“I’ve been very lucky to be attached and in love with so many different genres,” Mr. Hypnotic world-music grooves mesh with blues and country, as loops and programming mingle with banjo, electric guitars, synthesizers and a one-stringed West African fiddle. “Every time I make a record,” he said, “I have to find a time when I’m absolutely besotted by the work.”Īmerican, Celtic, Middle Eastern and African styles get a technological shake-up in his new songs, as the album transforms and reconfigures elements that have been part of Mr. And it’s the work of a musician who - after defining arena rock stardom when he was the golden-haired, wailing, howling lead singer of Led Zeppelin and then embarking on a long, varied solo career - has determinedly followed his instincts and impulses rather than more clearly commercial paths. Plant’s first album of his own new songs since he released “Mighty Rearranger” in 2005. The Ceaseless Roar” (Nonesuch), which is due for release Tuesday. Plant, 66, was talking by phone from his home in Shropshire, England, about his new album, “lullaby and. Have we forgotten that wilderness is not a place, but a season and that we are in its final hour?įor more information on a Wild Soul Safari call us on +1 8 or email us at Ian McCallum is the author of a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro and Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature, he has also published two anthologies of wilderness poetry entitled Wild Gifts and Untamed.“I’m always in a state of flux, I think,” Robert Plant said, then corrected himself. Have we forgotten that every creature is within us carried by tides of Earthly blood and that we named them? Since when did we become afraid of the night and that only the bright stars count? Or that our moon is not a moon unless it is full?īy whose command were the animals through groping fingers, one for each hand, reduced to the big and little five? Have we forgotten that wilderness is not a place but a moving feast of stars, footprints, scales and beginnings? Have we forgotten that wilderness is not a place, but a pattern of soul where every tree, every bird and beast is a soul maker? For Ian, it’s: ‘a voice, a poetic instinct that is the untameable heartbeat of our souls’. But together Deborah and Ian have created a powerful multi-disciplinary experience where poetry is but a language of hope. ‘And with Ian’s poetry an ever present narrative.’ When seen as a language of protest, poetry becomes a powerful way to articulate some of the harsher things we can’t always say. ‘Each trip is tailor-made to suit the client’s interests and levels of curiosity,’ says Deborah. Since then they have embarked upon two Wild Soul Safari’s to pristine wilderness areas where guests shared experiences at a depth way beyond expectation. And so together with Ian, Deborah has created a bespoke learning journey that encapsulates the cornerstones of Ian’s philosophy. The Wild Soul Safari was inspired by an epic five-month, 5,000 km journey that Ian undertook in 2012 when he walked, cycled and kayaked across six southern African countries. Let loose the medicines from your own hands.’ ‘We like to get under the skin of a guest’s expectations, and in doing so create a trip like no other.’ It’s the kind of call to arms that is best summed up by a line in one of Ian’s poems that reads: ‘One day your soul will call to you with a holy rage. ‘I like to curate indelible moments inspired by spending time in the places I have loved all my life,’ says Deborah, who was brought up on a farm in Zimbabwe. ‘There is a bigger agenda to our work in luxury travel in Africa that isn’t just intellectual capital, it’s emotional too.’ And so while Deborah and her team at ROAR AFRICA strive to take their clients to places that they wouldn’t ordinarily experience, their aim is for their guests to return home enlightened in a way that benefits the planet and its wildlife. ‘He really ignited a sense of urgency in me,’ she recalls. And particularly relevant in these polarized times.Īnd so when ROAR AFRICA’s founder Deborah Calmeyer first met fellow African Dr Ian McCallum some five years ago, their rapport was instant and their vision one. His belief in the inherent connectedness of all sentient beings and his assertion that we are all living archives for the history of life on the planet is both powerful and compelling stuff. These and many other facts are the marvelous ponderings that are revealed during time spent with wilderness guide, poet, writer, conservationist and psychiatrist, Dr Ian McCallum. Or that those of us with Blood Group O and A could – technically speaking – receive a blood transfusion from our closest living relative, the chimpanzee with whom there is a 99% crossover of the human genome. Did you know that trees and plants carry 15% of the human genome while insects carry 40%, and that birds and crocodiles carry a staggering 88% and 85% respectively?
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