A Musico-visual encounter with " color of paradise " directed by Majid Majidi.

Created & Produced / Arden Zahedi-Bogucka & Massod Vadiee
Featuring / Singer/Composer/Guitarist, Masih Mohaghegh with Sepideh Vahidi
Words / Sohrab Sepehri
Sound Mixage / Soho studios London
Dokumuzik Projekt
Az kolexion e London
(2011)

" it is Arden Zahedi-Bogucka and Massod Vadiee's exquisite adaptation of Master Bahram Beizai's eternal masterpiece "Bashu: The Little Stranger" (1989)--with a sublime score that gives a whole new spectrum to the work."
Hamid Dabashi,the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York

The Color Of Paradise

Director Majid Majidi, whose Bacheha-Ye Aseman/Children Of Heaven was the first Iranian film to be nominated for an American Academy Award, returns with another compassionate story of children in need. Mohammad (Moshen Ramezani) is a student at a special school for blind children in Tehran; when summer break rolls around, Mohammad is the last student to be picked up by his family. His mother is dead, and his father (Hossein Mahjub), who earns a meagre wage working in a charcoal producing plant, sometimes considers abandoning the boy. However, father does eventually arrive, and Mohammad spends the summer with his sisters and grandmother at a farm surrounding by dazzling fields of wild flowers. The summer in the country is a joyous experience for Mohammad, until he discovers his father is giving thoughts to re-marrying, and considers his handicapped son to be a stumbling block in his future matrimonial plans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Paradise

Masih Mohaghegh

Masih Mohaghegh's (Shidi) career as a musician has spanned almost five decades. Composing and performing has been a life time passion, taking him from lead guitarist and singer in a 60's rock band to developing a unique contribution to “world fusion” music.His search to create a new style of fusion has lead him to experiment with sound- engineering and mix to incorporate Persian classical music and instruments such as tar, setar, kamancheh, santur, nay… with the guitar,keyboards,drums and percussions. The result combines the best of old and new.Taking inspiration from celebrated Persian poets such as Rumi,Sohrab Sepehri,Ahmad Shamlou…makes his songs speak across generations and cultures. The timeless themes of love, family, hope and faith address our common humanity.
http://myspace.com/shidiandfriends

Sepideh Vahidi
Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh studied Persian folklore and traditional Persian music under some of the finest masters of this art. Weaving the transparent layers of many emotions into a sound that could not be defined by the name of a land with borders became her tradition. However Sepideh’s vocals have deep roots in her Iranian identity, femininity, and very much influenced by Persian poetry. Living in America, Sepideh studied Fine Arts, once again using layers as her primary tool. Both in her vocals and her artworks, she folds and unfolds, twist and turns notes to express the happiness, pain, love, grief, hope, nostalgia, and memories that haunt her in life.Current Location San Francisco Bay Area
info@sepidehvahidi.com

Sohrab Sepehri's "Where is Friend's House?"

“Where is the friend’s house?”
Horseman asked by twilight and,
The sky paused.

The passerby presented sands, the branch of light that he had in mouth
And pointed to a poplar tree and said:

“Before reaching the tree,
There is a garden alley that is greener than God’s sleep
And in it, love is as blue as the feathers of honesty.
Go to the end of the alley which stops at the back of adolescence.
Then turn to the flower of loneliness,
Two steps short of reaching the flower,
Stay by the fountain of eternal myth of earth
And you feel a transparent fear.
And in the fluid sincerity of the air, you will hear a scratch:
You will see a child
Who has gone up the pine tree, to grab a bird from the nest of light
And you ask him
Where the friend’s house is.”