| Review by Rudy A-Traxx July 3, 2009 (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
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Like many membrane releases, the sound may be large, the surround is not around... Too bad. it was music to play with multichannel
PS : here is the previous review that was from Amazon (and that disapear when when we first post... ):
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Is it book, is it a CD, no it's Zarathustra! (review from amazon.co.uk)
The following review originally appeared in Kindred Spirit magazine under my pseudonym, Kinski, and is now posted with permission on my own music reviews website, which I won't attempt to advertise here!
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! (So really it's all three - a very large, heavy book with a CD and DVD pressed into the rear hard cover. Both the CD and DVD seem to act as normal even though they might technically be in a less common format.)
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 first monotheistic religion it spread through what is now Iran from the 7th century BC until around 650 AD when Islam took over due to the greater Arabian influences 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.
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