Some of the most energised and eclectic music Plant has ever made.
Re-energized by Dreamland – and by the critical acclaim that greeted it – Robert Plant cemented his relationship with his backing band (now minus guitarist Porl Thompson and bassist Charlie Jones) by bestowing the name the Strange Sensation on them. He then dragged them off to his farm in South Snowdonia. "The environment just seemed like the right thing to do," he said. "A place where we'd be together 24 hours a day, five days a week, so that people could go off in different little factions."
On the blastingly powerful Mighty ReArranger, Plant used the Strange Sensation to effect a new fusion of Zeppelin-esque rock and North African rhythm: a mighty rearrangement indeed. Though he had long been fascinated with the exotically discordant scales of eastern and African music, the immediate inspiration was his recent appearance at Mali's Festival in the Desert. "We were exposed to some of the most vibrant music and delivery I've ever experienced," Plant said of the festival near Timbuktu. "We've taken quite a few of the rhythms from there and superimposed them onto rock and roll structure." Key to effecting this was chief accomplice and multi-string-instrumentalist Justin Adams, who would go on to work with the acclaimed Malian troupe Tinariwen.
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