Track Listing
1. Valentine to Rumi - (musical prelude)
2. My Burning Heart
3. Bittersweet
4. Intoxicated by Love
5. Lover's Passion, The
6. Do You Love Me
7. Come to Me
8. Desire
9. Alchemy of Love, The
10. Caught in the Fire of Love
11. Awakening, The
12. I Am Yours
13. Behind the Scenes
14. Looking for Your Face
15. Meaning of Love, The
16. Aroused Passion
17. Dying to Love
18. Privileged Lovers, The
19. Precious Love
20. Surrender
21. Defeated by Love
22. Lost in the Wilderness
23. Mythical Lover, The
24. I Am and I Am Not
25. Agony of Lovers, The
26. Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent, The
27. Mirror, The
28. Look at Your Eyes
29. Looking for Love
30. Some Kiss
31. Freshness, The
32. My Beloved
33. Hunt, The
34. Desire - (TRUE instrumental)
35. Lover's Madness, A - (TRUE instrumental)
36. Lover's Passion, The - (TRUE instrumental)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 53 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Blythe Danner, Debra Winger, Demi Moore, Goldie Hawn, Madonna, Martin Sheen, Rosa Parks, Sussan Deyhim | | Producer: | Adam Plack, Yaron Fuchs | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Coleman Barks, Chris Barron, Robert John Burke, Deepak Chopra, Guatama Chopra, Blythe Danner, Laura Day, Sussan Deyhim, Jared Harris, Goldie Hawn, Noah Hutton, Madonna, Demi Moore, Rosa Parks, Martin Sheen, Sonja Sohn, Robert A.F. Thurman, Debra Winger.
Includes liner notes by Deepak Chopra.
Personnel: Sussan Deyhim (vocals); Steve Gorn (bansuri, clarinet); Richard Horowitz (ney, keyboards); Yaron Fuchs (keyboards, programming, sampler); Adam Plack (keyboards, sampler); Yossi Fine (bass guitar); Tony Smith (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Yaron Fuchs.
Recording information: Beatstreet, New York, NY; Eastside Sound, New York, NY; Larrabee Sound, Universal City, CA; Ron Rose Productions, Southfield MI.
Photographer: Katrin Thomas.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Chris Barron ; Coleman Barks; Debra Winger; Deepak Chopra M.D.; Demi Moore; Goldie Hawn; Jared Harris; Laura Day; Madonna; Martin Sheen; Noah Hutton; Robert A.F. Thurman; Rosa Parks; Sonja Sohn; Blythe Danner.
Arrangers: Adam Plack; Yaron Fuchs.
Adam Plack and Yaron Fuchs provide the Persian-flavored musical backdrop of A GIFT OF LOVE, but the real focus of this inspirational recording is the poetry of the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi. Deepak Chopra is joined by a host of famous friends including Madonna, Martin Sheen, Demi Moore, Goldie Hawn, and others, reciting Rumi's poems about life, love, spiritual awareness, and worldly delights. The result is an album that will soothe both the ear and the soul.
It wouldn't be remiss to ask: Is A GIFT OF LOVE a meditation on erotic longing, a glorious paean to the Almighty? The answer is: both. The CD, like Jelaleddin Rumi's poetry, manages to be different things to different people. Here bite-size samples of Sufi wisdom cover a range of ideas, from "Desire," to "A Lover's Madness," to "Supreme Lover."
Deepak Chopra's album features the voices of Madonna, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, and other stars, providing the project with instant allure, while bringing in a little street cred via civil rights activist Rosa Parks and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman. Chopra would have been wise to hand over his own readings to the other performers, but overall, the album makes a good introduction to these timeless 13th century verses, and the accompanying music is danceable in its own right.
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