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The audience was insatiable and after the artists had left the stage they had to come back with insistent demands for an encore.

Eva Stone and Nicki Wells sang, in Nitin’s words, ‘the cheerful Dead Man’, followed by the finale. Nitin on guitar and Aref on tabla brought the house down. Interestingly Nitin played the guitar in a manner I have seldom seen playedmaking it sound like a sitar.

at the heart strings with the loss of one’s land and then sublimated the experience into one of transcending geographic borders. There was Immigrants, Broken Skin, and a piece inspired by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s kawwalis. A piece based on kathak and an Urdu ghazal by Nicki Wells completed the proceedings.

The innovative addition of spoken word, films clips, historic speeches, sounds of nature, even elements of tukda, made it all wonderfully enjoyable.

It was a treat also to listen to Sawhney as he opened up about the creative process behind each number, giving us an insight into his award-winning music. Nitin Sawhney made every second at the Festival Centre worthwhile.