Glasgow. Their debut album Come To Me was released in 2014 at the London Jazz Festival. Come To Me has been selected as one of the best albums of 2015 at All About Jazz website by several reviewers and the band has toured extensively since the release date. The Quartet's new double album 'Our New Earth' is scheduled to be released in 2019 on Moonjune Records. Recently, Asaf has been collaborating with various artists on the Moonjune Records record label. Notably, the Reuter/Wingfield/Stavi Sirkis collaboration album has been selected as a masterpiece of 2017 at DownBeat magazine as well as receiving rave reviews. Asaf can be heard on many recent Moonjune albums alongside Spanish guitarist Carles Benavent, Nguyen Le, Dewa Budjana, Indonesian pianist Dwiki Dharmawan, Gary Husband, Mark Wingfield, Markus Reuter, and many more. Education Sirkis has been studying the art of the south Indian vocal percussion (Konnakol) at the Tamil centre in west London under the guidance of master percussionist Mr Paramasamy Kirupakaran and from various other sources. Asaf has developed a simple, step-by-step method of teaching Konnakol that can help any instrumentalist or vocalist of any musical genre and level to increase rhythmic awareness and focus. Nowadays, Sirkis is involved in a variety of educational work, bringing Konnakol to western music education as a useful tool of understanding rhythm for western musicians. He has given many workshops and seminars around the world on the subject and has a YouTube channel with Konnakol tutorials. As of 2017, he is a principal lecturer in jazz drums at Leeds College of Music and teaches drums and Konnakol at Trinity Laban Conservatory in London. Discography As leader and collaborator (2022) Asaf Sirkis, *Solar flash (2019) The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet, Our New Earth (2016) Asaf Sirkis, "Full Moon" (2014) The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet, Come to Me (2013) Asaf Sirkis Trio, Shepherd's Stories (2012) Simcock/Garland/Sirkis, Lighthouse ACT (2010) Asaf Sirkis Trio, Letting Go (2008) Asar Sirkis Trio, The Monk (2007) Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise, The Song Within (2005) Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise, We are Falling (2003) Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise, Inner Noise (1998) Asaf Sirkis Trio, One Step Closer As a sideman (1990) Biological Madness – Biological Madness (1991) Odeon – Odeon (1992) Tact – Downtown (1993) Harold Rubin – Trialog (1993) Changes – Changes (1994) Rami Shuler – With One Breath (1994) Return to Zero – Return