Opium Moon , 2019 Grammy Award Winner

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 9 p.m.

b'Join us as we have 2019 Grammy Award Winners Opium Moon\\n\\n\\xa0 \\xa0Opium Moon is Kama Sutra music...a sensual and groovy collaboration of\\xa0master musicians LiliHaydn on Violin/Voice, Hamid Saeidi on Santoor\\xa0(Persian hammered dulcimer) and voice, MB Gordy on ancient percussion,\\xa0and Itai Disraeli on fretless bass. We come from the corners of the\\xa0world\\u2014Israel, Iran, and the US\\u2014-making peace through harmony.\\n\\nOpium Moon\\u2019s\\xa0name was inspired by a poem by the great Sufi poet Hafiz, in which he says:\\n\\nThe bird\\u2019s favorite songs\\n\\nYou do not hear,\\n\\nFor their most flamboyant music takes place\\n\\nWhen their wings are stretched\\n\\nAbove the trees\\n\\nAnd they are smoking the opium of pure freedom\\u2026\\n\\nI once asked a bird,\\n\\n\\u201cHow is it that you fly in this gravity\\n\\nOf darkness?\\u201d\\n\\nShe responded,\\n\\n\\n\\u201cLove lifts Me\\u201d'