‘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 Irish 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.

‘Traditionally you have to work within certain parameters within Indian classical music, it binds you to a certain style. But the rebel inside me said, ‘What about all this other stuff that’s in there too?’ It feels like an extraordinary feat because there’s not been another album like it. This is not chilled out lounge music. It is an anti-chill-out album with edge.’ - Soumik Datta

‘Vanguard of British Asian music’ - BBC3

‘A celebration of artistic fusion between UK and India’ - Independent

Tracklisting:
1. The Chase
2. Competition Song
3. Interlude
4. Traveling
5. Stop the War Pt I
6. Morning Song
7. Ghost Dance
8. Boons
9. Freeze
10. Borfi’s Lab
11. Meeting in the Woods
12. Stop the War Pt II
13. Encore
14. Brothers
15. The King’s Story