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A cheery tune starts playing on the radio while we are in the car and, without realizing it, begin to set the pace with our fingers on the steering wheel to move his shoulders and gesticulating with the song. In the same way can be a calm melody that manages to lighten the face during a traffic jam. Is it a decision to feel euphoria or peace? No, is the effect of music on the brain that makes us react that way.

Music therapy is one of the treatment alternatives that are becoming more relevant and more research is devoted in the field of neurology. Recent studies have shown that those who have suffered some type of brain damage from stroke or trauma, accelerated cognitive recovery and motor skills, improve behavior, emotional and affective development, enhance social skills and show improved pain management with music therapy . Those who suffer from dementia, depression and even neurological disorders such as autism, have also shown progress with this treatment.

Although the effect of music on the brain is not a recent discovery, the technology of magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography (PET Scan) has managed to shed light on it. What still remains to discover is the exact location of the area of the brain that are stimulated by music.

“ The studies have helped to observe parts of the brain responsible for body movements, sensory perception, coordination, cognition, and anxiety countenance. You can see which parts are stimulated during a particular activity. Still not known with certainty the specific location, but patients with lesions in the superior temporal lobe showed greater cognitive recovery with this treatment, said Dr. Nestor Galvez, head of neurology at the Cleveland Clinic in Weston.

MUSIC AND EMOTION

Different parts of the brain interact when listening to music and allow the person to recognize inner emotions. “ When a person hears a rhythm or melody, the brain is working, you hear the cognitive function of sound and perform the music, then engages the engine to dance, play an instrument or move. For each function we have a program. When you use music as therapy helps to create new connections and programs in the brain to overcome obstacles, said Galvez.

The influence of music on the brain is not limited to listening; the power to sing a melody is also part of the process. “ Many patients who have suffered strokes and aphasia developed - the partial or complete loss of the power of the word - can sing, can be expressed through song. The same happens with Parkinson’s patients, who often stutter as the disease progresses, but can sing without difficulty, said the Panamanian physician.

The band will issue an EP in May with eight songs entitled “The Night Train”. It shall contain collaborations.

After the worldwide success of his album “Perfect Symmetry,” Keane announces a new EP which will go on sale on 10 May and a British tour. The EP’s title comes from the shape of the band’s favorite travel during her tour and night train.

In the songs, they wanted to include important partnerships, such as the Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan and Japanese singer-songwriter Tigarah. In the songs ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’ rapper collaborates, and ‘Ishin Denshin (You’ve Got To Help Yourself)’ involving the Japanese.

The launch is scheduled for May next year, specifically for the 10th, and on its website www.keanemusic.com and you can buy tickets for the tour in England June 2010. In addition, the store will find discounts of up to 40% in the clothes of the band.

The dates that confirmed by the group for their summer tour in June 2010 are:

10 Thetford Forest, Suffolk
11 Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent
18 Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
19 Sherwood Pines Forest, Nottinghamshire
25 Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
26 Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire

The singer-songwriter Norah Jones publishes her fourth studio album “The Fall” with Blue Note Records - EMI. She wrote all the songs in the past two years since finishing her tour with the album Not Too Late in 2007.

Loved by her fans thanks to her seductive voice and her compositions based pop jazz, Norah Jones takes a new direction on her new album in experimenting with different sounds and working with new partners: Jacquire King, a prominent producer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits and Modest Mouse among others. Norah Jones also has joined with Ryan Adams, Will Sheff (Okkervil River) and her regular partner Jesse Harris for the compositions.

“I knew I wanted to try something different on this album” says Norah. “I’ve been playing with the same musicians for a long time. We still hold our relationship and hope to play with them again, but it seems an opportune time to work with new people and experiment with different sounds. “As a producer, wanted someone who could get me out of my state of comfort and finding suitable musicians reflect what we wanted to do with these songs. Jacquire contacted because he was the engineer of one of my favorite records ever, “Mule Variations” by Tom Waits. He liked the idea and connected great, which is important. ”

Jacquire King helped Norah Jones to reunite her new musicians for the album, as is the case of batteries Joey Waronker (Beck, REM) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), James Poyser on keyboards (Erykah Badu, Al Green) and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).

Norah Jones Jacquire and King put the songs up for the strength of the musicians: “I think the album sounds different because of the variety of musicians in the recording we had,” says Norah Jones. “I knew I wanted to play with more pace than in my previous albums. Some of the new songs lend themselves to background torrential rhythms. ”

Another notable change in the disc is mainly played guitar. “Actually I write more on guitar than piano,” she says. “I just have felt more natural playing it in these songs.”

Rihanna on Letterman, Good Morning America Rihanna, Rihanna for Nokia in London, Rihanna in the soup. Here we must conform to the image of Rihanna, “naked except for the barbed wire,” which decorate the whole world.

After his sad episode earlier this year it did not appear to be Rihanna’s year but the truth is that Barbados girl has finished the year with great momentum. With a rested head, with a little help from her friends and then presenting her new look on the cover of Vogue Italia, Rihanna has not only returned but, above, has done it so convincingly. And I refer to the tests. Rated R, which was released last Friday, already has great reviews. Congratulations!

To round off 2009, or to a good start in 2010, the singer, which is only 21, could pocket a whopping half million dollars for an exclusive performance in Abu Dhabi on New Year´s Eve. It would be her first performance in the Middle East, after the cancellation of an appointment in May due to the sad event starring his ex at the Grammys.

Robbie Williams has already announced the list of songs from his new album “Reality Killed the Video Star” was published on 10 November. The stunning new single “Bodies” came out last October 12. Here it is:

Robbie Williams released his new album “Reality Killed the Video Star on November 10 and will be preceded by the single Bodies that came on 12 October (which will be available in 2 special remixes: the single mix of Trevor Horn, and Fred Falke Remix Full Length).

The album was issued in standard edition and deluxe edition including a deluxe packaging and a DVD with documentaries and making off. Here is a small sample of what it will be:

The album was composed mostly in Robbie’s home studio and recorded in London. Among the artists who collaborated to write and compose are Danny Spencer & Kelvin Andrews, Brandon Christy, Craig Russo, Richard Spencer and Scott Rudin, Chaz Jankel, Guy Chambers and Phil Eisler.

On the production work of legendary Trevor Horn, Robbie says, “You have added something to the disc with what I have not counted in previous works, his genius.” On the album, Robbie says, “I want people to get excited, I want to dance, I want at least 50 minutes to forget who they are and where they are - and during those 50 minutes to forget who you are, I also hope that people identify with the songs. This is a disc that I feel very proud, I think it is fucking great. I want it on record that, if people think of Robbie Williams, says, “Yes, Reality Killed the Video Star”.

The list of items that are part of the new album is as follows:

Morning Sun
Bodies
You Know Me
Blasphemy
Do You Mind?
Last Days Of Disco
Somewhere
Deceptacon
Starstruck
Difficult For Weirdos
Superblind
Will not Do That
Morning Sun (Reprise)

Not long ago we got to see Robbie back on stage in X Factor after a crisis that made him consider his life completely. Welcome back, Robbie!

The new album by Peter Gabriel, “Scratch my back”, goes on sale next January 25 and will consist of versions of classic and “cult” songs of artists like Radiohead, Neil Young and Lou Reed, among others.

In a press release, EMI announced that the album will contain 12 songs recorded by Peter Gabriel with an orchestra and no guitar or drums.

Some of the versioned songs featured on this album, which will be published by Virgin Records, are “The Power of the Heart” by Lou Reed, “Mirrorball” by Elbow’s “The Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon and “My Body is a Cage” by Arcade Fire.

The former member of Genesis also has embraced issues of Talking Heads and Bon Iver for this “eclectic” job in which John Metcalfe and producers Bob Ezrin and Tchard Blake were involved.

Gabriel believes that his new album, which constitutes the first part of a project involving a series of exchanges between artists’ songs, is “entirely personal”.

“Scratch my back” was recorded and edited at Air Lyndhurst Studios, owned by George Michael, in Real World Temple and Real World Studios in Wiltshire (England).

Four months after his death and the sentence that all would be prescient: “This is it” the American singer Michael Jackson returns to cause screaming and crying fans, now with the documentary film behind cameras, from trials conducted to undertake a world tour.

Under the direction of Kanny Ortega, who besides being the choreographer was his creative partner, arrives in theaters to be screened for only two weeks.

The film shows the most humane Michael Jackson, the professional artist who took his team to perfection in each trial, the man who succeeded in changing the lives of many people in the world.

“This is it”, shows his followers carried by little-known aspects of his person, never before seen tests and especially that exercised by the change in each person who got to know as well as aspects of the final “casting” it made to pick the best dancers.

Through one hour 32 minutes, the viewer and lover of Michael Jackson´s music, you may find some of the facets that had the “King of Pop“, both as a singer, dancer, filmmaker, designer, and dreamer all as a human being concerned for others and the world.

“This is it” is a documentary to show the world the “King of Pop” as he would never, especially through respect, love and admiration of those who worked with him, seeing him as a spiritual guide in their lives.

Despite there is more than a month left for New Moon to be released, the latest film from the Twilight saga, has already released the soundtrack to the film.

The record has been much discussed by the quality of the artists who compose it, among which includes Thom Yorke (lead singer of Radiohead), Muse and Death Cab For Cutie.

Also participating there are some independent bands such as Band of Skulls and Sea Wolf.

The initial reviews have highlighted how different the material in respect of the last movie.

“The first record went for the safe bet with a variety of emo, metal and pop tunes. But New Moon opts for something more daring and dark, with a record of around underworld of freak-folk and indie-rock, “said the Daily News.

Pop star Britney Spears put the theme “3″ from her latest album “The Singles Collection”, available on the market from next month, at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

“I thank my fans for making ‘3 ‘the song that leads the count in Billboard Hot 100,” Britney said through a press release.

“I’m really blessed to have the most incredible fans in the world and I’m glad they liked because I do all this for you. I can not wait to see the video!”, added the performer.

The video for “3″ will be released soon through Britney.com, Britneyspears.com and other official pages.

The single is the only new song in “The Singles Collection” disc which is celebrating 10 years of her artistic career and will have two presentations: One fan box set and a standard version.

The standard version includes 17 hits from the “Princess of Pop”, plus “3″.

The fan box set will be available beginning November 24 and will include the 29 singles of the performer. Each disc is packaged in its own box with original art and will include a B side or remix from each song.

The collection will include a DVD with all the videos of Britney Spears in chronological order. It will also have a special script with funny images about each song.

Since last March, Britney Spears is touring to promote her latest studio album, “Circus”.

Susan Boyle won thousands of people around the world thanks to her simplicity and great voice, now, the world famous Scottish Natural showed her natural face to pose for the cover of their debut album.

The main image of the material ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ shows Boyle’s face leaning on his hands and no apparent digital retouching.

Since its appearance in the show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, the Scots changed the color of her hair and pluck her eyebrows.

The photograph was taken during a session for Harper’s Bazaar, in which Boyle, 48, showed her glamour.

Boyle’s first album goes on sale on 23 November and already is a success of Internet sales, as even unseated in order through Amazon the famous Beatles.