The Asian Music Circuit (often abbreviated to AMC) is a London based touring company for music from Asia. It also runs workshops and summer schools which are open to the public. They accommodate all types of Asian Music and now have a Centre that includes a musuem and workshop rooms, complete with touch screens and sound chamber. The new centre is up and running but the touch screens still need to be booted up.
Viram Jasani founded the charity company in 1991 and has been going for 17 years now. The organisation now produces summer schools and workshops for people in Britain and are hoping to organise exchange projects to Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Their website is www.amc.org.uk , not to be confused with the cancer research company.
The AMC has had many awards in the past and is responsible for the large number of Asian artists that visit Southbank for concerts. The AMC also deals in artists that need to come to England to perform and have never been outside their own country.
This charity company gives services to the public and lots of workshops are available in the summer and to schools during term time. They also hold some workshops on the weekends and hold practice sessions in the coming months to the summer schools. The summer schools hold at least 10 workshops that include Guqin, Pipa, Erhu and many more Asian Instruments. The musuem in the Asian Music Centre holds most of the instruments that you can try during the summer schools. The best thing about these summer schools is that you don't have to know anything about Asia, you can come to our workshops and ask our artists about anything to do with their instruments to better your knowledge about these things.
The Asian Music Centre is an extension of the Asian Music Centre that was opened in 2007 and is the place where most of the workshops during the year take place. The Centre holds a musuem of asia and the instruments that are native to all countries in asia. In the museum there is East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia. There is also a sound chamber near the centre of the musuem that reacts to your hand movements and creates music and melodies taken from the projection that is on all sides of the chamber. The projection ranges from Chinese to Indian and will screen different sounds for you to play with in the sound chamber.
The Asian Music Circuit is well known for bringing the best artists from Asia. The artists will come and perform in England and sometimes go on tour throughout England. A new tour that is coming to the UK is The Dying Song. The Dying Song is about the form of Thumri and how the form is slowly dying out and is being renewed by Bireshwar Gautum. He is a leading figure in Thumri and Kathak and is helping the *Asian Music Circuit in promoting their company. Bireshwar Gautum plays the leading figure in the Dying Song and mimes the very words he sings.
Viram Jasani founded the charity company in 1991 and has been going for 17 years now. The organisation now produces summer schools and workshops for people in Britain and are hoping to organise exchange projects to Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Their website is www.amc.org.uk , not to be confused with the cancer research company.
The AMC has had many awards in the past and is responsible for the large number of Asian artists that visit Southbank for concerts. The AMC also deals in artists that need to come to England to perform and have never been outside their own country.
This charity company gives services to the public and lots of workshops are available in the summer and to schools during term time. They also hold some workshops on the weekends and hold practice sessions in the coming months to the summer schools. The summer schools hold at least 10 workshops that include Guqin, Pipa, Erhu and many more Asian Instruments. The musuem in the Asian Music Centre holds most of the instruments that you can try during the summer schools. The best thing about these summer schools is that you don't have to know anything about Asia, you can come to our workshops and ask our artists about anything to do with their instruments to better your knowledge about these things.
The Asian Music Centre is an extension of the Asian Music Centre that was opened in 2007 and is the place where most of the workshops during the year take place. The Centre holds a musuem of asia and the instruments that are native to all countries in asia. In the museum there is East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia. There is also a sound chamber near the centre of the musuem that reacts to your hand movements and creates music and melodies taken from the projection that is on all sides of the chamber. The projection ranges from Chinese to Indian and will screen different sounds for you to play with in the sound chamber.
The Asian Music Circuit is well known for bringing the best artists from Asia. The artists will come and perform in England and sometimes go on tour throughout England. A new tour that is coming to the UK is The Dying Song. The Dying Song is about the form of Thumri and how the form is slowly dying out and is being renewed by Bireshwar Gautum. He is a leading figure in Thumri and Kathak and is helping the *Asian Music Circuit in promoting their company. Bireshwar Gautum plays the leading figure in the Dying Song and mimes the very words he sings.
Beyond Aston is the third solo album from Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. There is no release date for it. Bill has been working on this album for a long time; it originally had its genesis before his previous solo album was released in 1997.
In December of 2007, Bill stated in a Christmas letter to his fans that he hopes to have the album completed in early 2008.
Track listing
While the final track listing is unknown, Bill did release a listing of seventeen titles for Beyond Aston on his website on . That list appears below. In a later update, he said that there would be ten songs on the album, so which of these actually makes the cut (or even retain these titles) is unknown at this time.
#"Crow"
#"The Dark Half Hour"
#"Straws"
#"God and the Law"
#"Hi Fi Life"
#"Ashes"
#"Angel in the Rain"
#"Beyond Aston"
#"Monmouth Nights"
#"First Day Back"
#"Everybody Loves Me"
#"Powder on the Moon"
#"Soldiers"
#"Abandoned Gift"
#"Somebody’s Heart"
#"Elephant Man"
#"Woodshop"
On June 13 2006, Bill stated in an update on his website that two of the track names are "Where You Are Is Not Forever" and "Poppies". Whether these are new tracks not on the list of titles Bill released in November of 2002, or just renamed versions of some of those tracks is unknown.
Musicians
*Bill Ward - Vocals, lyrics & musical arrangements, drums on "Poppies"
*Keith Lynch - Guitars
*Paul Ill - Bass guitar
*Ronnie Ciago - Drums
Straws
One of the songs from Beyond Aston is called Straws. For a time in 2002, Bill made an mp3 of the song available for free on his website, but it was later withdrawn. Straws was then printed in a limited quantity of CD's. Only 2,200 copies of the "Straws" CD-single were produced, with the first 1,200 going to governmental heads of state throughout the world, humanitarian organizations, peace support groups, media outlets, musicians and actors. The remaining 1,000 copies were put on sale through Bill's Website, and the monies raised from sales of the CD single benefitted five charities that Bill chose. These charities are:
#The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
#Inner City Music Program - "Bands Not Gangs", Los Angeles
#The Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation
#Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF)
#The National Veterans Foundation
Bill had this to say about the song Straws and its meaning on his website: I wrote "Straws" in September 2002 when I became most fearful of retaliatory response in the U.S.A. if war with Iraq became a reality. I hope this war does not trigger a terrorist response and allow the unimaginable to happen. "Straws" is about my unimaginable. Peace to all men, women, and children.
The Dark Half Hour
On March 9 2004, Bill released another song from Beyond Aston; that being The Dark Half Hour. With the release, Bill had this to say about the song: It's about sexuality and sexual shame in part. This version is a close master mix, and therefore, will be different than the final master that will end up on the album.
Unlike the Straws download, this is still available as a legal free download from Bill's site.
Trivia
*Despite being a drummer himself, Bill's did not drum on his own previous solo work. Beyond Aston changes that; Bill does drum on one track, "Poppies".
*Early on, this album's name was "Remembering"; it was later changed to Beyond Aston.
*The title Beyond Aston refers to the place where Bill grew up; the district of Aston in Birmingham, England.
In December of 2007, Bill stated in a Christmas letter to his fans that he hopes to have the album completed in early 2008.
Track listing
While the final track listing is unknown, Bill did release a listing of seventeen titles for Beyond Aston on his website on . That list appears below. In a later update, he said that there would be ten songs on the album, so which of these actually makes the cut (or even retain these titles) is unknown at this time.
#"Crow"
#"The Dark Half Hour"
#"Straws"
#"God and the Law"
#"Hi Fi Life"
#"Ashes"
#"Angel in the Rain"
#"Beyond Aston"
#"Monmouth Nights"
#"First Day Back"
#"Everybody Loves Me"
#"Powder on the Moon"
#"Soldiers"
#"Abandoned Gift"
#"Somebody’s Heart"
#"Elephant Man"
#"Woodshop"
On June 13 2006, Bill stated in an update on his website that two of the track names are "Where You Are Is Not Forever" and "Poppies". Whether these are new tracks not on the list of titles Bill released in November of 2002, or just renamed versions of some of those tracks is unknown.
Musicians
*Bill Ward - Vocals, lyrics & musical arrangements, drums on "Poppies"
*Keith Lynch - Guitars
*Paul Ill - Bass guitar
*Ronnie Ciago - Drums
Straws
One of the songs from Beyond Aston is called Straws. For a time in 2002, Bill made an mp3 of the song available for free on his website, but it was later withdrawn. Straws was then printed in a limited quantity of CD's. Only 2,200 copies of the "Straws" CD-single were produced, with the first 1,200 going to governmental heads of state throughout the world, humanitarian organizations, peace support groups, media outlets, musicians and actors. The remaining 1,000 copies were put on sale through Bill's Website, and the monies raised from sales of the CD single benefitted five charities that Bill chose. These charities are:
#The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
#Inner City Music Program - "Bands Not Gangs", Los Angeles
#The Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation
#Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF)
#The National Veterans Foundation
Bill had this to say about the song Straws and its meaning on his website: I wrote "Straws" in September 2002 when I became most fearful of retaliatory response in the U.S.A. if war with Iraq became a reality. I hope this war does not trigger a terrorist response and allow the unimaginable to happen. "Straws" is about my unimaginable. Peace to all men, women, and children.
The Dark Half Hour
On March 9 2004, Bill released another song from Beyond Aston; that being The Dark Half Hour. With the release, Bill had this to say about the song: It's about sexuality and sexual shame in part. This version is a close master mix, and therefore, will be different than the final master that will end up on the album.
Unlike the Straws download, this is still available as a legal free download from Bill's site.
Trivia
*Despite being a drummer himself, Bill's did not drum on his own previous solo work. Beyond Aston changes that; Bill does drum on one track, "Poppies".
*Early on, this album's name was "Remembering"; it was later changed to Beyond Aston.
*The title Beyond Aston refers to the place where Bill grew up; the district of Aston in Birmingham, England.
Reena Combo, born 14 February 1982, is an actress and journalist. She is currently the editor of Ikonz magazine.
Background
Born in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, Combo began her journalism experience by writing for an Asian bridal magazine at the age of 14 and, at 16, worked with the BBC Asian Network. She continued writing for publications and online magazines while studying for her degree at the University of Birmingham and also worked as an extra on television dramas including Hollyoaks, Brookside, Coronation Street, Cold Feet and The Bill.
Journalism
She went on to work as a lecturer at a drama school in the Midlands before landing a position with Urban Media as a journalist for the Asian Leader, now The Asian Today, in 2003. She later became the newspaper's Sub Editor.
In 2004, the publishing house appointed her as the editor of their newly established entertainment publication, Desi Xpress.
In June 2006, Combo left her editorial responsibilities at Urban Media to "pursue other interests".
At present, Combo is the editor of Ikonz, a monthly Asian magazine aimed at young British Asians. The publication focuses on both the Bollywood and Hollywood entertainment circuit, with emphasis on the urban music industry. The first issue was published on 1 December, 2006.
As a notable figure in the Asian entertainment industry, Combo regularly presents and contributes towards various showbiz gossip features on radio and television.
Performing Arts
As an actress, Combo has experience in television work and Asian theatre. She played leading roles in writer Harvinder Sohal's plays, Anum and Udham.
In December 2007, she took a lead role in theatre production The Fifth Cup, performed at The Drum in Birmingham. The play is expected to tour nationally in 2008.
Achievements
In October 2007, Combo was included in Ikonz magazine's special Halloween photo shoot, in which she was transformed into a Vampiress. She was featured alongside Hollyoaks actors Ricky Whittle and Kevin Sacre along with other celebrities.
In November 2007, she was nominated as Outstanding Woman in Business 2007 by the Institute of Asian Businesses (IAB), a division of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
In December 2007, Combo publicly backed glamour model Katie Price following the publication of a sticker mocking Price's son in .
Background
Born in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, Combo began her journalism experience by writing for an Asian bridal magazine at the age of 14 and, at 16, worked with the BBC Asian Network. She continued writing for publications and online magazines while studying for her degree at the University of Birmingham and also worked as an extra on television dramas including Hollyoaks, Brookside, Coronation Street, Cold Feet and The Bill.
Journalism
She went on to work as a lecturer at a drama school in the Midlands before landing a position with Urban Media as a journalist for the Asian Leader, now The Asian Today, in 2003. She later became the newspaper's Sub Editor.
In 2004, the publishing house appointed her as the editor of their newly established entertainment publication, Desi Xpress.
In June 2006, Combo left her editorial responsibilities at Urban Media to "pursue other interests".
At present, Combo is the editor of Ikonz, a monthly Asian magazine aimed at young British Asians. The publication focuses on both the Bollywood and Hollywood entertainment circuit, with emphasis on the urban music industry. The first issue was published on 1 December, 2006.
As a notable figure in the Asian entertainment industry, Combo regularly presents and contributes towards various showbiz gossip features on radio and television.
Performing Arts
As an actress, Combo has experience in television work and Asian theatre. She played leading roles in writer Harvinder Sohal's plays, Anum and Udham.
In December 2007, she took a lead role in theatre production The Fifth Cup, performed at The Drum in Birmingham. The play is expected to tour nationally in 2008.
Achievements
In October 2007, Combo was included in Ikonz magazine's special Halloween photo shoot, in which she was transformed into a Vampiress. She was featured alongside Hollyoaks actors Ricky Whittle and Kevin Sacre along with other celebrities.
In November 2007, she was nominated as Outstanding Woman in Business 2007 by the Institute of Asian Businesses (IAB), a division of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
In December 2007, Combo publicly backed glamour model Katie Price following the publication of a sticker mocking Price's son in .
Jan Wildt (1962? - ) is an American author of short stories. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he briefly attended Columbia University before working as a stevedore at the Port of San Pedro (California). A 2003 interview with Wildt published in the zine Tungsten contains his only known biographical information. In recent years he has lived at a monastery near San Diego, California.
Wildt's scant published output consists entirely of short stories appearing in small-press magazines devoted to literary and/or speculative fiction. Several of the stories use experimental narrative techniques and high-flown as well as pop-vernacular styles to address "the paradox of human desire," making him one of the past decade's prime exponents of the "erratica" movement in speculative fiction. A similar sensibility is found in selected short fiction by David Foster Wallace and George Saunders, among others. His science-fictional musings on personal identity and the sometimes porous boundaries between minds are reminiscent of those of Philip K. Dick.
Published stories by Jan Wildt include:
*Many Dogs, Barking (1998)
*Like Riding A Bike (1998)
*A Son of the Revolution (2000)
*Wonderfreaks (2001)
*Bink Is Luv (2006)
*Hate Mate Awaits Fate (2006)
*The After-Life (2006)
*Apology (2007)
*The Laughing Bambino (2007)
Wildt's scant published output consists entirely of short stories appearing in small-press magazines devoted to literary and/or speculative fiction. Several of the stories use experimental narrative techniques and high-flown as well as pop-vernacular styles to address "the paradox of human desire," making him one of the past decade's prime exponents of the "erratica" movement in speculative fiction. A similar sensibility is found in selected short fiction by David Foster Wallace and George Saunders, among others. His science-fictional musings on personal identity and the sometimes porous boundaries between minds are reminiscent of those of Philip K. Dick.
Published stories by Jan Wildt include:
*Many Dogs, Barking (1998)
*Like Riding A Bike (1998)
*A Son of the Revolution (2000)
*Wonderfreaks (2001)
*Bink Is Luv (2006)
*Hate Mate Awaits Fate (2006)
*The After-Life (2006)
*Apology (2007)
*The Laughing Bambino (2007)