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The Manganiyar Seduction is a live album and stage extravaganza, conceived and directed by Roysten Abel, featuring Rajasthani folk and Sufi music, with over 40 musicians from the Manganiyar community of western India. From obscure villages around Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and Barmer in western Rajasthan, comes a musical tradition that has digested and belted out melodies from everywhere between Persia and the Punjab for several centuries.

This is the music of The Manganiyars: a community of Muslim court musicians whose royal patrons may have disappeared because of
circumstances of history, but whose music lives because its practitioners cannot live without it.

The Manganiyars, as the roots of the name suggests, asked for alms in lieu of entertainment, performing at marriages,deaths and births: something they continue doing today. They converted to Islam some 400 years ago, an event that only enriched the already entrenched folk tradition of Rajasthan and Sindh with the import of words and tunes and instruments

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