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Robert Plant’s new album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, will be released September 9 on Nonesuch / Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Plant, the album is his label debut and features 11 new recordings, nine of which are original songs written by Plant with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters—Justin Adams: bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals; John Baggott: keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals; Juldeh Camara: kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals; Billy Fuller: bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass; Dave Smith: drum set; and Liam “Skin” Tyson: banjo, guitar, background vocals.

lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is Plant’s first record since 2010’s Band of Joy, which followed 2007’s six-time Grammy Award–winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand. Justin Adams and John Baggott of The Sensational Space Shifters appeared on Plant’s 2002 release Dreamland, while all but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s Mighty Rearranger. The new-album line-up recently toured the world before recording lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath, UK. “Rainbow” was recorded in Contino Rooms in London. Tchad Blake mixed all but three tracks on the album.

“It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” Plant says.

“The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood. I am very lucky to work with The Sensational Space Shifters. They come from exciting areas of contemporary music…I have been around awhile and I ask myself, do I have anything to say? Is there a song still inside me? In my heart? I see life and what’s happening to me. Along the trail there are expectations, disappointments, happiness, questions and strong relationships,” Plant explains, “….and now I’m able to express my feelings through melody, power and trance; together in a kaleidescope of sound, colour , and friendship.”

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10. Up On The Hollow Hill
11. Arbaden (Maggie’s Babby)

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Brief mention in a lengthy article from The UK Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/hei-fi/ent ... 35675.html

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With the second Band of Joy album due for release next year, it's down to the Space Shifters to keep Plant testing his boundaries as a solo artist. "So long as it feels good, that's what matters, really. I'm not trying to break the bank and I'm certainly not trying to play Wembley Stadium," he laughs, adding quietly, almost matter-of-fact, "though I do know how to do that."

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Brief mention in this article from New Zealand:

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Robert Plant: Winding on down the road
02.8.2013
On the eve of a New Zealand tour, former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant talks to Russell Baillie.

“Come on!” shouts Robert Plant a few seconds after he’s come to the phone. He’s calling to Arthur, his “once and future dog”, out the back door of his country home at Machynlleth, near the Welsh border.

No, Arthur isn’t, as Led Zeppelin fans might find amusing, a black dog. Though Machynlleth isn’t far from Bron-Yr-Aur, the Welsh cottage where he and Jimmy Page wrote some of the pastoral folky tunes – including Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp – which appeared on 1970′s Led Zeppelin III.

No, Arthur’s a lurcher and Plant would rather he was inside, out of the cold, as he talks to TimeOut about his forthcoming tour, which brings him back to New Zealand for the first time in 30 years.

He claims he can’t remember Led Zeppelin’s visit here in 1972. But he does recall the excursion he made post the break-up of the band, early on in what’s been an often haphazard solo career but which, of late, has proved him a rare restless spirit among Britrock’s elder statesmen.

“I had a hit called Big Log in 1982 and I played the raceway in Auckland and it was very, very funny because it was full of Hell’s Angels singing a ballad about stolen romance. Great big f***ing guys. It was bit of a brouhaha, really.”

This time Plant heads here, not as the 20-something golden god who was the definition of the leonine 70s rock frontman, but as the 64-year-old who has spent much of the past decade following various musical muses.

There’s been Raising Sand, the big-selling Grammy-winning Americana excursion with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. There’s been his genre-bending World music-plus albums and tours with groups the Band of Joy and the Sensational Space Shifters (the group he brings to Auckland in April).

And, of course, there has been his brief return to being the howling voice of Led Zeppelin.

The band played a one-off highly acclaimed reunion show – with Jason Bonham taking over the drums from his father John, whose death in 1980 finished the band – in 2007 at London’s O2 Arena.

The show, its tickets sold by lottery, was ostensibly a tribute to their old Atlantic Records boss, Ahmet Ertegun. The resulting Celebration Day concert film and album finally emerged late last year, meaning Plant, Page and John Paul Jones were back in the spotlight – with Plant remaining the hold-out against what could undoubtedly be lucrative further reunion shows.

“It was good what we did and it felt okay, you know?” says Plant, patiently explaining once more why he’s not entertaining any further last blasts for Led Zeppelin.

“Did you ever see that film Grumpy Old Men? It can be like that when you have done something together and you stopped doing it when you were 32 and then half a lifetime goes by and you do a few things in between. The expectation and the media wind-up is what it is. So every time you say hello to one another the pundits are at it.

“So that bit of it is quite tedious but of course it is to be expected. But we had a good time. We played well that night. That was a fantastic thing to be able to do to, play that well and only do one gig. So it was all or nothing.”

So after that show Plant went back to touring with Krauss, then eventually back into the studio with his Band of Joy cohorts for their 2010 self-titled album.

Plant, it seems, is a man who would rather get on with the next thing that excites him than cash in on his past.

Though online set lists of his recent touring with the Sensational Space Shifters show that Led Zep songs, like Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog, and Rock and Roll, still constitute about half his shows, albeit played by a seven-piece band which features one-stringed African violins, African banjos and the like among the usual rock band instrumentation. But he’s not being a World music cover band of himself.

“The difference is about 300mph,” he says. “This is powerful trance-driven music centred on loops and West African rhythms, which are not some sedate prog-music excursion. It’s like a sort of West African juggernaut where Led Zeppelin finally go on holiday to Africa.”

And if a Led Zep fan came along just wanting to hear Stairway to Heaven?

“It will be as exciting as you want it to be. But one thing is for sure, it is relentless and it won’t be polite.”

Plant was reunited again briefly with his Led Zeppelin colleagues when they received Kennedy Center honours late last year from President Obama. Something for the Machynlleth mantelpiece with the Grammys and his 2009 Commander of the British Empire?

“My kids just wanted to have a look in the house and a look at the decorations.” he laughs about his excursion to Buckingham Palace. “I got stuck in the line with some postmasters from the Isle of Skye and they were in the gallery checking everybody out.”

But as for the current and former residents of the White House, “that’s a whole other world of appreciation for the arts – people are much more clued in … Bill Clinton did a 15-minute oration of black Mississippi blues travelling through Chicago and stuff to invest Buddy Guy. These guys are switched on, they are cool, they are very funny on that level they got it covered. It’s slightly different to Buckingham Palace.”

But if he has an increasingly official number of laurels to rest on, Plant prefers to stay moving. There’s another Band of Joy album on the way this year, which will again feature the supporting voice of his partner, Texas singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, whom he was reported to have married.”No I didn’t … I like being a little bit silly.”

As for musical marriages, Plant remains an enthusiastic international polygamist.

“I have always kept relationships with other generations of musicians who really mean what they are doing. Not flowery stuff. I am not at all interested in the confetti of popular music that much, but there are good tunes everywhere. You wouldn’t be talking to me if I wasn’t partly responsible for a lot of good tunes along the line and what I am doing now is putting them through the grinder and they are spitting out in a particular way.

“I’ve just played through Latin America for five weeks and I experienced amazing moments I would never have expected and the kind of Latino mix of German, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Aztec, Inca … whatever it is, their response to rhythm is amazing. An amazing melding of temperament and personality, it was great.

“You ain’t going to get that by walking the Welsh Mountains. You might find Arthur but you won’t get that great collision.”

Who: Robert Plant, the former voice of Led Zeppelin
What: The Sensational Space Shifters
When: Wellington’s TSB Bank Arena, Tuesday April 9; Vector Arena, Auckland, Thursday April 11

- TimeOut

By Russell Baillie

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment ... d=10863791

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Robert Plant has posted an update on the status of a new album with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters.

Plant shared an update via Facebook, writing, “Sensational Space Shifters album..lost for words. Almost complete..”

The Led Zeppelin singer is reportedly working on the project at Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Studios in southwestern England.

After touring the American-based “Band Of Joy” project, Plant was drawn back to classic blues and world music.

“I have had an amazing education the last few years,” Plant told LA Weekly this summer. “The time I spent around all of those men and women was an eye-opening experience. The thing about working with musicians in Nashville is that they generally are always moving on to the next thing. [Plant's partner and singer-songwriter] Patty [Griffin] went to work on her solo record and [guitarist] Buddy [Miller] went to produce the Carolina Chocolate Drops.”

“I decided that I wanted to get back to something resembling a ‘British condition’”, he continued. “I looked back at the Strange Sensation lineup I had worked with before Band of Joy. I called up [bassist] Justin Adams, who had just gotten done touring with JuJu. We decided to get together to try something out. It just had such a strange and unusual way about it. We brought in a musician from West Africa [Juldeh Camara], who had already been playing in the U.K...but then we stick in my voice and bring in [keyboardist] John [Baggott] from Massive Attack with his insanely powerful drum loops and crashing, crunched up sounds.”

“We've got a new drummer [Dave Smith], a real good young kid who is big on the jazz scene here [in the U.K.],” said Plant. “It's proven to be a great passport for fun and power. I'm able to get the ‘R.P.’ voice back out there again. I don't have to be so concerned about making sure I am in harmony with anyone else since I'm mostly singing alone this time. I won't have to worry about Patty glaring at me when I fuck up this time!”

Plant toured through 2013 with the Sensational Space Shifters; the group wrapped up their live dates in October with an appearance at Bluesfest London.

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Led Zeppelin fans may be bummed by the fact that another reunion of the group remains an extremely distant possibility, but they can take solace in the news that Robert Plant recently wrapped up work on his first solo LP since 2010's Band of Joy. The disc (which has yet to be titled) was largely recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios and hits stores on September 9th. “It’s really a celebratory record, but it’s very crunchy and gritty, very West African and very Massive Attack-y,” Plant says. “There’s a lot of bottom end, so it might sound all right at a Jamaican party, but I’m not sure it would sound all right on NPR."

Many of the musicians on the disc played with Plant on his 2005 LP Mighty ReArranger, including keyboardist John Baggott, bassist Billy Fuller and guitarist Justin Adams, who has previously worked with Jah Wobble. (Contrary to a story in our print issue, Wobble himself isn't on the disc. We regret the error.) "I've also got this Fulani guy from Gambia [Juldeh Camara] playing one-string ritti," says Plant. "And I'm singing and wailing on top of everything."

Plant will be on the road with the Sensational Space Shifters throughout much of the summer and his future plans are unclear, though he has been talking with Alison Krauss about recording a follow-up to their 2007 disc Raising Sand. "Alison called me six weeks ago," he says. "She said, 'Should we make a new record?'"

Plant was stunned by her initial idea for the project. "She keeps saying, 'Now we've got to do it like Daft Punk,'" says Plant. "I said, 'Alison, get a clue. We've got great voices. We need to be getting ourselves around some really pretty songs if we sing together.' And Daft Punk? We can go out for dinner with Nile Rodgers, but that's about it."

This won't be the first attempt to record a Raising Sand follow-up. After they wrapped up their tour in 2009, Plant entered a California studio with producer Daniel Lanois and attempted to write material he could sing with Krauss. "We walked away from that and took our toys back," says Plant. "Dan and I wrote about five songs in two or three days up in Silver Lake. They were pretty good, but they didn't really lend themselves to a vocal collaboration, so I took them away. And then Alison went back to the fat guys with beards [her longtime band Union Station] and she made a pretty good record within that genre."

Many fans were surprised that Plant opted to work with Lanois on the (ultimately discarded) album instead of T-Bone Burnett, the producer and guitarist of Raising Sand. "I remember that guy," says Plant, with more than a touch of sarcasm. "He's very elusive and incredibly hard to find. I love him desperately. He's an allure to himself, and for that reason he has his own record label. He's also a very tall guy. I think we have to do 12 rounds in the boxing ring first."

Does that mean Burnett won't produce the possible next Plant/Krauss album? "I don't know," says Plant. "I don't think it would be a bad idea. We're all crazy. We can't have long memories about things that we didn't think were quite right or wrong. It's live and let live."

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Robert Plant’s new album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, will be released September 9 on Nonesuch / Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Plant, the album is his label debut and features 11 new recordings, nine of which are original songs written by Plant with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters—Justin Adams: bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals; John Baggott: keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals; Juldeh Camara: kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals; Billy Fuller: bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass; Dave Smith: drum set; and Liam “Skin” Tyson: banjo, guitar, background vocals.

Pre-orders are available now by clicking here and include a limited-edition print and an instant download of an album track.

lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is Plant’s first record since 2010’s Band of Joy, which followed 2007’s six-time Grammy Award–winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand. Justin Adams and John Baggott of The Sensational Space Shifters appeared on Plant’s 2002 release Dreamland, while all but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s Mighty Rearranger. The new-album line-up recently toured the world before recording lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath, UK. “Rainbow” was recorded in Contino Rooms in London. Tchad Blake mixed all but three tracks on the album.

“It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” Plant says.

“The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood. I am very lucky to work with The Sensational Space Shifters. They come from exciting areas of contemporary music…I have been around awhile and I ask myself, do I have anything to say? Is there a song still inside me? In my heart? I see life and what’s happening to me. Along the trail there are expectations, disappointments, happiness, questions and strong relationships,” Plant explains, “….and now I’m able to express my feelings through melody, power and trance; together in a kaleidescope of sound, colour , and friendship.”


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Wow, I like this a lot!



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The entire album is streaming at NPR.

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read all those great and glowing reviews........i don't know hw3ich album the reviewers were listening to, but i doubt if it was the same one i got.

2 bad albums i bought in a row (counting crows) and upon second listen it didn't get any better. just terrible, almost unlistenaable noise in some places.

lucinda williams and jackson browne coming in couple of weeks, i sure as hell hope they can do better.

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I've got all of his solo stuff (except for the new one) and I love a good chunk of it. He had a few down years around the time of Manic Nirvana, but ever since Dreamland in 2002 he's been on an incredible roll. He may not be able to hit the high notes like he used to (he actually lost some of that range while Zeppelin was still together) but I think he's become a better all-around singer in the last dozen or so years...and he's surrounding himself with inspiring musicians. I can understand why some people don't like his post-Zeppelin material but I'm not one of them. Very eager to hear the new one and hoping to get it on vinyl.

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I'm actually the opposite; I prefer a few songs from the first 2 or 3.

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Don't get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE his first few solo albums, and those are still my go-to Plant records, but I think he's made some of the most interesting music of his career in the last 10-12 years.

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I was a massive Plant solo fan through Fate Of Nations in 1993.

Dreamland was hit and miss but I did like Mighty Rearranger.

I loathed his easy listening ventures with Alison Krauss and the Band Of Joy album and he continues making "old man music" with this latest snooze fest.

The fact that he ignores and acts embarrassed by those wonderful first 2 albums irritates me to no end.

Plant can be rather pretentious almost like he's telling me to expand my musical horizons because I don't have any idea of the wonderful music from North Africa and Egypt and Guam and Greenland and Mars and wherever the hell else he goes.

I tried listening to this new one, but yet again it's another I won't be buying.

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Manic Nirvana is my favorite Plant album, and lullaby… is a close second.


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I was a massive Plant solo fan through Fate Of Nations in 1993.

Dreamland was hit and miss but I did like Mighty Rearranger.

I loathed his easy listening ventures with Alison Krauss and the Band Of Joy album and he continues making "old man music" with this latest snooze fest.

The fact that he ignores and acts embarrassed by those wonderful first 2 albums irritates me to no end.

Plant can be rather pretentious almost like he's telling me to expand my musical horizons because I don't have any idea of the wonderful music from North Africa and Egypt and Guam and Greenland and Mars and wherever the hell else he goes.

I tried listening to this new one, but yet again it's another I won't be buying.


I like Krauss quite a bit & really wanted to like the duo cd, but fact is I don't like it.

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Wow, I didn't realize Plant's solo career was so divisive. Manic Nirvana is actually my least favorite of his solo albums and, as I mentioned in an earlier comment, I love everything he's done in the last dozen or so years. I thought the Krauss collaboration was fantastic.

Not much will top the excitement of seeing him on his first solo tour, at Madison Square Garden, in 1983. There are few albums I played in the early 80s as much as Pictures At Eleven and The Principle Of Moments. I didn't realize that Plant was dismissive of those albums. What does he know?

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Spent some quality time with this on the road last week... like the past couple of albums, this sounds better on paper ("powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep", according to the man himself) than in actual execution. Performances which straddle several genres simultaneously would be more effective with a narrower focus. A week later, only "Believe" lingers in the memory.

Not that there isn't stuff here for Plant fans, but for those who mark post-1993 as the beginning of the decline this is probably a "pass".

UPDATE: The vinyl version of this release also includes a physical CD.

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Tricky Kid wrote:
Spent some quality time with this on the road last week... like the past couple of albums, this sounds better on paper ("powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep", according to the man himself) than in actual execution. Performances which straddle several genres simultaneously would be more effective with a narrower focus. A week later, only "Believe" lingers in the memory.

Not that there isn't stuff here for Plant fans, but for those who mark post-1993 as the beginning of the decline this is probably be a "pass".


Well said.

I mentioned my feelings earlier, and Plant is just so enamored with NOT making Rock any more that it seems he goes out of his way to dismiss his early solo years and Zep at times. He still plays rearranged Zep songs, so he's not totally dismissive, but I'm just not into it.

I saw this online for $6.99 free S&H and still passed.

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I really like this album. Is it a departure from previous, yes but so has been last few. It has a nice mystic vibe about it. And the more I play it even more I enjoy.

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