- Click
on any of the images of Shiva's books and CDs to order directly from
Amazon.com or CDBaby.com, or click here for an overview.
- >Iran’s
New Murmur for Freedom – A Look Back & Personal Journey
The
recent outpouring for justice and basic human rights from the streets
of Iran, my country of birth, takes me back 30 years ago to the first
revolution. The bloody, wild, loud and destructive revolution and
regime change that I witnessed first hand and remember very vividly
through the eyes of an active 16-year-old teenager.
Read more...
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It's been 20 years since Shahram Shiva began working, translating
and sharing Rumi. Shiva began his deep and very personal connection
with Rumi in 1988. Listen to a new 52-min interview with Shahram Shiva,
broadcast on WRPI-FM and webcast on WRPI.org on August 7, 2008. In
this interview by Gary Goldberg, Shiva talks about twenty years of
living with Rumi and what it has meant for him. Goldberg also plays
a few cuts from Shiva's CD, Rumi: Lovedrunk. Shiva also talks
about shattering inaccurate cliché notions on spirituality
and personal growth.
Please click here to listen.
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Listen
to a 50-min interview with Shahram Shiva, broadcast on WRPI-FM and
webcast on WRPI.org in 2008. Please click here to listen.
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BBC World Service program on Rumi, includes interview with Shahram
Shiva:
Please click
on this link to listen to a lovely 26-minute program on BBC
World Service called "Heart and Soul," hosted by Shusha
Guppy and produced by Anne Khazam. This episode is on Rumi's 800th
birth anniversary and it includes interviews with Shahram Shiva, Andrew
Harvey and several others and even mentions Leonard Cohen's love of
Rumi and how he found Rumi an inspiration. Don't miss it! (This
streaming audio seems to work only on Internet Explorer)
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Shahram
Shiva's interview on BBC Turkey’s report on Rumi:
It helps if you speak Turkish. Click
here to listen to a beautifully produced 20-minute BBC
Turkey report on Rumi's 800 Birthday celebration. The report includes
several interviews with people from different countries and some sample
songs in different languages based on Rumi's poetry. Mr. Shiva is
part of this program, with some sample pieces from Rumi: Lovedrunk
also included. When you open the link, select your audio player and
then click on "tamam."
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Read an in-depth review of "Rumi: Lovedrunk" on MetaphorsForLife.com.
Here's an excerpt:
...In Lovedrunk Shiva has dipped briefly but deeply into the
vast ocean of words that Rumi left us and set them to music composed
by Olivier Glissant. The music and words complement each other so
completely that you begin to wonder how you ever heard Rumi’s
poetry without it. It is a lushly sensual, passionate, devoted,
and contemplative trek through the mystic heart from beginning to
end.
In
several tracks Shiva marries spoken Persian with English and the
two languages entwine like, well, like lovers. It is an erotic interplay
of cultures and concepts much as the music itself, which is a blend
of Middle-Eastern tonalities and phrasings over western beats. The
combination is a seduction of the intellect and the senses, rendered
by a Lover, embraced by the Beloved. In Rumi’s own words, the
two are one in such a way that there is no telling which originated
where. The CD is so well-paced and crafted that it’s challenging
to pick out one track as a “favorite...”
metaphorsforlife.com
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Listen to a radio interview on NPR with Shahram Shiva from February
27, 2007. Please
click here to listen to a 20 min. interview with Shahram Shiva,
on New York's NPR station, WNYC-FM and WNYC.org. Legendary host John
Schaefer talks with Shiva about the International Year of Rumi, popularity
of Rumi in the West and also hear clips from Shiva's CD, RUMI: Lovedrunk.
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Shahram Shiva to star in an indipendent movie 8 Stones.
8 Stones is directed by Rati Oneli. The story revolves around
24hrs in the life of its main character and the different personalities
that he comes across. Shiva plays one of those personalities, a poet
limo driver who quotes Rumi and together they go for a dreamy/mythical
ride which at the end may or may not have happened. It's a 10-min
scene in this feature lenghth movie that he helped develop and write.
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> To celebrate the 800th birth anniversary of Rumi, UNESCO has
announced that 2007 will be The International Year of Rumi.
Rumi was born in 1207 and died in 1273.
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Rumi: Lovedrunk available to order. We are very
happy to inform you that Rumi: Lovedrunk is now available to
order from CDBaby.com. Please click here to listen and to place your
order: cdbaby.com/cd/lovedrunk
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Rumi: Lovedrunk available to download on iTunes.com.
We are happy to inform you that Rumi: Lovedrunk is now available
to download from iTunes.com. Please click here: RUMI:
Lovedrunk on iTunes,
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Rumi:
Lovedrunk on NPR. Listen to the Newsounds program on
NPR, hosted by John Schaefer on June 9, 2005 at 11:00PM New York time
(or Eastern US). Newsounds will be airing cuts from the Rumi:
Lovedrunk CD. You can also listen to the broadcast in real time on
WNYC.ORG.
- Rumi
on HBO. A poem of Rumi is read at a funeral scene in the HBO series
6 Feet Under. To watch look for 5th Season, Episode
61, All Alone. The following is the copy of the poem:
"Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? 'God is One.'
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad."
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Rumi.Net is very pleased to announce: The first ever online forum
for Lovers of Rumi was launched on Rumi's birthday, September 30,
2004. Click here to enter the Forum.
- Persian
Mirror recently interviewed Shahram Shiva about his work with
Rumi. Click
here to read the interview.
- Whirling
in a movie? This is a historical moment for cinema. For the very first
time a Western actor will be whirling on the screen. Robert Downey
Jr. (coached by Shahram Shiva) will be whirling in the movie "Game
6" to be released in 2006. This movie which also stars Michael
Keaton and Catherine O'Hara, is produced by Amy Robinson, directed
by Mike Hoffman with a script written by Don Delillo.
- Rumi:
Lovedrunk is being considered as music
for an upcoming movie GAME 6. This movie stars Michael Keaton, Robert
Downey Jr. and Catherine O'Hara, is based on a script by Don Delillo
and is directed by Michael Hoffman.
- Shahram
Shiva's first Rumi book A Garden Beyond Paradise, with Jonathan
Star, was released in German in 2005. This is the second German printing
of this book.
- New
Odes and Quatrains have been added to our Poems
page.
- Rumi.net
was redesigned recently for ease of navigation and faster download
time. We hope you enjoy our newly modified look.
- yourname@rumi.net
is now being offered by popular demand. If you are interested in your
own personal and private rumi.net e-mail account please contact us
at shams@rumi.net for more information.
- Rumi:
Lovedrunk is Shahram Shiva's forthcoming
CD produced in partnership with Michael Harrison and composer &
producer Olivier Glissant. Over two years in the making, this groundbreaking
new audio project incorporates more than a dozen talented musicians
from Persia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and includes original
compositions by Glissant and Harrison. This new CD blends the exotic
and the meditative with hip grooves and inventive arrangements of
Glissant, mesmerizing vocals and musicianship of Harrison, and the
deep, resonant and hypnotic voice of Shiva.
Expect more information as the launch date approaches. Sample tracks
are now availeble on our page
Books, CDs & Media, or visit lovedrunk.com.
- Rumi
Network is pleased to announce the launch of
Lovedrunk.com to help celebrate the upcoming release of Shahram
Shiva's long awaited new CD, Rumi, Lovedrunk.
- Read
an interview with
Shahram Shiva about his thoughts on Rumi's popularity in the West
and nuances of his personality.
- Read
an open letter
from Shahram Shiva dated May 30, 2002, on the occasion of the
end of the recovery efforts at the Ground Zero.
- Read
an article on Rumi dated April 4, 2002, in The
San Fracisco Chronicle, which includes an interview with Shiva.
- Read
an article on Rumi in The Dallas
Morning News, which includes an interview with Shiva.
- Books,
CDs & Media includes interactive Flash samples of each of
Mr. Shiva's books, interwoven with classical Persian miniature paintings
of the 15th Century. It also includes audio samples of Shiva's recitations
of Rumi poems.
- Shiva
has narrated the epic and much beloved story of Bhagavat Gita for
the Chinmaya Mission's groundbreaking "The
Journey to the Truth" CD-ROM project. A recipient of 2002
Summit Creative Award, for its outstanding creative work.
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