Music/ Hossein Alizadeh with Jivan Gasparyan & Tehran Choir imagery/Arsin Mal AlanАршин мал алан (film, 1945) digital enhancement/Heriknaz Sibirian
visual adaptation/Massod Vadiee
produced/Arden Zahedi-Bogucka
a dokumuzik group project
london , Uk 2021

Iranian musician Hossein Alizadeh (playing a 6-stringed instrument called a shurangiz) and Armenian composer Djivan Gasparyan (playing an oboe-like instrument known as the duduk) collaborated on stage before an audience of 12,000 at the Niavaran Palace in Tehran in 2003. Recorded for posterity, the resulting album, Endless Vision, captures the sense of time and place (you can almost hear the stars overhead twinkling in solemn approval) as well as the sense of community, devotion, and grace inherent in the music. Accompanied by the Hamavayan Ensemble--a group of Armenian vocalists and back-up musicians-Alizadeh and Gasparyan create an atmosphere of unworldly majesty that merges with a sense of deep humility and reverence. Egos vanish in the perfumed haze and an ecstatic sense of delight and joy in simple things pervades. Part of the "Silk Road" program, devoted to bringing the music of different cultures together in an effort to create global harmony, this album is a resounding success.