Scheduled to be released on November 5, 2010 and available at CDBaby.com, Iranian-American musician Roya Bahrami tells us of her new album’s essence: ”It’s a reflection of our multicultural world and the incredible closeness of beings…I am also inspired by Rumi, the ancient Persian mystic’s teachings regarding ‘selflessness’, where one walks the bridge between the visible [...]

I hate Iranian music. Or so I thought. Last night, somewhere between the mandatory, polite applause that pre-empted the screening of  “No One Knows About Persian Cats” and the enthusiastic, deserved standing ovation that followed it, all of that changed. It wasn’t so much the first half of the sentence that became obsolete but the [...]