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Not Just Pretty Music---My Experiences & Ratings

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I have consciously been listening to music for the past few years. Sometimes I listen to music purely for pleasure, but other times I am trying to shift moods, heal a weak immune system, insomnia, physical pain and emotional turmoil. Here are some of the results I have found in my own life testing music on my own mind-body. Lifting Moods: Mozart, Bach, Debussy Also to various Gregorian chant recordings George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "American in Paris" Anything by Madeleine Peyroux Rolf Lislevand's "Nuove Musiche" Some Beatles music (the folkier acoustic songs) Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" Native American flute West African kora music West African polyphonic drums Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate Classical Indian music Habib Koite & Bamada Malian music in general Healing Migraines & Nausea: The Wailin' Jenny's, especially the song, "Apocalypse Lullaby" (Firecracker) Renaissan