Track Listing

1. Another Tribe
2. Shine It All Around (Es Paranza (UK) Single SANSE369 Apr '05)
3. Freedom Fries
4. Tin Pan Valley
5. All The Kings Horses
6. Enchanter
7. Takamba
8. Dancing In Heaven
9. Somebody Knocking
10. Let The Four Winds Blow
11. Mighty Rearranger
12. Brother Ray
13. Red White And Blue
14. All The Money In The World
15. Shine It All Around
16. Tin Pan Valley
17. Enchanter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25746 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
If anything, Robert Plant‘s career as a solo artist appears to be improving with age. With Mighty Rearranger, he builds on the success of his previous album, 2002’s Dreamland, blending electronic experimentation with world music eclecticism. On tracks like "Shine It All Around", "All the King’s Horses", "Tin Pan Alley" and "Freedom Fries" recall his past life as frontman for rock icons Led Zeppelin, taking cues from blues, rock and Eastern music. Of course, he’s continuing to mellow in his later years, and his voice can’t hit the heady heights it once did, but it’s still impressive and distinctive. And his band the Strange Sensation--in particular, bassist Billy Fuller and drummer Clive Deamer--continue to shine, even ! though they’ve been given the unenviable task of trying to fill the shoes once worn by Page, Bonham and Jones. Bits of the album may get a little repetitive towards the end, but Mighty Rearranger is still a fine showing by a living rock legend. --Ted Kord

Album Description
Ex-Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant releases his new studio album, The Mighty Rearranger, recorded in Wales and England with his band Strange Sensation--the same group with which he recorded 2002's Dreamland. The album includes the brilliant single "Shine It All Around".

CD Description
Against all odds, Robert Plant, the ultimate '70s rock god,has consistently managed to remain artistically relevant throughout the decades of his post-Led Zeppelin career. In the'80s he updated his sound to incorporate an almost new wavesensibility on his solo albums, as well as turning the clock all the way back to the '50s with jump-blues band the Honeydrippers --- hardly the stuff of "Kashmir".
While there are some echoes of Zep on MIGHTY REARRANGER (Bonhamesque whomping drums, Middle Eastern influences, transmogrified bluesriffs), Plant isn't resting on his laurels here. The synth-filled "Tin Pan Valley" bears more of a relation to trip-hopthan to blues-rock; "Brother Ray" is a quirky, lo-fi piano boogie; and for much of the album Plant veers toward the lower, more intimate end of his vocal range, largely eschewing the high-pitched wail that made him a superstar in bygone stadium-rock days. Plant is joined here by the musicians who helped make his covers album DREAMLAND such a worthy project,and it sounds like they managed to gel into a full-fledged band, giving their leader a solid framework to work his often-hypnotic magic.

Customer Reviews

Not Zeppelin . . . but that's the point.
First a warning. You'll have seen reviews comparing this new Plant album with Physical Graffiti and other "mid period Zeppelin" offerings.

It doesn't stand the comparison . . . in the same way a Porsche Boxter doesn't really compare to a Ferrari F1 car.

There's no "Kashmir" here, no "Custard Pie" or "Trampled Underfoot". The bravado and bawdiness of a mid-70s Plant is superceded by the more mature world view that comes with experience.

And that's a good thing. There's something a little silly about men in their late 50s bawling lyrics about sexual potency which they wrote in their mid-20s.

Plant's words on this album hint that that's the way he feels about things. His cv guarantees a level of interest way beyond the norm, but this music is not the sound of a hairy old rocker trading on past glories.

Listen to "Tin Pan Valley" where Plant rounds on his peers "who flirt with cabaret" or "fake the rebel yell" and you get the feeling he will not be bringing out an album of Cole Porter covers or re-forming Led Zeppelin - two more good things.

Neither will he be sending a Christmas card to George Bush, if you go by the sentiments of "Takamba" of "Another Tribe".

Thought-provoking, musically-challenging and, above all, brave.
Plant doesn't have to take chances or challenge expectations, but he does on this album.

Buy it for those reasons, and not because this guy used to sing for Led Zeppelin, and you won't be disappointed.

Don't mention you know who
Robert Plant has one of the most distinctive voices in rock music with a CV to match. This is not a Plant solo album as here the Strange Sensation step forward to challenge and push Mr Plant. Yes his voice has changed with age, but it is still unmistakeably his voice. This album melds all sorts of world influences with rock and blues,to come out as the best record Plant has made since the mid 70s.

Highlights are the first single Shine It All Around (there is also trance version of it as a hidden track), All The King's Horses, Tin Pan Valley (a great statement of principles from Robert) and Freedom Fries.

I am happy to recommend this album to anyone who likes Robert Plant's music.

Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation - MIGHTY REARRANGER
This CD is full of superb original tracks. The "new" band & Plant seem to meld perfectly. The production & mixing give this album a fresh & interesting sound. The unmistakeable Plant voice is really excellent. This guys voice gets better & better the older he gets!!!
Each musician is clearly highly accomplished & polished, there are so many unusual percusion arrangements, and you find that after several listenings up pops another hidden gem of drumming delights.
Guitars & Keyboards are brilliant & the new Bass man is very very cool. Sometimes you think that a particular member of a band stands out from the crowd, in this case EVERY band member fits in & works together to make this a "Strange Sensation" experience.
There is not a bad track on this CD & I guess that a lot of people will draw comparisons with the Led Zeppelin days, well this is to be expected, because lets face it, how many musicians out there today can honestly say that they havent been influenced by Led Zeppelin. Robert Plant, after all was a very, very big influence on Led Zeppelin!
GO OUT AND BUY THIS CD. IT IS, HONESTLY, A QUALITY PRODUCT IN EVERY WAY.