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Sarah Bareilles covers Coldplay’s Yellow
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Let the Day Begin
Long time no BRMC, but the wait was well worth it. Let the Day Begin is a big song, multi-layered instrumentation, pulsing, peaking-then-release. It begs to be listened to really loud, or not at all. But with all that, I hear the Beatles in this, under the layers I hear a John Lennon song. Sure, Tomorrow Never Knows type Lennon, but Lennon nonetheless.
This tears the cover off the ball.
FEVER RAY
Alexis Petridis says Karin Dreijer Andersson is planning to fold up the Fever Ray ‘project’ after a show in London on 5 December.
This is my favorite. Jimmy Fallon and the Roots make everything better.
- Track:Dreams
- Artist:Taken By Trees
- Album:Other Worlds
Dreams — Taken by Trees
(h/t wearehunted.com)
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
Louis Armstrong (via faredisfare)
Geeta Dayal, The Album Covers of Brian Eno
Another Green World (1975)
The album’s pastoral cover art is a detail from “After Raphael,” a painting by Tom Phillips, Eno’s mentor during his days at Ipswich Art College. (Some believe that the boy in the foreground, with the blond hair and the red beanie, is meant to be Eno.) The back cover depicts the decidedly un-rocking image of Eno sitting up in bed, reading a book — underlining the album’s general vibe of stillness, solitude, and quiet reflection.
‘Call Your Girlfriend’ Robyn/ Erato cover by Lennon & Maisy Stella
Futurity.org – Aging musicians have sharp brains
via Emory
Older musicians perform better on cognitive tests than individuals who did not play an instrument, according to a new study published in the April issue of Neuropsychology.
While much research has been done to determine the cognitive benefits of musical activity by children, this is the first study to examine whether those benefits can extend across a lifetime.
“Musical activity throughout life may serve as a challenging cognitive exercise, making your brain fitter and more capable of accommodating the challenges of aging,” says lead researcher and clinical neuropsychologist Brenda Hanna-Pladdy of Emory University. “Since studying an instrument requires years of practice and learning, it may create alternate connections in the brain that could compensate for cognitive declines as we get older.”
The study enrolled 70 individuals age 60-83 who were divided into three groups. The participants either had no musical training, one to nine years of musical study or at least 10 years of musical training. All of the participants had similar levels of education and fitness, and didn’t show any evidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
Cognitive performance was measured by testing brain functions that typically decline as the body ages, and more dramatically deteriorate in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
The high-level musicians who had studied the longest performed the best on the cognitive tests, followed by the low-level musicians and non-musicians, revealing a trend relating to years of musical practice.
The high-level musicians had statistically significant higher scores than the non-musicians on cognitive tests relating to visuospatial memory, naming objects, and cognitive flexibility, or the brain’s ability to adapt to new information.
“Based on previous research and our study results, we believe that both the years of musical participation and the age of acquisition are critical,” Hanna-Pladdy says. “There are crucial periods in brain plasticity that enhance learning, which may make it easier to learn a musical instrument before a certain age and thus may have a larger impact on brain development.”
I have to start orchestrating a new version of Trust In Me, closely adapted from the Etta James version. To keep my brain supple.
(Source: stoweboyd)
Trust In Me
Words & Music by Ned Wever, Milton Ager & Jean Schwartz
D6 D F#m Em7 Trust in me in all you do; G9 Edim Cdim Em7 Have the faith I have in you. G9 Edim Cdim Love will see us through A Em7 A7 D B7 Em7 G/B A7 If on - ly you trust in me. D6 D F#m Em7 Come to me when things go wrong G9 Edim Cdim Em7 Cling to me and I'll be strong G9 Edim Cdim A Em7 A7 Edim G D We can get along, as long you'll trust in me. Bridge: D F#m D7/9 G A While there's a moon on high, A A9 A D Bm While there's a bird to fly D D6 D Em7 G While there's a you and I Em Em6 Em Bm Bm7/E A7/6 A7 You can be sure I love you D6 D F#m Em7 Stand beside me all the while G9 Edim Cdim Em7 Face the future with a smile G9 Edim Cdim A Em7 A7 D Trust in me and I'll be worth - y of you.
