lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

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Robert Plant’s label debut, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar was produced by Plant and features 11 new recordings, nine of which are original songs he wrote with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters. "It’s really a celebratory record," says Plant, "powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep." Q calls it "his best solo album yet … a beautifully moving, soul-stirring, bravely genre-blurring album."

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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. The track “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 kaleidoscope of sound, colour, and friendship.”

ProductionCredits

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Robert Plant
Recorded by Tim Oliver at Helium Studios, Wiltshire and Real World Studios, Bath
Assistant Engineers: Patrick Philips, Pete Senne
Except “Rainbow,” recorded by Tim Holmes at Contino Rooms, London
Piano on "A Stolen Kiss" recorded at St. George's Chapel, Bristol
Tracks 2, 6, 9 mixed by Tim Oliver at Top Cat Studio, Wiltshire
Tracks, 1, 3–5, 7–8, 10–11 mixed by Tchad Blake at Full Mongrel, Wales
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

“Embrace Another Fall” includes vocals by Julie Murphy excerpted from “Marwnad yr Ehedydd” (The Lark’s Elegy) – Juliemurphymusic.com

Design by Brett Kilroe

Nonesuch Selection Number

543973

Number of Discs in Set
1disc
Album Status
Artist Name
Robert Plant
MusicianDetails

MUSICIANS
Robert Plant

In deep with the unshakeable groove:
Justin Adams, bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals
John Baggott, keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals
Juldeh Camara, kologo, ritti, vocals (in Fulani) on “Arbaden (Maggie’s Babby)”
Billy Fuller, bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass
Dave Smith, drumkit
Liam “Skin” Tyson, banjo, guitar, background vocals

Cover Art
UPC/Price
Label
2LP+MP3
Price
21.00
UPC
075597954012
Label
CD+MP3
UPC
075597954005
Label
FLAC
Price
12.00
UPC
075597953787
Label
MP3
Price
11.00
UPC
075597954203
  • 543973

News & Reviews

  • Robert Plant's Digging Deep podcast has returned for its fourth season. He and co-host Matt Everitt pick up their conversation on the season opener with "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," a song written and recorded by Ersel Hickey in 1958 and made a hit by Ritchie Valens that same year. Plant recorded a version for his 2017 Nonesuch album, Carry Fire, with guest vocalist Chrissie Hynde. You can hear the podcast episode and watch the video for Plant's take on the song here.

  • The latest episode of Robert Plant's new podcast series, Digging Deep, digs deep into the title track from his latest album, Carry Fire. "The way that we've been constructing music for the last couple of albums with the Space Shifters has been pretty modular," he says. "Each guy in our cooperative creates ideas and sends them to me or to each other and they go up to the misty mountains ... There's a lot of sketches, some of them are black-and-white, some of them are going into color and that's how all these songs are developed." You can listen to the episode and watch a live performance of "Carry Fire" here.

  • About This Album

    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. The track “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 kaleidoscope of sound, colour, and friendship.”

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Robert Plant

    In deep with the unshakeable groove:
    Justin Adams, bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals
    John Baggott, keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals
    Juldeh Camara, kologo, ritti, vocals (in Fulani) on “Arbaden (Maggie’s Babby)”
    Billy Fuller, bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass
    Dave Smith, drumkit
    Liam “Skin” Tyson, banjo, guitar, background vocals

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced by Robert Plant
    Recorded by Tim Oliver at Helium Studios, Wiltshire and Real World Studios, Bath
    Assistant Engineers: Patrick Philips, Pete Senne
    Except “Rainbow,” recorded by Tim Holmes at Contino Rooms, London
    Piano on "A Stolen Kiss" recorded at St. George's Chapel, Bristol
    Tracks 2, 6, 9 mixed by Tim Oliver at Top Cat Studio, Wiltshire
    Tracks, 1, 3–5, 7–8, 10–11 mixed by Tchad Blake at Full Mongrel, Wales
    Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

    “Embrace Another Fall” includes vocals by Julie Murphy excerpted from “Marwnad yr Ehedydd” (The Lark’s Elegy) – Juliemurphymusic.com

    Design by Brett Kilroe