Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1998. Two compact discs.
Recorded during the annual Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, B'ismillah communicates the deeply moving music of this landmark event. This exceptional recording demonstrates how world-renowned artists respond to a divine presence experienced beyond artificial boundaries that separate and divide.
January/February 2001
By Shri Anandi Ma
Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1997. Audio cassettes.
Shri Anandi Ma, a female master who performs devotional chant, presents nine ecstatic songs of praise, accompanied by harmonium, tamboura, and percussion, evoking a reverence for the sacred reality that pervades all living creation.
January/February 2001
Love Is Fire and I Am Wood: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1998. Six audio cassettes.
Sufi teacher and writer Vaughan-Lee presents a "spiraling series of talks" containing over eight hours of poetry, insights, and teachings from the Sufi tradition.
January/February 2001
Poems of RumiBy Robert Bly and Coleman Barks
San Bruno, CA: Audio Literature, 1989. Two audio cassettes.
Rumi has remained a perennial favorite during the seven centuries following his death in 1273. His sacred poetry belongs to the Sufi tradition of "spiritual heroism" and love that powerfully transcends cultural boundaries. Barks and Blvy each read from their own translations, with musical accompaniment.
January/February 2001
By Andrew Harvey
Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1998. Four audio cassettes.
Andrew Harvey's reconstruction presents the historical Jesus in a manner that simultaneously invigorates and disturbs Christians. Harvey enlists the mystical tradition within Christianity and his own analysis of the Gospel materials in a myth-clearing process that eliminates centuries-old distortions and corruptions in an attempt to restore the historical figure. Harvey's treatment never diminishes the enormous significance ascribed to Jesus; instead Jesus is interpreted as infinitely important. Some critics, however, will view Harvey's book as unreasonably conservative and inconsistent with the finest: contemporary biblical scholarship.
January/February 2001
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