Dhaka is known as the city of Mosques, around 5am every morning the call to prayer begins. I went up onto the roof to listen and try to record, on my noisy camera, the amazing song and the way the calls sound as though they are in 'layers'.
In the dark the sound seems to move across the city, as if carried by the breeze, in waves. The songs weave between each other, some close, some far away, making multiple layers of sound at different densities. Crows 'kha', birds start to call, vehicles move past in the street below, the horns of cars and trucks as people wake. There is the sound of a train as it departs from the other side of the city.
Listen to the recording here: Call to prayer across Dhaka.
