He tilts his head, left and right, checking where the shadows fall.

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On the street, mopeds clatter past and children wave from the backs of pick-up trucks, while in the fields beyond the village, evening shadows fall across the rice paddies and rubber trees.

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The door opens slowly and the girls, or what looks like shadows of the girls, drift out, fall out, into the hallway.

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Yet the show does not peak until shadows fall and Gnawa musicians start playing their metal qarqaba (castanets), duff (hand drums) and twanging three-stringed ginbri (bass).

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