On the ectomorphic end of the musical spectrum, Joanna Newsom’s 2004 album The Milk-Eyed Mender showed up via interlibrary loan from West Duluth yesterday afternoon. I’ve been listening to it on headphones and wondering why it sounds so familiar. As track seven, “En Gallop,” began, I figured it out: The harp is similar in timbre to the kora. (I have spent much more time listening to Toumani Diabate than to harp music of any sort.) Newsom even sings (alarmingly) “from the head,” a technique I once saw Baaba Maal describe in an interview. This is meaningless coincidence, but all the same: When I get my three wishes, I’m going to put Newsom in a recording studio with Toumani Diabate and Ramata Diakite.