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Watch: Robert Plant Posts 2nd Episode of His “Zirka” Series
Last week I told you about the video series Robert Plant has made documenting a trip to Mali to perform at the Festival in the Desert in 2003. Here’s the second episode.
You can watch part one here.
Watch: Robert Plant’s Malian Journey, “Zirka”
In 2003 Robert Plant and his band headed to Mali and Performed at the Festival in the Desert. The trip was videoed, mostly by Plant himself, and has been turned into an eight part series, “Zirka.” The first episode went online today, and there will be a new one every Monday. You can catch them each week here at Days of the Crazy-Wild, or head to Robert Plants website and watch there.
Robert writes on his Website about the series:
Call it fate or lady luck smiling down on me…
In 2001 my life in music hit a wondrous curve onto a road of good fortune – of new invention. I am ever intrigued by new possibilities and places and people to land amongst.
Zirka is a rough travelogue…
A journey of revelation…one of the most illuminating and humbling experiences of my life.
A journey that took us from the scurry and bustle of our world into the homeland of the Tuareg..the Sahel of Mali, Timbuctoo and north to Essakane.
A journey that could only reinforce the power and the great gift of music across and between cultures..sharing outside of language. A world where for awhile, at least borders, boundaries and barriers once again fell away..as it was long ago..— RP
Watch the first episode below:
Watch: Robert Plant & Sensational Space Shifters Do “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters play “Rock ‘n’ Roll” at the 2013 BluesFest, Royal Albert Hall, London, October 31, 2013.
Here’s “Fixin’ To Die”:
Robert Plant Plans Record Label, Launches “Robert Recommends” Streaming Playlist
Led Zep singer and solo artist Robert Plant says he intends to start his own independent record label, which he will call YamYam345, according to an interview with The Telegraph which has been posted on Plant’s own website.
In Birmingham, England they call the folks who live in the nearby Black Country, “yam yams.” Plant is from the Black Country.
“I’m just having a laugh kicking ass,” Plant said of the label, without offering any information about it.
Plant remains a huge blues fan. “The blues was a formative thing for me,” he said during his interview with The Telegraph. “It’s a very commodious condition because everybody feels it from time to time. It’s still in the way I sing, just throwing it on a different canvas, I think. It’s an affliction, the flattened third. Thank God it is. I’m 65, I’m loaded with it.” Plant has a poetic turn of phrase that is a delight to listen to in his soft, just faintly perceptible Black Country accent. “The blues is a genre that’s now mostly something of a memory, really, in performance and artistry. But it carries on, it flickers through, it has its moments.”
Plant has started a new feature on his website, Robert Recommends, a playlist of music that Robert digs that you can listen to on his site.
The first playlist includes songs by Fairport Convention, Oum Kalthoum, Charlie Rich, PJ Harvey, John Lee Hooker, Colexico and others.
Check it out here.
Robert Plant Discovers Lost Led Zeppelin Tapes
Robert Plant says he recently discovered old Led Zeppelin tapes that include unreleased music, some of which could show up on remastered versions of the group’s albums, which Jimmy Page has been working on for some time. There is currently no release date set for the remasters.
“I found some quarter-inch spools recently,” Plant told BBC 6Music’s Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie. “I had a meeting with Jimmy and we baked ’em up and listened to ’em. And there’s some very, very interesting bits and pieces that probably will turn up on these things [the remastered albums].”
Plant said bassist John Paul Jones sang on some of the tracks and joked that Jones has bribed him not to release them.
“So far, he’s going to give me two cars and a greenhouse not to get ’em on the album,” Plant said.
No new music to hear yet, but if you need a Zep fix: