maybe start off with a song and say, 'We can actually build a whole project around this'?ĭawaun: We knew that we wanted to make a body of work. Walk through the journey of creating this EP. That we hope to be worthy enough to be ambassadors. Not just that we hope for now, but something that we aspire to be. And so that's what 'Ambassadors' stem from. If they were to send someone from here to represent the music section of what earthlings do, we would like to be part of that group. We wanted to be people that represented what the best of humanity was.

Where does the name Ambassadors of Earth come from?ĭawaun: When we were thinking that we wanted to think about our philosophies and sensibilities in music.

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