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e. shawn qaissaunee

About Me

Q, aka E. Shawn Qaissaunee was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and raised in the USA. His first tour was at the age of 18 through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. Shawn attended Berklee College of Music (Jazz Composition/Music Education) and studied with Jon Damian, Pat Martino and Wolfgang Muthspiel. Shawn has performed extensively in the USA and abroad and currently is involved with a number of projects including the Afghan Jazz Project, Spontaneous Underground and The Q Factor. Shawn has opened for McCoy Tyner and recently opened for Derek Trucks at the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/7/2006
Band Website: www.esqmusic.com
Band Members: Q + Rob Swanson, Jimmy Coleman, Harry "Butch" Reed, Erik (Huffamoose) Johnson, Charlie Murry, Brian Menendez, Greg Riley and so on and so forth...
Influences: mom and dad, Hermann Hesse, Alan Watts, Eknath Easwaran, Kurt Vonnegut, Salvador Dali, Klimt, King Crimson, Yes, Pat Martino, Wolfgang Muthspiel, John Scofield, Stevie Wonder, Ohio Players and so on and so forth...
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Hafgan Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

alone - for AGQ

the cows are gone - it's raining outsidei can't believe  it's been this long since you went awayalone&&&& a-lonethe time has come to say goodbyeit's been grand  but you've moved on andi had to staya...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:08:00 GMT

october

ever since the very first time - that i laid my eyes on youi wanted know you - wanted to show youthat everything is easy when you're freeand love can change your life so suddenlyjanuary goes awayhow t...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:59:00 GMT

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slapping the dawn. tapping soulstrings.watching a butterfly dance into forever.dancing on the air.flowing through space and time(lessness).creating and destroying.loving and hating.working andplaying...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:57:00 GMT

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an endless flow moving along. a calm rage.a child's face. a corpse. onething. and everything and then NOthing.a lover's laugh. warm salty tears (an ocean). rivers flow. one into another.bodies...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:55:00 GMT

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a foreign tongue caressingundressingdistressingand blessing the soul. familiar lips kissingmissingand remembering the night. stopping the pain. healing the hurt.and building a bridgeof eggshells an...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:51:00 GMT

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hitting me like the ocean waves  is fear, and love. all the while i feel the undercurrentpulling me out to sea. i can swim if i don't thinktoo hard  but i can't remember the last time that happened....
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:17:00 GMT

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somewhere between the realms of consciousness  between reality and fantasy  i kissed the night. touched, held, and loved the night  embraced every galaxy and every star bright. somewhere along the ...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:14:00 GMT

the state of q...

as those of you close to me may already know, things have changed for mr.q. someone that i love very much hashad enough of me and seems to be moving on. the words devasted and heartbroken come to mind...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:20:00 GMT