Square Peg Round Hole Records is a Milton Keynes-based record label. The company's title is an abbreviated reference to the idiomatic phrase "square peg in a round hole."
The label which was created up in 2007 by Tony Dennis, Chris Shaw, Shaun Bradshaw, Wayne Palmer and Chris Granby (who will quit shortly after). Advertising for bands on Labels Myspace site Square Peg joked "Anyone who aspire to become the next Travis or Razorlight please don't bother as we have morals". The label's first release was the single "All I Heard/A Common Interest In Silence" from Hull based Kill Surf City in September 2007, the follow-up single "mixandmatch" from ineedtodiscover was released in December 2007 gaining attention from BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and BBC 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson. Square Peg Round Hole folded in August 2009 blaming financial reasons and differences.
Founder member Shaun Bradshaw now runs Feed That Baby Records, Shaw and Dennis have since formed new label eightk72 Records and have announced their first release will be the debut album from Italian band Kitsunetsuki expected in September 2010.
Artist Roster
* Kill Surf City(Disbanded)
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* (Disbanded)
* Killquicks (Disbanded)
The label which was created up in 2007 by Tony Dennis, Chris Shaw, Shaun Bradshaw, Wayne Palmer and Chris Granby (who will quit shortly after). Advertising for bands on Labels Myspace site Square Peg joked "Anyone who aspire to become the next Travis or Razorlight please don't bother as we have morals". The label's first release was the single "All I Heard/A Common Interest In Silence" from Hull based Kill Surf City in September 2007, the follow-up single "mixandmatch" from ineedtodiscover was released in December 2007 gaining attention from BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and BBC 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson. Square Peg Round Hole folded in August 2009 blaming financial reasons and differences.
Founder member Shaun Bradshaw now runs Feed That Baby Records, Shaw and Dennis have since formed new label eightk72 Records and have announced their first release will be the debut album from Italian band Kitsunetsuki expected in September 2010.
Artist Roster
* Kill Surf City(Disbanded)
*
* (Disbanded)
* Killquicks (Disbanded)
Khadija Zeynalova (born 20 September 1975 Azerbaijan is an Azerbaijani composer.
Life
Her talent for music and composition was noticed by her parents in early childhood when she got passionate about music and started to compose at the age of 11. Having graduated from local music school in 1994, she went on to study composition and musicology at the Baku Academy of Music with Professor Khayyam Mirzezadeh. She has graduated from the Academy with an honours degree in 1998, in order to commence on her Masters degree in composition, which she completed in 2000. Following her graduation, Khadija continued her study at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Martin Christoph Redel, and University of Paderborn, where she is currently working on her PhD degree in musicology.
Along with her academic life, Khadija had also gained a diverse and rich professional experience in composition and teaching (both on college and university level). She had held various positions at Sumgait Music College, Azerbaijan University of Arts and Culture, along with working as a composer in theatres. As recognition of her professional credentials, Khadija become a member of the Azerbaijan Composer’s Union since 1999 and has also a membership at Azerbaijan Association of Women in Music. In 2004 she joined the International Alliance for Women in Music and since 2007 has been a Member of the GEMA (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) in Germany.
Her pieces have been performed in Azerbaijan (in Baku, by “SoNoR” ensemble), Germany (in Detmold, Bremen, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen by “Mutare”, “Horizonte”, and “Neue Musik Ensemble Aachen” ensembles), Italy (Venezia) and etc. She also takes an active part in the “Donaueschinger Musiktage” festival in 4 consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and in the “Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik” (2007), as well as in 44th International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt (2008). On April 28 her composition «Oktetts - Concertino To Aziza» was performed by the “Mutare” ensemble, conducted by Prof. Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, at the Bremen Academy of Arts. She became a Winner of the International Composition Competition “Hamburger Klangwerktage 2007” in Hamburg, 2007. As a result, the winning piece - “Sestinen über Vergänglichkeit” for soprano and piano (2007) - has been performed in Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 2009, "Horizonte" ensemble performed ""Feuertochter" (Daughter of Fire), in Detmold.
Life
Her talent for music and composition was noticed by her parents in early childhood when she got passionate about music and started to compose at the age of 11. Having graduated from local music school in 1994, she went on to study composition and musicology at the Baku Academy of Music with Professor Khayyam Mirzezadeh. She has graduated from the Academy with an honours degree in 1998, in order to commence on her Masters degree in composition, which she completed in 2000. Following her graduation, Khadija continued her study at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Martin Christoph Redel, and University of Paderborn, where she is currently working on her PhD degree in musicology.
Along with her academic life, Khadija had also gained a diverse and rich professional experience in composition and teaching (both on college and university level). She had held various positions at Sumgait Music College, Azerbaijan University of Arts and Culture, along with working as a composer in theatres. As recognition of her professional credentials, Khadija become a member of the Azerbaijan Composer’s Union since 1999 and has also a membership at Azerbaijan Association of Women in Music. In 2004 she joined the International Alliance for Women in Music and since 2007 has been a Member of the GEMA (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) in Germany.
Her pieces have been performed in Azerbaijan (in Baku, by “SoNoR” ensemble), Germany (in Detmold, Bremen, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen by “Mutare”, “Horizonte”, and “Neue Musik Ensemble Aachen” ensembles), Italy (Venezia) and etc. She also takes an active part in the “Donaueschinger Musiktage” festival in 4 consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and in the “Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik” (2007), as well as in 44th International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt (2008). On April 28 her composition «Oktetts - Concertino To Aziza» was performed by the “Mutare” ensemble, conducted by Prof. Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, at the Bremen Academy of Arts. She became a Winner of the International Composition Competition “Hamburger Klangwerktage 2007” in Hamburg, 2007. As a result, the winning piece - “Sestinen über Vergänglichkeit” for soprano and piano (2007) - has been performed in Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 2009, "Horizonte" ensemble performed ""Feuertochter" (Daughter of Fire), in Detmold.
The Accord Language School was created in 1988 as an institute which teaches French as a foreign language. Each year, the school welcomes more than 5000 students from 50 different nationalities and has been awarded the FLE Quality Label from the French ministry of education.
The school is situated in a typical Parisian building on the Grands Boulevards, the site of the old city walls. Having long been called the Boulevard of Crime with its procession of theatres, pubs and eateries, it was renovated in the nineteenth century by the work of Baron Haussmann who modernized Paris and gave birth to a network structure, setting a benchmark in urban theory.
The main objective of the school is to expose students to conditions and constraints that they would face in social life and develop learning strategies to transfer the skills which they already have in their native tongue to communication in French. Grammar is approached through language games, simulations, interactive activities and varied exercises during different moments of communication.
The school is situated in a typical Parisian building on the Grands Boulevards, the site of the old city walls. Having long been called the Boulevard of Crime with its procession of theatres, pubs and eateries, it was renovated in the nineteenth century by the work of Baron Haussmann who modernized Paris and gave birth to a network structure, setting a benchmark in urban theory.
The main objective of the school is to expose students to conditions and constraints that they would face in social life and develop learning strategies to transfer the skills which they already have in their native tongue to communication in French. Grammar is approached through language games, simulations, interactive activities and varied exercises during different moments of communication.
Conservation and Neocolonialism refers to the conservation movement as taken up today by international organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, which has inadvertently set up a neocolonialist relationship with underdeveloped nations in a manner consistent with Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory (Wallerstein, 1974) and Andre Gunder Frank’s
Dependency Theory (Frank, 1975).
Neocolonialism, with its attempts to create dependency through indirect control, demonstrates Andre Gunder Frank’s theory in a modern situation. In terms of conservation, foreign powers in the form of international conservation organizations exert pressure on underdeveloped nations to create protected areas. The national governments of these underdeveloped nations agree to do this because of the economic incentives they are given by the World Bank and donor nations. In Madagascar, for example, the World Bank actively participates in creating national parks by relieving national debt in exchange for establishing wilderness areas (Harper, 2002:97). The World Bank created, and continues to fund, the National Association for the Management of Protected Areas, which the Malagasy government runs, to manage national parks in Madagascar.
Within the underdeveloped nations, the conservation movement has become a form of internal colonialism. By agreeing to create wilderness areas that exclude people, the national governments force the local, often already marginalized, people off their territory. This creates a state of dependence on the state by the local people for their socioeconomic well-being. In the late 1980s, the conservation movement attempted to alleviate this dependency situation by developing community-based conservation (c.f. Drijver, 1992; Brockington, 2001). This utopian vision has not been quite as successful as planned, however. As Anthropologist Carol A. Drijver notes, “the local rural population may be used as informants and sometimes consulted for their opinions. However, this does not necessarily give them any real control or participation in the direction of the project” (Drijver, 1992:133). While international conservation organizations promise social and economic improvement to local communities as a direct result of the creation of national parks and protected areas, the outcome is seldom successful. Jobs created by the parks are more often given to people from outside the area with more education or connections than the local people often have.
Dependency Theory (Frank, 1975).
Neocolonialism, with its attempts to create dependency through indirect control, demonstrates Andre Gunder Frank’s theory in a modern situation. In terms of conservation, foreign powers in the form of international conservation organizations exert pressure on underdeveloped nations to create protected areas. The national governments of these underdeveloped nations agree to do this because of the economic incentives they are given by the World Bank and donor nations. In Madagascar, for example, the World Bank actively participates in creating national parks by relieving national debt in exchange for establishing wilderness areas (Harper, 2002:97). The World Bank created, and continues to fund, the National Association for the Management of Protected Areas, which the Malagasy government runs, to manage national parks in Madagascar.
Within the underdeveloped nations, the conservation movement has become a form of internal colonialism. By agreeing to create wilderness areas that exclude people, the national governments force the local, often already marginalized, people off their territory. This creates a state of dependence on the state by the local people for their socioeconomic well-being. In the late 1980s, the conservation movement attempted to alleviate this dependency situation by developing community-based conservation (c.f. Drijver, 1992; Brockington, 2001). This utopian vision has not been quite as successful as planned, however. As Anthropologist Carol A. Drijver notes, “the local rural population may be used as informants and sometimes consulted for their opinions. However, this does not necessarily give them any real control or participation in the direction of the project” (Drijver, 1992:133). While international conservation organizations promise social and economic improvement to local communities as a direct result of the creation of national parks and protected areas, the outcome is seldom successful. Jobs created by the parks are more often given to people from outside the area with more education or connections than the local people often have.