Tashkent, Yangiobad flea market

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

This recording was made in the midst of my migration from Russia to Uzbekistan, through Kazakhstan.
At this moment, I have been in a position of forced exile for a little over a month. If I were to describe my condition, the words would be shock, depression and complete confusion. But at the same time there is hope for the best.
The recording was made at probably the main flea market in all of Uzbekistan, Yangiobad. Together with my friends from the Ask Sado emergency residence for Siberian sound artists, I went to the flea market, on the one hand as an excursion, and on the other with a very specific goal - to buy various little things necessary for everyday life for the residence.
By this day, the grip of my depression is becoming less strong and I experience a mass of impressions that excite me in the most positive way. On this recording, as well as on the other two recorded at this flea market, you can hear a colorful hum - the polyphony of the market, the voices of inviting sellers are heard from all sides, you can hear people bargaining, music appears and dissolves, etc. | Vladimir Bocharov
Recorded by Vladimir Bocharov.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
IMAGE: Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons