Jairus Sharif is a Black Canadian multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and producer based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. His work involves spontaneous improvisation and live composition to create music that deals with healing, self-understanding, and personal freedom, at the intersection of class and technology.
As a self-taught sound artist, Sharif has generated a stream of passionate and unclassifiable recordings that forge unprecedented connections between hip-hop abstraction, mysticism, and outsider jazz. His music offers a glimpse into an ongoing hermetic journey via soulful, contradictory statements, that dwell beneath a blustery surface.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
We acknowledge the generous support of our partners and funders:
