The Soul Whisperer (Playlist Vol.1)

How many times have we heard this?

-Notes of the music can help to heal, rejuvenate or soothe the soul-


Music has changed throughout the years, but its purpose is the same. The type of music we listen to affects the brain.

Some music has been proven to help memorisation, to help us retain information we have learned (de javu?). It has to do with order, symmetry, rhythmic patterns, repetition, ideal mathematical form, and harmony.

And now listen to this: MUSIC training proves an effective memory development for CHILDREN.

Quoting the American Psychological Association:

“those dreaded piano lessons pay off in unexpected ways: According to a new study, children with music training had significantly better verbal memory than their counterparts without such training, plus, the longer the training, the better the verbal memory. Psychologists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied 90 boys between age six and fifteen. "

Hmm...So, get ready your playlist collection for your child, cousins, nieces, nephews. To increase their learning experience, do expose them across a variety of genre, not just Classical.

Go to: http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/topic/3/163.htm to understand the link between music and children, if you're keen.

To help myself increase my memory banking, I've created my first playlist - BOSSA NOVA collection. You can tap on it to soothe your soul too. In times of frenetic interludes, or even in-between happy moments, music envelopes me like my second life. But I am not implying I'm a kid. :-)

BOSSA NOVA
A style of Brazilian music created by Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto.

First introduced in Brazil in 1958, to do something with "Bossa" is to do it with particular charm and natural flair, as in an innate ability.


Bossa Nova is at its core a rhythm based on samba.

The musical style evolved from samba but is more complex harmonically and is less percussive.

The influence on Bossa Nova of Afro-American jazz styles such as cool jazz is often debated by historians and fans, but a similar "cool sensibility" is apparent.

Lush orchestral accompaniment is often associated with Bossa Nova's North American image as "elevator" or "lounge" music.