ROBERT Plant will release his new album, Lullaby And...The Ceaseless Roar, on September 8 in his label debut for Nonesuch/East West Records.

Produced by the Led Zeppelin frontman, it features 11 new recordings, nine of them original songs written by Plant with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters.

The band is: Justin Adams, on djembe and guitar; John Baggott, keyboards, loops and moog bass; Juldeh Camara, kologo, ritti and Fulani vocals; Billy Fuller, bass, drum programming, omnichord and upright bass; Dave Smith, drums, and Liam “Skin” Tyson, banjo and guitar.

On the back of their Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury last month, Plant and co will promote the album on a 13-date tour that visits Hull City Hall on November 14 and Leeds O2 Academy on November 17, joined by New York support act The Last Internationale. Tickets are on sale at £45 and £40 on 0844 811 0051, at gigsandtour.com or at robertplant.com

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. Adams and Baggott appeared on Plant’s 2002 release, Dreamland, while all Space Shifters but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s Mighty Rearranger.

Plant’s band toured the world before the recording sessions at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath. Only the single Rainbow was recorded in the Contino Rooms in London and among the other new compositions are Pocketful Of Golden, A Stolen Kiss, Embrace Another Fall, House Of Love and Up On The Hollow Hill (Understanding Arthur).

“It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” says Plant. “The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood. I’m very lucky to work with The Sensational Space Shifters. They come from exciting areas of contemporary music.”

Analysing the record’s genesis, he says: “I’ve 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, and now I’m able to express my feelings through melody, power and trance; together in a kaleidoscope of sound, colour and friendship.”