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🎙️ WALID BEN SELIM 🔊

☁️ Entering Walid Ben Selim’s realm feels like discovering a well of healing artistry. In the blink of an eye, a timeless air invades your body to infuse its particles with contemplation and devotion.

☁️ The feelings showing up speak a language you thought forgotten, bringing you hidden truths about your joys and hurts. 

☁️ It’s no wonder Moroccan musician Walid Ben Selim creates such magic: his art finds its root in his love for Sufi poetry and music—a blend that often rhymes with the mystic.

☁️ On April 7th, Walid Ben Selim will perform at the Cully Jazz Festival with the classical harpist Marie Marguerite Cano. In this delicate dance, a harp’s tenderness meets a voice’s enchantment to highlight the transcendent magic music can create. 

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☁️ Discovering their vault inspired me || une épine au cœur ||, a poem in French which felt like coming from a place I’m not used to exploring—an experience that led me to wonder what other unfamiliar places their performance will take me to
You’ll find the answer in
|| wordstobemusic || vol.3

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☁️ On April 7th, Walid Ben Selim will perform at the Cully Jazz Festival with the classical harpist Marie Marguerite Cano. In this delicate dance, a harp’s tenderness meets a voice’s enchantment to highlight the transcendent magic music can create. 

📽️ https://youtu.be/cX5CTzo7GGU?si=pQ9sT36SaLiScCWi