After Sarah Rodgers’s The Roaring Whirl launch event, everyone’s talking about this exciting cross-cultural release! Planet Hugill The work gives a number of ways in for people. It tells the Kim story, the relationship between Kim and the Lama which is essentially a journey, and about friendship. Sarah finds Kipling’s book interesting because there is so little […]

The Roaring Whirl is a musical journey across the North Indian Punjab – the setting for Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’. The work was originally commissioned by clarinetist Geraldine Allen as a piece to take on tour, and she approached composer Sarah Rodgers for a piece that would cross continents, genres and styles. After the first performance […]

Métier Records, the contemporary-music arm of Divine Art Recordings Group, is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of a superb work of cross-cultural interest based on the world of Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim”, tracing a journey across the Punjab of North India. The recording was actually made in the early 1990s shortly after the premiere but […]

THE ROARING WHIRL – SARAH RODGERS (Métier MSV 28592) A cross-cultural music-narrative set in the North Indian Punjab of Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Launch Event Details When: Wednesday 18 September, 2019 12:00 to 2.00pm Where: The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, 26 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6BT A partnership between the Divine Art Recordings Group […]

Uniquely intriguing. The effect on the listener is immediate and pleasing. Kipling’s words are expertly narrated by Bhasker Patel. Rodgers’s music, which makes space for improvisation, is harmonically about the same as Holst, and the sitar sits comfortably beside the fairly basic but colorful clarinet and guitar parts. In essence The Roaring Whirl is accessible and appealing.

EDITOR’S CHOICE CD: This CD represents a triumph. An Indian-inspired soundscape redolent of exotica, meditation and romantic adventure – this makes the listening experience a pleasure.

The musicality is superb and the interest level never drops. The standout participant for me was the narrator Bhasker Patel, whose reading truly brings the words to life and carries you off to the dusty plains and high mountains of northern India.