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Prayer is better than sleep (Essaouira, Morocco)

from Sounds of the Year 2019 by Cities and Memory

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Fajr call to prayer in Essaouira reimagined by Cities and Memory.

Standing on a rooftop just before sunrise and looking over Essaouira, it was hard not to think of radio waves undulating above the city, pulsing from the TV aerials and joining the beautiful call to prayer in the sky above me, creating a cosmic cloud of sound where tradition and technology meet.

This piece creates a version of that cloud, as radio waves pulsate and surround the listener, while the Fajr call to prayer fades in and out. One synthesised part recreates the waves of the Atlantic, which can clearly be heard in the original recording alongside the muezzin's call.

The piece title comes from the line "prayer is better than sleep", which is contained within the Fajr call to prayer.

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from Sounds of the Year 2019, released December 14, 2019

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Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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