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ABOUT AROWAH

 

HEALER


 Arowah (formerly Anjelica/Jelly Cleaver) is an award winning and internationally recognised musician. Having been a Resident Musician at St George’s Hospital for a year and a half, they developed a deep interest in how music could help with healing and started to explore different sound healing traditions. After attending the Plum Village meditation retreat and receiving the five mindfulness trainings and the dharma name Healing Harmony of the Source, they decided to take this interest further in leading guided meditations for healing. They did their 200hr teacher training in Nada Yoga (the yoga of sound) and traditional Sound Healing at Nada Yoga School in Rishikesh, India, studied Tibetan mantra under Drukmo Gyal, and Sankofic mantra under Fred Johnson, and went on to found Musical Meditation. They are also a qualified somatics practitioner and mental health first aider and bring a trauma-informed approach to their work. 



ARTIST


Arowah sees the role of an artist as a philosopher, community builder and healer, with their work being a meditation on the social and the spiritual. Having danced around many scenes and styles including jazz, punk, experimental, classical, disco and dance, they have always remained uncategorizable, defined only by fluidity. 


They move freely from composing for orchestra to performing on line-ups with some of the UK’s most exciting DIY and indie bands, and to playing Afro-Brazilian jazz mainstage at Brazil’s largest Black culture festival. A familiar face across several music scenes, they’ve performed with Angel Bat David, Rebecca Vasmant, Jalen Ngonda and Liv Winter, supported Ishmael Ensemble, Lady Blackbird, Steam Down and Public Service Broadcasting and been label mates with Sports Team, English Teacher, Binker and Moses and Theon Cross.  Self-releasing various artist projects including Jelly Cleaver, B.H.A.M. and All Day Breakfast Cafe, they have amassed 15 million streams across all platforms.  


Enjoying an extraordinarily multi-hyphenate career in music, the full list of talents is producer, composer, arranger, poet, guitarist, bassist, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (including keyboards, saxophone, percussion and others), activist, founder and community builder, DJ, studio and mix engineer, event curator, radio host and producer, music journalist, label owner and sound healer.



ACTIVIST


Alongside performing around the world and receiving praise from key tastemakers, they have embodied the artist as activist by bringing music into their activism and activism into their music. They have performed their politically charged songs at many protests and fundraisers, including to 15,000 at Trafalgar Square and 60,000 outside Parliament for Climate Justice marches. They've been commissioned by activist groups Global Justice Now and Debt Justice to write compositions addressing vaccine apartheid and neo-colonial debt agreements. Creating a workshop on ‘How to Be An Active Anti-racist’ in light of the Black Lives Matter Movement, they brought the workshop to Brainchild music festival as well as giving it at protests, to universities and to many regional groups of Extinction Rebellion. They also founded Healing Justice Collective to connect various Healing Justice practitioners, as well as forming an Arts and Culture Sangha for cultural workers to practice meditation together.


They have also fought to make the music industry more inclusive and diverse. They have often performed in all-female or queer bands as well as working with female engineers and producers, as women are shockingly under-represented in these industries. They led an all-female disco band ‘All Day Breakfast Cafe’, who’s debut EP received over 1,000,000 plays, landing them on the cover of Spotify’s ‘Jazz UK’ playlist, and selling out shows at Pizza Express Holborn, Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Rooms and two nights at Ronnie Scott’s. 


They founded one of the first jam nights in the UK to have an explicitly all female, queer or BIPOC house band, and regularly gave artists their first gig or radio play with their brand ‘Jelly’s Jams’. Going through many incarnations, ‘Jelly’s Jams’ was an emerging artist showcase, radio show, experimental improvisation night and record label which supported many artists in the grassroots London music scene. Described as ‘joyful, intimate’ and ‘welcoming’ by Jazzwise, the nights showcased artists like O., Léa Sen, Quinn Oulton, Xvngo, Ebi Soda and Holysseus Fly as well as interviewing Goat Girl, Shunaji and more. 


Launching for Pride 2023, they co-founded Queer Jazz alongside DJ Tina Edwards, with the aim of celebrating queer jazz artists and nurturing a nascent queer jazz scene. Queer Jazz have been featured in Clash Magazine, Jazzwise and Jazz FM and funded by Arts Council England.

QUOTES

NPR

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

 "jack-of-all-trades multi-instrumentalist and vocalist making waves" 

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

"her otherworldly take on jazz by utilizing her DIY/punk scene influences and integrating political activism within her work makes the century and half year-old genre something entirely new… on a clear path towards greatness"

Clash Music

Gabriel Theodros, KEXP

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

 "a pillar of the London jazz scene, being an event organiser, activist and poet alongside an outstanding musician" 

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

 "outstanding... one to watch for sure" 

LOUD WOMEN

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

Twisted Soul

 "an absurdly talented musician and songwriter"

Twisted Soul

Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

Twisted Soul

 "an artist who is pushing jazz forward way beyond her peers” 

    AWARDS AND GRANTS

    Power Up Award, Steve Reid Award, Ivor Composer Award nominee, Ronnie Scott’s Foundation Grant, Help Musicians Grant, PRSF Open Fund, Hildegard Commission Finalist

    COMISSIONS

    Debt Justice, Global Justice Now, Wigmore Hall, Turner Sims, Preta Hub, British Council, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Tour de Moon, National Sawdust, BBC Radio 3, BBC Concert Orchestra, University of Michigan

    FOUNDER

    Founder of Musical Meditation, Healing Justice Collective, Arts, Music and Culture Sangha, B.H.A.M. (Black History Arts Movement), Jelly’s Jams, All Day Breakfast Cafe, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Queer Jazz

    TRAINING

    Nada Yoga 200 hr Teacher Training, Mind Body Coaching with The Embody Lab, Afri-Sufic Sound Healing with Fred Johnson, Tibetan Mantra with Drukmo Gyal, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, Systems View of Life with Fritjof Capra

    RESIDENCIES

    Royal Philharmonic Society & Wigmore Hall, St George’s and Queen Mary’s Hospitals, Preta Hub and Fiera Preta Brazil (British Council), Unearthadox Regenerative Futures Retreat

    MENTORING

     Sound & Music ‘New Voices’, Montreux Jazz Academy, Serious Take Five 

    RADIO

    Interviews on NPR, NTS, Bandcamp (front-page), dublab, BBC6 Music, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 1xtra, BBC Radio London, Soho Radio, Jazz FM and track of the day for KEXP, KCRW and DMMY Magazine  

    NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

    Trafalgar Square for Climate Justice March, Fiera Preta (Brazil), Kaltern Pop (Italy), Montreux Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, We Out Here

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