BERAUER, J. / BYRNE, C. / DATTA, S.: King of Ghosts (Film Score) [Datta, Byrne, City of London Sinfonia, B. Barclay]

One of the biggest new music talents in Britain’ (Vogue), sarod maestro Soumik Datta performs his original score to the 1968 Satyajit Ray film, King of Ghosts, on Globe Music, the new record label from Shakespeare’s Globe. Audiences around the world have marvelled at this explosive, rollicking film score, played by orchestras from Singapore to Edinburgh. The project finally arrived in the Globe’s candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the Globe’s Festival of Independence. Featured on this recording are the City of London Sinfonia and Iris percussionist Cormac Byrne, as well as conductor Bill Barclay, the Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe. The result is a unique melange of global influences from Bollywood scores, contemporary orchestral music, Celtic percussion and British Indian song craft, fused together into a toe-tapping, pitch-bending, ecstatic hour of vibrant new instrumental music.