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Saturday 23 August 2008

Fire breaks out at Reading festival

A fire broke out at the Reading Festival today (August 23) at around 4pm (BST), when fire fighters were called to deal with the blaze.

The flaming broke kayoed in one of the festival automobile parks, with around 10 vehicles climb down, reports BBC News.

Smoke could be seen from the main festival arena.

The fire was contained by around 5pm, with no injuries reported. Festival-goer Jessie Fletcher, wHO was parked near to the fire site, told NME.COM that the fervor was started when a punter lost control of a barbequeue.

A spokesperson for Berkshire Fire and Rescue said that as substantially as local firefighters, the festival's have fire divine service team had been in attendance to help deal with the blaze.

NME.COM is bringing you live reporting straight from both sites of the Reading And Leeds Festivals 2008. For the up-to-the-minute news, blogs, pictures and video interviews head to the Reading And Leeds Festivals index now.

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Wednesday 13 August 2008

Download Jamshied Sharifi

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A Prayer for the Soul of Layla

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The music of the populace is blended through the compositions of pianoforte and synthesiser player, composer, and music theatre managing director, Jamshied Sharifi. While his initial focus was on American jazz, Sharifi has incorporated a divers chain of mountains of influences into his music including elements of Middle Eastern and African music and wind. In addition to arrangement and producing albums for Japanese and Korean artists, as comfortably as Susan McKeown and Akira Satake's 1988 record album, Bushes and Briars, Sharifi recorded little Joe albums with earthly concern fusion band, Mo Bama. His solo album, A Prayer for the Soul of Layla was named Best Contemporary World Music Album at the first class honours academic degree annual New Age Voice Music Awards.

A aboriginal of Kansas City, Sharifi was elysian by the city's wind scene, as well as the Middle Eastern music played by his beginner. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a academic degree in humanistic discipline, he continued to sharpen his instrumental skills at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he studied jazz pianoforte and theme. The recipient role of an laurels as Outstanding Jazz Pianist at the Collegiate Jazz Festival at the University of Notre Dame in 1983, he served as the managing director of the Festival Jazz Ensemble from 1985 until 1992. Under his direction, the chemical group was named Outstanding Jazz Band in 1991. Much of Sharifi's attention has been devoted to film soundtracks. He played keyboards and wrote orchestrations for soundtrack composer and Berklee College of Music professor Mike Gibbs for seven-spot years and, later, composed and produced the soundtracks of Rugrats, Muppets From Space, and Harriet the Spy, for which his wife, Miyuki Sakamoto wrote the orchestrations.