But when you wake, as I did, in your tent at the dead of night in a Dogon village, and you hear the rhythmic chants and drum beats marking the death of a villager a few days earlier, his body already lifted up to be stored with others in a cliff cave, it's easy to imagine that there's a little magic in the air.
The soundtrack, which features Thom Yorke harmonising with the atmospheric beats, marks a departure from Radiohead's typical sound.
Paid in Full, which contains gritty, heavy, and dark beats, marked the beginning of heavy sampling in hip hop records.
But he manages to crunch out some semblance of a hot beat before marking the kill switch with the classic throat slash motion a minute and a half later.
First, all scores in the set were segmented according to [41], and then the musical note information, including pitches and beats (rhythm marks), was decoded.
The 2008 finals, in which Detroit beat Pittsburgh, marked the beginning of the N.H.L.'s recent rebirth.
He uses a steady percussive beat to mark a fatalistic current, and his expectation-thwarting melody lines have a ruminative, listless, even joyless quality.
They found that New England climate varied with the same 2.5- to 5-year beat that marks the comings and goings of El Niño today.
The Syrians determined that the pictures showed "no beating marks, no traces of torture," and that the boy had been killed by gunfire, "most probably by his fellow-terrorists".
In the UK, where tickets went on sale earlier in the day, Star Wars studio Disney said a record 200,000 plus tickets were sold in 24 hours, beating marks for Skyfall, Spectre, The Hunger Games and 50 Shades of Grey.
