Sounds of the Silk Road, by Daniel Attwell

Sounds of the Silk Road

by Daniel Attwell

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1.	Turkey - Istanbul: Call to Prayer 09:26	buy track
2.	Turkey - Istanbul: 30 seconds of rain 00:31	buy track
3.	Turkey - Istanbul: Recordings from inside a mosque 05:17	buy track
4.	Turkey - Istanbul: Evening prayer at Mehmet Pasha Mosque 05:10	buy track
5.	Turkey - Arrival at the Black Sea 02:23	buy track
6.	Turkey - Blackgammon on the Black Sea 04:40	buy track
7.	Turkey - Trabzon: Call to Prayer 04:31	buy track
8.	Turkey - Trabzon: Protest and Music 02:15	buy track
9.	Turkey - Kurdistan: Traditional music near Ishak Pasha Palace 09:28	buy track
10.	Iran - Marand: Hotel room TV sounds 02:47	buy track
11.	Iran - Qom: Prayer recital 00:21	buy track
12.	Iran - Qom: Street tannoy 00:35	buy track
13.	Iran - Isfahan: Echoes in the Jameh Mosque 01:22	buy track
14.	Iran - Shiraz: Hafez tomb 'Welcome to my city' 00:48	buy track
15.	Iran - Shiraz: Call to prayer from inside a market 04:32	buy track
16.	Iran - Desert Winds amongst Tamarisk 00:30	buy track
17.	Iran - Mahan: Prayer gathering in Shah Nematollah Vali mosque 01:48	buy track
18.	Iran - Tehran: Salim Ghazi Saeedi on guitar 03:14	buy track
19.	Tajikistan - Pamir Highway: Village sounds 01:02	buy track
20.	Tajikistan - Pamir Highway: Shepherd moving his flock 02:19	buy track
21.	Tajikistan - Alichu, Pamir Highway: Murmerings in the Homestay 02:01	buy track
22.	Tajikistan - Murghab: Noises in the chikhana 02:06	buy track
23.	Tajikistan - Karakol Lake lapping 00:31	buy track
24.	Tajikistan - Karakol: Girls collecting water 00:58	buy track
25.	China - Xinjiang Province: Uyghur chefs playing a 3 string instrument at our lunch stop 08:50	buy track
26.	China - Jiayuguan, Gansu Province: Men playing ShaoQia 04:00	buy track
27.	China - Zhangye: 3 men playing traditional music in Dafo temple 09:50	buy track
28.	China - Zhangye: Tannoy chants in Dafo Temple 00:31	buy track
29.	China - Vegetable seller loudspeaker 00:36	buy track
30.	China - Goat Shepherd herding her flock 00:19	buy track
31.	China - Kunming: Mr. Xia playing Blowing in the Wind 06:03	buy track
32.	Laos - Sounds of the Jungle 01:33	buy track
33.	Laos - Houay Khing village: Sihn playing the Khan 01:35	buy track
34.	Laos - Sounds of the Jungle with birds 01:10	buy track
35.	Laos - Sounds of the Jungle with birds II 02:01	buy track
36.	Laos - More Sounds of the Jungle with birds and monkey 01:38	buy track
37.	Laos - Watching Karaoke on TV in a Karaoke bar 11:55	buy track
38.	Laos - The latest soap opera 00:30	buy track
39.	Laos - Loud Jungle buzz 01:36	buy track
40.	Laos - A walk through a Buddha birthday festival 01:39	buy track
41.	Laos - Buddhist chanting at a Buddha birthday festival 02:19	buy track
42.	Cambodia - Wunsei: Tannoy in Market playing 'funky' pop music 06:48	buy track
43.	Cambodia - Watching bad TV from inside a shop 04:34	buy track
44.	Cambodia - Senonaram: Tannoy playing funeral music 04:46	buy track
45.	Cambodia - Modern pop song from a mobile phone 03:09	buy track
46.	Cambodia - Call to Prayer: Snoul to Chlong back road 01:28	buy track
47.	Cambodia - Islamic evening prayer recital on Snuol to Chlong back road 06:23	buy track
48.	Cambodia - Tropical storm from inside my tent 04:17	buy track
49.	Cambodia - Two women chatting 01:32	buy track
50.	Cambodia - Svayleu: Evening chanting in a Buddhist temple 04:35	buy track
51.	Cambodia - Siem Reap: Traditional song from a children´s play 01:11	buy track
52.	Cambodia - Cardamom mountains: Musician playing traditional stringed instument 03:03	buy track
53.	Cambodia - Wedding music near the Thai border 03:17	buy track
54.	Thailand - Tannoy announcements at a market 02:25	buy track
55.	Thailand - Pang Mapha, Chang Mai: Monks chanting in Buddhist temple 05:16	buy track
56.	India - Kolkota: Hindi pop from a market 01:50	buy track
57.	India - West Bengal: Drunk man singing with giggling children 01:53	buy track
58.	India - Sikkim: Bird call at night with crickets 00:52	buy track
59.	India - Soreng, Sikkim: The toll of a bell on a giant Buddhist prayer wheel 01:13	buy track
60.	India - Yuksom, Sikkim: Buddhist monks chanting in Yuksom monastery 04:40	buy track
61.	India - Yuksom, Sikkim: Buddhist monk chanting with Tibetan Rolmo cymbals 05:17	buy track
62.	India - Ravangla, Sikkim: Monks chatting over dinner in Tibetan 01:02	buy track
63.	India - Ravangla, Sikkim: Buddhist chanting with bells 04:27	buy track
64.	India - Ravangla, Sikkim: Tibetan long horns and short horns 10:21	buy track
65.	India - Uttarkhand: Smokey breakfast stop 01:37	buy track
66.	India - Women chatting in shop 01:39	buy track
67.	India - Alchi, Ladakh: Buddhist chanting, drums and bells from Alchi Monastery 02:13	buy track
68.	India - Almora: Chanting in Hindi temple 01:29	buy track
69.	India - Almora: Street tannoy of chanting from Hindi temple 01:35	buy track
70.	India - Fuzzy radio playing Hindi pop 04:19	buy track
71.	India - Bollywood or Hindi pop, radio or TV 05:24	buy track
72.	India - Tannoy announcement 00:54	buy track
73.	Nepal - Indra Chowk, Kathmandu: 1 1/2 minutes of street noise & Golden temple bell 01:31	buy track
74.	Nepal - Pisang, Annapurna Circuit: Playing Para 02:16	buy track
75.	Nepal - Manang: Group of men pulling a tree trunk 00:35	buy track

about

The recordings on this album are chronological, they follow the route I took on my bike in 2013, a route that took me through the old Silk Road from Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, India and Nepal.
The idea was to record sounds that would captivate the essence of life in these countries and maybe more importantly the sounds that would make this journey memorable to me when I listened to these recordings in years to come, and I believe would be an insight into worlds that many other people are interested in too.
The Silk Road crosses many countries, and there were many different roads spanning along different landscapes and cultures, but for me, my main motivation was to visit the ancient lands of the Stans of Central Asia, and to fulfil a lifelong dream of seeing the most incredible architecture and tile work the world has ever seen.
At the time I made 100s of recording and recently narrowed it down to these 81 you have here, they are a strange mix, even haphazard sometimes but there is a theme. As the Silk Road that I chose to follow passes through mostly Islamic nations so the recordings also reflect the cultures I chose to travel through. The call to prayer, prayer recitals, chantings, many religious daily rituals are reproduced here. But also, people live there lives and the fascinating daily lives of others who speak different languages is also captivated here, people chatting in the street, playing traditional games, banter, people playing music, watching TV and listening to the radio.
Its interesting how we live and what we do to make up this life, this is the essence of this album.

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released November 2, 2023

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Sounds of the Silk Road Granada, Spain

In 2013, before I left on a long journey cycle touring around the world in search of Islamic geometric tile works and mountains roughly following The Silk Road a friend gave me a hand held digital audio recorder and along the way I recorded memorable sounds. A mix of daily street sounds, people playing their instruments, everyday chats, natural bird, insect or weather sounds, all kinds o wierdness ... more

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