Robert Plant has recorded a cover of Elbow's "The Blanket Of Night" for an album aimed at helping the refugee crisis in Europe. Plant said: “We have a worldwide international catastrophe – talking about it is one thing, doing something about it is another. “The position we are in, it’s par...
Robert Plant has recorded a cover of Elbow‘s “The Blanket Of Night” for an album aimed at helping the refugee crisis in Europe.
Plant said: “We have a worldwide international catastrophe – talking about it is one thing, doing something about it is another.
“The position we are in, it’s paramount we all do our best one way or another to help.”
The project, created with the British Red Cross, is being produced by Ethan Johns.
Tinariwen have also contributed to the record, recording a new track, “Silence”.
The group’s founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, was a refugee as a child and was forced to flee his home in Mali after his father was executed in the 1963 uprising.
Other artists who feature on the compilation album The Long Road include spoken word artist Scroobius Pip, Kindness and the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars.
You can watch a trailer for the record below.
The record, released on March 4, 2016, is available to pre-order by clicking here.
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