Robert Plant's new project

[c-towns]

It looks interesting and likely a nice addition to Gathering of the Vibes based on the dates I see.

Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters

One of a generation of British kids, drawn without rhyme or reason, to sounds from a far away world. A world of field holler, despair, Levee camp and chain- gang moans; of Saturday night fish-fry and Juke Joint foot stomp. A million miles lay between the brooding pulse of Mississippi Delta life and the sanitized shelter of the timid English boy, circa 1962.

Fifty years on — drawing from a lifetime of adventures, tracking the dark, beautiful resonator, Plant follows his heart and lifts his voice higher and joyous ever away. A voice of experience and learning from the sounds of Southside Chicago Electric Blues; of Griot mantras from West Africa; from Louisiana Dance Halls; Greenwich Village Folk hangover; Haight Ashbury indulgences; Moroccan medina breakbeat; the early English radical techno materials, Texas two-step and Bristol Dubstep.

Before his recent projects in Nashville with Alison Krauss and Band of Joy, Plant worked alongside the very interesting force, “Strange Sensationâ€, recording the critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy nominated albums – Dreamland and Mighty Rearranger. From this platform, Sensational Space Shifters has developed. Now together these confederates and conspirators dig deeper and more intensely, always twisting and turning, bringing the past into a brilliant technicolour present.

The band is:

Justin Adams – guitar, bendir, vocals

John Baggott – keyboards

Juldeh Camara – ritti (one stringed African violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals

Billy Fuller – bass guitar, vocals

Dave Smith – drums and percussion

Liam “Skin†Tyson – guitar, vocals

more info here

[hamilton]

Plant has really been an interesting character of late. I will probably need to hear this just because.