> 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.

> 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)

> 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."

> 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...”
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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.

> 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.

> 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.

> 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, or click on Order CD link on the left.

> 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, or click on iTunes.com on the left.

> Rumi: Lovedrunk on WRPI. Listen to In The Spirit program on WRPI Radio, hosted by Gary Goldberg on September 8, 2005 at 3:00 PM New York Time. In The Spirit will be interviewing Shahram Shiva and airing cuts from his new Rumi: Lovedrunk CD. You can also listen to the broadcast in real time on WRPI.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."

> 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: Lovedrunk was 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.

> 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.

> As of August 2004, about 1000 copies of the pre-release version of Rumi: Lovedrunk have been sold or distributed. Every week we receive several e-mails requesting information about the commercial release of this groundbreaking CD.

> Persian Mirror recently interviewed Shahram Shiva about his work with Rumi. Click here to read the interview.

> 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.

More to come...