Samarkand, 1869

[@UniversalAmbients]

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[@haruspexambience]

i can hear the ghosts of the silk road. Wonderful ambience

[@sedrickblake1017]

this is lowkey a beautiful comment

[@dalleguy]

This is the sound! Now, all I want is a point-and-click PC game that takes us through the entire story of this era, from the perspective of a merchant-adventurer on his travels, encountering key figures and influential people along the way.

[@samw1501]

Now *I* want a point-and-click PC game that takes us through the entire story of this era, from the perspective of a merchant-adventurer on his travels, encountering key figures and influential people along the way.

[@lucasm7569]

Look for a game called King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride. It's a point click from 1994, incredible and with the same vibe

[@dalleguy]

​@@lucasm7569 Yes! I've played 1 - 7 and even some related KQ games. But, this is the franchise that got me started on the point-click genre.

[@TalykStudios]

If Silkroad Online didn't get eaten alive by greedy Joymax 🥲

[@KrishDewani-l4t]

@@lucasm7569 damn unc 1994

[@RashFever26]

Praise the Algorithm, another great recommendation

[@mikehev222]

🙏 PRAISE THE ALGORITHM 🙏

[@lucasm7569]

Alhamdulillah

[@brunomozart6754]

Praise the Algorithm

[@L_emurio]

PRAISE THE ALGORITHM 🙏🏻

[@Sorenquist]

الحمد للخوارزمية

[@dxn_only]

Pretty sick piece of music that defo transmits the local vibes. Hails from Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[@sagapoetic8990]

I worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in an Uzbek village -- finally! The algorithm is useful. Shah-i-Zinda is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

[@LauraGYoung]

UZ-10 here. I agree! :)

[@arsalanzare1560]

What is shah è zende?

[@LauraGYoung]

@ It is this place: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah-i-Zinda

[@RasulovaShahribonu]

hello from Samarkand

[@thegoldenboah3343]

what do you think bout this culture insulting trash video

[@RasulovaShahribonu]

@@thegoldenboah3343 That this song doesn't really fit the description of Samarkand but I don't feel insulted, and i think you don't need to be so rude and disrespectful 😌

[@thegoldenboah3343]

@@RasulovaShahribonu great well keep thinking

[@burakahmettr8193]

hi are you uzbek

[@RasulovaShahribonu]

@@burakahmettr8193 yes

[@faroukmhamdi6782]

I don’t why i feel nostalgic for samarkand when i saw this picture like if i was there

[@jojoanggono3229]

In the past subconciously you had been imagining you were there. So this very picture conjures up the vague memory.

[@LeFantômedelOpéras]

In the heart of time, Silk roads weave through golden sands, Echoes of the past. Minarets reach sky, Ancient whispers of the night, Stars over deep blue. Market stalls alive, Spices dance, rich tales unfold, Persia's pulse beats strong.

[@fernaldpaperguest4646]

I am very fascinated by Samarkand and definitely plan to visit it someday in the future. Thank you for a wonderful piece of music.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

This is right after the Siege of Samarkand where the Russians won and completed their victory over the Emirate of Bukhara? I remember reading about it in the fantastic book 'Great Game' by Peter Hopkirk. Wish someone made a movie about ANY of this Russian colonisation campaign, too many people falsely believe russia was some anti-colonial angel, but they colonised huge swathes of asia. I really love the melancholic tone of this piece. It's like the silence after the storm has settled, the city somewhat emptied, and people come to accept that their way of life has changed

[@gabriel.holanda777]

Thanks for the historical dump! Good to know. As the process of growth of any empire, I can imagine how this process happened. And like you said, the ambient tells this feeling in a rightfully way. I know that when the spanish have come to South América, some civilizacional, like the Mayans, have already been living there for 3000 years. The point is that we often forget how the end of the world isn't something that will happen in the futuro, but something that already happens everyday, even today. I live in Brazil and the sistematic killing of indigenous people, as well as the extinctions of theirs existence is something that happens even during our times. As a famous indigenous philosopher of our tine, Ailton Krenak says: "It's not a question id the indigenous people of our country will be extinct, its a matter of When."

[@gabriel.holanda777]

Sorry for the typos, my autocorrect is set to portuguese-brazilian. I hope you can still understand :]

[@bogdan449]

Such a great book!

[@Fazzrito]

Russia was an Empire, and unlike Asia, it did not use the occupied territories as slaves. The occupied territories became a full-fledged part of the empire, and not what Western Europe did - drove slaves and siphoned off resources. You can study the history by at least 5% and see the scale of what actually happened. Before the expansion of the empire, Russia was under the yoke of the same Turkic peoples for 300 years, including current Uzbekistan who plundered and burned down entire cities in Rus. Therefore, it is not necessary to talk about colonialism. Colonialism is what the whole of Western Europe, led by Britain and then the United States, was doing.

[@gabriel.holanda777]

@@Fazzrito Thanks for the statementes, they were extremely useful! I will study more in the topic to educate myself. 😊 For now I believe in you ans have to say that in fact if it was made this way then I'm proud for the russian expansionism being soo diferente and more humane from the commom colonialists practices from the rest of the Europe!

[@AzziSenpai]

I clicked on this because I read a book when I was a kid called the amulet of samarkand and I liked it.

[@sarvar8795]

my lovely Uzbekistan!

[@elias4640]

are you the guy who does 3D? you recently 3d modelled some of the soviet architecture here at tashkent right?

[@sarvar8795]

@@elias4640 No, i did not model any architecture

[@clivejungle6999]

That golden window of time when the remains of the ancient and medieval worlds were still extant crumbling ruins, before modernity got into full wing and cleared everything away in the name of progress.

[@ValleysOfRain]

Not quite. In the medieval period it was often popular to use ancient ruins as raw material sources. This is why the Great Pyramid of Giza no longer has its limestone casing stones - thousands of years, it had been stripped of its limestone for building material in nearby Cairo - including to build some of the famous 13th century mosques in the city. Arguably we have more respect for historical monuments and artefacts today than we did in the centuries preceding.

[@Lipinki.luzyckie]

Yeah, abandoned ruins in the middle of the desert could sit there untouched for ages and still are, because no one lives there, but old cities like Rome (or Samarkand!) are living things of layers upon layers tightly stacked and material re-used, only now actually it's a problem when there are some old bricks in the place you want your plumbing to go. In the olden days they would just threw the bricks the fuck out, they didn't have a concept of archeological site lmao

[@jamespires3383]

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[@nullifye7816]

i think he means with the sites still somewhat integrated into the current life of the people then, but where that life was no longer vibrant enough to cause the old ruins to be cannibalised.

[@captainpancake8177]

lmao not true at all

[@muskatmusic3927]

Unobtrusively sets the tone in the space and sets you up for work. Thanks 👍

[@WibblyWobblyTime]

Sarmakand, 1869. Definitely grabbed my attention. I feel there's something eternal to be felt here.

[@absentiaaaaa]

I cannot believe how happy i am to hear this. I was welcomed to your ambient stuff by the Baltic sea ambient, and fell in love. Then i searched for something from Uzbekistan, because this is a special place for me, especially Samarkand and Bukhara. My father used to take me for trips in this magical country. I don't remember a lot, but this music... I somehow feel my early childhood

[@nataliiaboiko2102]

Blissful. I close my eyes and feel the sand on my skin, a wind blowing through Bibi-Khanym as I watch the sun setting above it. Thanks

[@compasscrafting1147]

The work of art is named Mausoleum of Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand. Go ahead and look up Vasily Vereshchagin and lament at how little has changed in 150 years. Hope, in vain, for the peace he too hoped for.

[@christophersatkowski8548]

The Silk Road, such tranquility.

[@orlandoacontreras]

Greetings from Venezuela, South America. 🇻🇪👋

[@Edamame417]

This is hauntingly beautiful. Like I'm looking across the steppe at sunrise.

[@kartalsberg]

my ancestor's ruins. i really want to witness their life at that time period. the sound is very familiar to me. like i heard this way before.

[@mariemyndala]

So beautiful

[@bladeballad]

Thanks for the inspo, was looking to work on some kind of ancient desert settlement

[@arielshalev6800]

Painting looks real, kudos to Vasily Vereschagin!

[@syedraidarsalan4685]

Very good stuff. Your channel's been one of my best finds this year.

[@goorgev]

You are a gift... !! Thanks for putting it out..!!

[@AndreGibsonBeatbox]

This makes me miss Silkroad Online. Amazing game, miss it! Anyone else here ever play that game?

[@anandsukumaran715]

All hail the great lord Algo! You, kind soul, have just got another subscriber. Brilliant work

[@FrostTrollzor]

Reading Calvino's Invisible Cities with this score playing in the background is a transcedental experience.

[@adrianpatino3030]

Me recordó mucho a Tannhauser de Wagner. Con una lágrima, llena de tristeza y melancolía, te doy las gracias por hacer éstos sonido tan bellos con los cuáles he encontrado refugio.

[@orlandoacontreras]

¿De qué país eres?

[@adrianpatino3030]

​@@orlandoacontreras México 🇲🇽

[@benimoo7894]

in a world where most of the new ambient msuic channels are ai generated, this channel is a breathe of fresh air.. thanks universal ambients! you just earned a subscribe!!1 keep it up!!1

[@Floflox]

How do you know this one is not AI generated ?

[@benimoo7894]

@@Floflox the creator literally says in the description..yeah i check my sources before stating the facts :)

[@gheist966]

@@benimoo7894 it just says "made by me", it doesnt say anywhere its not AI. even in their patron it doesnt say anything about it being AI or not. what other sources do you have?

[@mediareport539]

@@benimoo7894 Since the phrasing is unclear, why don't we ask Universal Ambients directly? Hey, Universal Ambients: did you create this video using AI? Ok, benimoo7894? Let's see what the reply is.

[@FransickSFERRA]

Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин (14 (26) октября 1842, Череповец - 31 марта (13 апреля) 1904, Порт-Артур) - русский живописец, писатель, один из самых известных баталистов второй половины XIX века. Мавзолей Шах-и-Зинда в Самарканде. 1869-1870. Холст, масло. 26,8 × 36,6. Среда, 09.10.2024.

[@tsumugikotobuki0131]

1869 would have been when the Great Game was ongoing. Many British and Russian travelers visited these regions, before Russia conquered most of Central Asia in the late 19th century.

[@shah_fil]

The Russians had already taken Samarqand by 1868.

[@reidthompson7900]

This is beautiful, I am very impressed. Keep it up!

[@TNT-Belajar-Audio]

the image is so peaceful

[@ultimagus8086]

Bro this is so peaceful. I'm at eleven minutes and this has me feeling relaxed.

[@onnoysaad1697]

thanks for introducing me properly to Vasily Vereshchagin .

[@Super-lucky-7777]

Love you for making this

[@QuetzalcoatlAeneas]

I don't understand why, but this music makes me feel very good.

[@S24KP6]

For those that don't know, Samarkand is an actual city !

[@SantiagoLeungPrime]

Thank you for this. Made my study easier

[@altoncoleman547]

lovely work, thank you

[@lynXx75]

this image of the past and this music of the present give me the impression of being in the distant future

[@SagdiyevBorattt]

Beautiful.

[@Elkevakeda]

heavy S.T.A.L.K.E.R. vibes with this one, loved it

[@MySleepingQuarters]

spot on! i didn't think about this, but you are correct. maybe i will finally finish stalker 1..it's so hard though haha

[@samutracio]

Samarkanda is magic

[@tarnidshed]

just found out your channel, what a incredible piece of sound, going to use it on my rpg sessions, love from Brazil!

[@johnbelushi5000]

Really good shit, keeping me focused during work but also got me in my feels

[@dumbtiuser]

clicked on this video since it looked 'interesting' and apparently I have been playing this video for 48 minutes straight...I swear I've never seen this before

[@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau]

This is really calming. Thank you!

[@mi65399]

Come to visit this beautiful, ancient city of UZBEKISTAN! It is fascinating!

[@somerandomrpgenthusiast8451]

Vereshchagin has some great artwork.

[@itsdeanbanks548]

This is beautiful

[@teelesynclair5902]

This has a ghostly feel to it, very beautiful though. I'm fascinated by central Asia, my mum's family is from Tuva, which is like 2000+ miles away but still central Asian.

[@Rinana2004-hz1pp]

I love what you do

[@pentherapy]

What an atmosphere...

[@Nordland00]

Feels like I’m wandering in Limgrave.

[@Turanid.209]

Ulu Türk diyarı ata toprağım. Timur'un gözbebeği. Türkiye'den selam olsun sana. Hep mutlu ve özgür olasın. 🩵

[@brankelly1921]

Ancient vibes. Thanks so much

[@Alien_Can97]

The fight is over. We lost…..now we rest.

[@RekishiRecaps]

good playlist to read duna the book

[@qagy1966]

Beautiful. ☮️

[@LordTravisBruh]

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

[@peterlee6391]

From a French philosopher. Very nice.

[@teelesynclair5902]

Unfortunately, I wish people would realise this more

[@Nini-sv1bd]

Когда ты смотришь на жизнь в целом под призму этой музыки, все неудачи и поражения кажутся бессмысленными

[@lofi_Insomnia_]

Love it, my friend

[@파버카스텔]

here to compose myself

[@exionee3047]

I hope you will create more great ambients !!! Cheers!!

[@ыыы-и5ю]

That's just feels good.

[@lucaspavin3755]

greetings from São Paulo, Brasil

[@arsalanzare1560]

How can it be so impressive❤

[@user-md8yn6sn5c]

So good. I need it at Spotify, please

[@paul.newsy.lalonde]

Good work.

[@GonzoMFahri]

i know a guy who has "asmarakandi" as his family name, and i believe his ancestors are from samarkand!

[@ufopiloot7553]

Love it it

[@nw82534]

Visited Samarkand in 2012. My aunt was generous enough to take me on a trip after college. I had never been anywhere before, but now found myself in Uzbekistan. Wandering the city, I was led by some local kids to a nearby shop to eat. The food was admittedly terrible, but the people were welcoming and gracious. My aunt died a little over a year ago, killed by a drunk driver while she was visiting her sister. Coming across this video made me think of her, and that time we got to spend together on this little section of the Silk Road. RIP Aunt Jena

[@federicouliseslopez406]

This is beautiful. Thanks.

[@cominforyachips]

This art piece reminds me of the video game Sable.

[@NeopToIemy]

Sable was so good

[@compilererror2836]

Finally, some good background music made without AI.

[@tavasoli]

Love this

[@mariodiluca8089]

Good Stuff! Thanks!

[@Flyspray420]

Nice! Love the artwork! wondering where I could see more? or who did it?

[@Game_Hero]

look at the description

[@MechanizedWerewolf]

This is great.

[@marianbebec1256]

Yes.

[@peregrinofab]

Thanks

[@TalykStudios]

Fond memories of Silkroad Online 😅😭

[@Kazakbay]

In our past, Samarkand was a kazakh city, captured by Kazakh Khanate, by Esim Khan, and this city was kazakh from 1613 to 1718 year.

[@kartalsberg]

it doesn't matter kazakh-uzbek-turkmen-turkish at the end of the day all of us turkic, maybe we differ but but the other nations think we are the same.

[@Kazakbay]

@@kartalsberg you are right

[@ElamiteMan]

Samarkand Always Was a Persian City !!!

[@Kazakbay]

@@ElamiteMan never

[@ElamiteMan]

@@Kazakbay Never?😃 Samarkand Founded By Iranian Sogdians Samarkand itself has Iranian Name Samarkand is Birthplace Of Many Iranian Scientist, Poet, Philosopher and... All Buildings in Samarkand are Iranian architecture Even in the Kazakh language, a word for the city has not been invented and still uses Persian and Iranian words !!! Kent , Kend , Sarai ,Saray , Kala , Abad , Abat , Shaher and etc...

[@temper8281]

Love it

[@benzo522]

really nice

[@ambergris1996]

I love Samarkand...

[@ismailkadiri5326]

amazing

[@Saniolini]

Джуда яхши!)

[@silenthillambience]

vibes!

[@JK-vc7ie]

awesome

[@Aditya-f8t5z]

What's in Samarkand, why does it keep coming to me again and again.....🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@aleshkaemelyanov]

*** . Давай переждём непогоду, обернувшись в друг друга, и новому счастью в угоду не выйдем из этого круга. От мира давай отчеркнёмся, зашторим от мира глаза и в нежные узы совьёмся, забыв, что такое гроза. Пусть нега проглотит обоих, любовная кома иль сон. Как мира лихие изгои, не выйдем с постелевых лон. Давай украдёмся у мира, витая в пуховом гнезде, сыграем на ласковой лире в порочной, святой наготе, и, перельясь в поцелуях, изменим все смеси, края, милуясь, любовью пируя, до стонов все речи сведя. Наутро остывшие кружки, уставшие губы, лучи и смятая меха опушка, улыбки и слёзы свечи...

[@martinaraka4614]

put me in a trance!!!

[@Archentose]

Do you have a page on Bandcamp? Would love to support you.

[@Augustusgloop1994]

Will you upload this to Spotify?