This time of year is perfect for busy/lazy/outta-whack-priorities people like me. Thanks to the ubiquity of end-of-year "top" music lists, I can make up for weeks of inattention in practically no time.(But not always: last year's issue of MOJO remains unopened.)And so we begin, thanks to this kindly reminder from The Morning News:Said the Gramophone's "Best Songs of 2009"You're welcome, slackers.
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Here Come the "Top" Lists
Ancient Sudanese Music of Healing Threatens Egyptian Orthodoxy
From Prospect magazine:The rango is an old Sudanese xylophone, its wooden blocks attached to curving gourds that, the musicians believe, contain the souls of the instrument's previous masters. The instrument and its music are a bridge between the visible world and the spirit world—inhabited by beings such as Yawra Bey, the sword-wielding, dandyish king of the spirits and Lady Racosha, a beautif.
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Life After a Brain Hemorrhage
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The Guardian shares excerpts from a new book by Edwyn Collins's wife about life after his brain hemorrhage:The way it was for Edwyn, for Edwyn and me, was deeper and stranger. Before we could even think about his cleverness, his fabulous sarcasm, his highly-developed sense of the absurd (where they had gone? Were they coming back?), we had to wrestle with questions of simple identity.It's impos...
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What's Your Favorite Colour, Baby?
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Metallica Is Monkey Music?
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From the Guardian:Researchers composed "monkey melodies" to investigate whether non-human primates are capable of responding to music with the same emotions as people.They found that while monkeys were left cold by human music, they reacted emotionally to tunes that incorporated features commonly heard in monkey calls, such as rising and falling tones.In the study, 14 cotton-top tamarins were p...
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