Friday 30 January 2009

waleed shalaan


Music, folk, guitare
at various places in Kuwait

Waleed holds his guitare with grace and ease, he plays and sings a repertoire of good old tunes and vibrates with the sound he produces. He closes his eyes and feels the words and the notes: light my fire, baby, someone to lean on, sorry, talking about a revolution...
His friend Aziz el Laziz joined him for a few duets and they went on with Summertime and the living is easy...

The living surely gets easier with music as cases of severe neurological disorder can see improvement with music, according to high level medical research. Cases are studied where music has helped patients with Parkinson disease to hold on to a coherent movement, some with amnesia or aneurysm. It looks like music penetrates cells and memory or triggers emotional relief. The sensibility of words and a song can provoke an excursion into joy, love or even bring out loss, sadness etc...

Sound heals and waves on a sandy beach gives the rhythm and the flow to Waleed's performance. And we, in our neurological disorders, get an intermission to smooth our daily pressures

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