AEJ

Ottawa

Arif Jinha is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Ottawa. Arif is a psychiatric surviving artist and scholar, of Gujarati Ganda-Persian-English migrant roots, a spiritually fluid murid of the Ismaili Tariqah. Arif blends sacred, North American roots and world music as spiritual practise, personal healing and development, and consolidated creative and published works. Along with performance, Arif also facilitates kirtan, dhikr and sound healing in community contexts. This practise spans guitar, voice, sitar, bass, piano (and piano tuning), ukulele - and listening - the heart of music and cooperation (working on the latter lol). Feet on ground, Arif is a semi-retired, a caregiver and worker at Anishinaabe Algonquin lands, near the Kichi Zibi. Three decades of musical study yields Arif's coming offering - River Music. This a living synthesis of Indian, jazz and Western theory and practise, North American black music and many folk/roots tradit