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About Me

Hmm Well I'm a bit of a multi-faceted post-modern poser. I like to sing to my hearts content-have a couple of bands and collaborating with a few others. Mostly jazz and trip hop but I've been western classically trained and can reel off a few Indian classics while I'm at it. Currently though my focus is my sitar and I am a part of the London Sitar Ensemble (the world's only such one) and we have recently performed the Royal Festival Hall in London.. Always open to jam and explore new facets so drop me a line! Besides that, I'm also working on a couple of documentaries: without going into details, one is about China whilst travelling out there, I picked up on some rather interesting themes (mwahaha). To feed my intellect and my wallet with some consistency, I'm currently researching for a PhD in relation to Neuroscience and musical creativity. So my fundamental essences being firmly ensconced in Science, my head wanders off into the lofty clouds of the Arts. So now you understand my first sentence.I come from Bangladesh originally and am a director of a social entrepreneurship called Dormasphere. With our help artisans from Bangladesh can continue to support themselves with their traditional culture and craft handed down for centuries; they wont be forced to work in unsafe factories using unnatural and synthetic materials. So we sell their handmade artefacts in London-straight to students for their halls of residences! Its cheap, fair, handmade, natural, environmentally-friendly and funky West-meets-East design (no piece is the same as its all handmade). And whats more, everything gets delivered straight to your doorstep-so watch out Ikea! Please feel free to contact me if you're interested:)visit www.dormasphere.com its still in its baby stages mind!
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My Interests

Dancing; reading; making music (and love?)-singing, sitar, guitar, djembe; travelling; photography (been exhibited in a couple of exhibitions so things have just begun to roll on this baby);and writing my stories.

I'd like to meet:

People with soul, soldiers; rocks in their hearts, rockers; mad scentists and delicate dancers; mad maxes and laughing comedians. You have an idea? Lets ruminate and explore my friend..

Music:

'writing about music is like dancing about architecture'-some famous person This is exactly like asking tell me what it means to be you. Its too difficult. Well heck, maybe Lamb, Portishead, Nitin Sawhney could begin to explain, Buena Vista Social Club, St Germaine, Gotan Project, azimouth, barnaby 5, soundspecies can start to elucidate further... Nah forget it. I cant. I'll give you genres instead: Jazz, trip hop, underground hiphop, psychedelic trance, (rock was my baby once and along with grunge I like to reminisce once in awhile), breakbeat, drum'n'bass, (Aphex twin-sorry but how can you put this guy in a genre), ambient (massive attack, orbital, morcheeba, buddha bar stuff), techno, indie (getting back into it recently), folk, music from around the world (Ethiopian jewish music, morroccan, indian, bengali).....you get the picture?bit too ecletic too lock up and throw away the key. So if you wanna know.Ask.

Movies:

Interview with the Vampire (how can I forget!),Lady Vengeance (the Vengeance trilogy in general), Y Tu Mama Tambien,About your Mother,The City of God, Trainspotting,American History X, Requiem for a Dream,Leon, the fifth element, My Summer of Love,American Beauty, Schindler's List,The English Patient,East is East, MirrorMask, Pan's Labyrinth, Blame it on Fidel, There's Something about Mary,Sex and Lucia,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Reality Bites,I love Huckabees,Being John Malkovich,TheUsualSuspects,Silence of the Lambs, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,Hero,Zatoichi,Warm water under a red bridge, Brick, The Beat that my heart Skipped (french), Paradise Now etc.These are at the moment.Likely to change depending on how I change methinks.

Television:

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Books:

The WindUp Bird Chronicle; TheGodofSmallThings-Arundhati Roy;Midnight'sChildren;Sidhartha-HermanHesse;AmericanGods-Ne ilGaiman;MiguelSt-V.S.Naipaul;TheFeastOfAllSaints,Violin,Int erview with the Vampire-Anne Rice;TheLife of Pi;GoodOmens,SoulMusic-Terry Pratchett;TheAlchemist;The Doors of Perception; FearAndLoathing in Las Vegas;AClockworkOrange;TheWorldAccordingtoGarp,TheFourthHand -John Irving;The portrait of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde;AMidsummerNightsDream-Shakespeare;The Alchemist;Hitchhiker'sGuideToTheGalaxy

My Blog

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Posted by shama on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:00 PST