MUMBAI: Legendary blues rock band Led Zeppelin ex-frontman Robert Plant is gearing up to release a new album with his new band ‘The Sensational Space Shifters’.
The ‘Going to California’ vocalist has stated that the album will comprise of 12 tracks out of which 11 will be originals and depicts no sentimental stuff. The album compiles various genres of singer’s musical influences like hard rock, psychedelia, blues, American and British folk, Middle Eastern and African music.
“The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do. They gave me the springboard. All I’m doing is using the same amount of license, with different people, to what we did in 1969,” he reportedly said.
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He credited his recent stints with blues- and folk-influenced projects for helping him recapture his big voice’ back and his old band with helping inspire his recent musical journeys, like the Americana-flavored albums he recorded with Alison Krauss and The Band of Joy.
“That was the great thing about the adventures with Alison, and singing with Patty Griffin, (his partner) and (Band of Joy guitarist) Buddy Miller, that I started singing differently. Somebody said to me in London when we played the Forum recently, ‘You had your big voice back.’ I put the big voice away for quite a long time because I thought; we know how to do that. So it was good to get it out again. It’s all the same really; you just have to use the right colours for the right picture,” he said.
The group also announced series of South American tour dates starting from 18 October at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil till 9 November in Lima, Peru.
