| Featuring Alan Kushan on Santur
X DOT 25 Music Productions is celebrating Rumi's 790th birthday on September 30, 1997. A spiritual journey into the realm of Persian verse and music.
To mark Rumi's 790th birthday and more exposure for this great Persian poet and philosopher, X DOT 25 Music is releasing a 60 minute CD containing poems from Rumi's "Divaan-e Kabeer" book accompanied by music performed by Alan Kushan on Santur.
For many years, the followers of Rumi's philosophy have enjoyed Koorosh's interpretations in reading the poetry of this thirteenth century philosopher/poet. The San Francisco Weekly Magazine Wammies Award winner, Koorosh Angali has constantly been a student of his heritage, incorporating the magnificent aspects of his culture in his painting, poetry, and music.
Jelâl Ad-dîn Muhammad Balkhi was nicknamed "Mawlânâ" (Our Master) by the Middle Eastern mystics, and is wrongly known as Rumi in the West - due to the fact that he spent the latter part of his life, and died, in Kunya, the city in Turkey which is also known as the Eastern Rome (hence the words Rum and Rumi 'from Rum').
He was born on September 30, 1207 in Balkh, a city in Afghanistan which was a part of the Persian empire at that time. His father, Bahâ' Ad-dîn Muhammad - known as Bahâ' Walad, also was a practitioner of a Sufi sect known as Kobrawi (the followers of Nadjm Ad-dîn Kobri), and as a reputable preacher he also was called Sultan Al Ulamâ' (the King of the Learned/Scholar).
His family probably fled from Balkh around 1219-20 AD, due to the invasion of Eastern Iran by the Mongols. They first went to Baghdad but soon headed for Hijaz, in an attempt to pay a visit to Ka'ba. From there they went, first to Syria and then settled in Kunya, where Mawlânâ spent the rest of his life until his death on December 17, 1273.
The "event" of his life was his meeting with Shams of Tabriz (Shams Ad-dîn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Malak-dâd Tabrizi), a slender tall wandering Sufi in his sixties with piercing, yet kind eyes and a sad suffering face, sometime in the December of 1245 AD. It was only after this encounter that Mawlânâ realized what he had learned in his religious and gnostic studies and what they really meant. That was his first encounter with the real meaning of Life.
All music in this album is played spontaneously in a jam session.
Style/Genre: World/Ambient/Inspirational/Spritual/Rumi's Poetry
Instrumentation: Persian Poetry, Santur, Soft Orchestral Synthesizers. |
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