Dirty Projectors - cool in any language

Swing Lo Magellan is the Brooklyn band's most accessible work to date, even with a lead track translated into ancient AkkadianIn April, the web page for the Egyptology department at Brown University, an Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island, carried an unusual news story. "Assyriology graduate students Willis Monroe and Zack Wainer recently translated a song by the Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger – into Akkadian," reported the website. "Willis wrote out the cuneiform using...

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