April 2007 CDs
The Healthy Brain Kit
Clinically Proven Tools to Boost Your Memory, Sharpen Your Mind, Keep Your Brain Young
You've heard it over and over again: “work smarter, not harder.” But how do we get smart in the fi rst place?
Maybe you've been playing Sudoku? Good start. And now Dr. Gary Small, Director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center , has some more answers for us. Working in the area of Alzheimer's disease and brain aging, he has discovered myriad ways to boost memory, sharpen concentration, enhance verbal fluency, and more–in less than two weeks.
The Healthy Brain Kit is a cooperative undertaking by Small and Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., to provide us with a complete program for increasing our brain power immediately. The kit includes two CDs spotlighting the brain's remarkable abilities and offering Dr. Small's favorite “mental aerobics” exercises to strengthen both brain hemispheres; a 52-page workbook with Dr. Weil's proven nutrition and lifestyle recommendations; and 35 brain-training cards with tips and teasers to enhance your brain performance in any situation.
Who could find fault with a package that helps you get creative, improve your concentration, find alternative solutions, and remember how you did it? Here's to a smarter America . Buy it and send it to the President. —Chiwah
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RaRe Elements
Rare Elements is wild, refreshing, alive. From the get-go, this incredible CD has twisted and turned my expectations of what is East and what is West in ways I never would have dreamed of. The result is captivatingly hypnotic — a juxtaposition of old and new worlds that sparkles in its vocals and instrumentation, a surprise to the ear at every turn.
The album is the first in this Five Points series of groundbreaking CDs calling on the worlds' top remixers to create magic from the works of master musicians. First Ustad Sultan Khan, a world renowned Sarangi master who has collaborated with such artists as Madonna, Duran Duran, Peter Gabriel, Ravi Shankar, and George Harrison, recorded ten original tracks, and Five Points Records then enlisted top remixers Thievery Corporation, Nickodemus and Osiris, Joe Claussell and Ralphi Rosario to interpret and rework the Eastern melodies.
I can't stop listening to this music. And I can hardly wait to hear the other CDs in the series.
—Chiwah
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