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The Manganiyar Seduction by Roysten Abel - I was blown away by this performance as I've never experienced anything quite like it. It was performed in a very crowded Siam tent at the WOMAD festival last night. The performance featured 40 Sufi singers and musicians from the Rajasthani desert. The musicians were seated on a four-storey structure which comprised of thirty-three individual curtained compartments, each surrounded by lights. As the show unfolds, not only do more compartments become visible, but the lights turn on and off in sequence. A conductor (Daevo Khan) also appears, facing the troupe with his back to the audience and playing the Kharthal (a clicking hand instrument similar to Spanish castanets)

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