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Zarathustra – Sina Vodjani (Membran Music)
Zarathustra – Sina Vodjani (Membran Music) www.membran.net When I suggested to Christiane at Membran.net that I would be more than happy to receive new offerings from Germany to review, I wasn’t expecting what was soon to arrive on my doorstep. Zarathustra is an extraordinary package whichever way you look at it. Is it a book? Is it a CD? Is it a DVD? No, it’s an extraordinary multimedia experience! With the book’s text in both German and English, Sina Vodjani leads us on a journey back through time to the origins of the people and culture of ancient Persia where Zoroastrianism was born. As the world’s fi rst monotheistic religion it spread through what is now Iran from the 7th century BC until around AD 650 when Islam took over due to the greater Arabian infl uences all around. Although there is some explanatory text at the beginning of the book, the major part is made over to full-page photographs capturing not only the amazing architectural legacy of Zoroastrianism, but also the landscape and people of this great nation. Like China, Iran has also gained a pretty negative public image courtesy of the so-called free world press, so one can but applaud the release of this extraordinary work at this time, through which a glimpse into such a rich but reassuringly ordinary and human cultural heritage can be gained. Sina Vodjani is a man with a unique, great and individual vision, beautifully realised here in this most ambitious project, which would make a most out-of-the-ordinary gift for someone for whom seeing silence speaks louder than words.
by Kinski
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