Arowah or Musical Meditation: POWER UP Music Creator
Arowah seeks to embody the role of the artist as philosopher, community builder and collective healer, with their work a meditation on the social and the spiritual. They put faith in the almost mystical power of music to speak to souls and connect us with each other, heal hearts, open eyes and be a powerful force of change in the world.
Having danced around many scenes and styles including jazz, DIY, western classical and dance, they comfortably move through different worlds, from shredding guitar solos in punk bands or DJing their UKG remixes at clubs to having their work for string quartet premiered at concert halls. Through their extraordinarily multi-hyphenate career as a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, poet, activist, radio host, founder and sound healer, they have always remained uncategorizable, defined only by fluidity.
As Resident Musician at St George’s Hospital, they developed a passion for using music to promote healing and began a deep study in different sound healing traditions including Nada Yoga, Tibetan Mantra and Afri-Sufic chanting. Inspired, they founded Musical Meditation, combining jazz, sound healing and guided meditation for deep relaxation. They bring music into their activism and activism into their music, performing their politically charged songs at protests and fundraisers, including to 15,000 at Trafalgar Square for a Climate Justice march. They’ve also used music as a means to found community and fight for greater inclusivity in the music industry with their Jelly’s Jams nights and their organisation ‘Queer Jazz’, co-founded with Tina Edwards.