Aria Rostami – Sibbe II

Sibbe II is taken from the album Sibbe by Aria Rostami. As a child of immigrants from Iran, San Francisco’s Rostami came to understand that even his own idea of Iran comes from a specific cohort of the Iranian diaspora living in America and that his view of Persian culture is not the full picture. So what is the full picture? How accurate is our understanding of the world in general? Rostami’s response is to take the same route as Americans before him and make an amalgamation of many cultures to create som