No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded CD

Remastered Acoustic Album Feat 2 Bonus Tracks.

Personnel includes: Jimmy Page (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin); Robert Plant, Najma Akhtar (vocals); Porl Thompson (guitar, banjo); Jim Sutherland (mandolin, bodhran); Nigel Eaton (hurdy gurdy); Ed Shearmur (Hammond B-3); Charlie Jones (bass, percussion); Michael Lee (drums, percussion); Hossam Ramzy, Ibrahim Abdel Khaliq (percussion); Abdel Salam Kheir (oud); London Metropolitan Orchestra, Hassan El Arfaoui, El Mahjoub El Mathoun, Abdelhak Eddahmane.
Recorded in Marrakesh, Morocco; Bron-Y-Aur, Wales; London, England.
"Kashmir" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
Personnel: Najma, Najma Akhtar (vocals); Abdul Salam Kheir (oud); Perry Mason, Mark Berrow, Jessica OLeary, Ed Coxon, Jeremy Williams, Pauline Lowbury, Anne Morlee, Elizabeth Layton, Clare Thompson, Peter G. Hanson, Harriet Davies, Ian Humphries, David Ogden, Cathy Thompson (violin); Andrew Brown , Janet Atkins, John Jezzard, Andrew Brown , Bill Hawkes, Nic Pendlebury (viola); Bahig Mikhaeel, Amin Abdelazeem, Hanafi Soliman, Waiel Abo Baker (strings); Bashir Abdel Al (nay); Edward Shearmur (Hammond b-3 organ); Charlie Jones (bass guitar, percussion); Michael Lee (drums, percussion); Ibrahim Abdel Khaliq (bendir, finger cymbals); Farouk El Safi, Farid Khashab, Ali Abdel Salem (bendir); Robert Plant (vocals); Porl Thompson (guitar, banjo); Jimmy Page (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Nigel Eaton (hurdy-gurdy); Jim Sutherland (mandolin, bodhran); Rosemary Furness, David Juritz, Rita Manning (violin); Rusen Gunes, Andrew Parker (viola); Hossam Ramzy.
Audio Remixer: Kevin Shirley.
Recording information: 08/1994.
Photographer: Andy Earl.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Ibrahim Abdel Khaliq; Farouk El Safi; Ali Abdel Salem.
Arrangers: Jimmy Page; Robert Plant.
Ever since Led Zeppelin parted ways after the death of drummer John Bonham, fans were clamoring for the mighty band to reunite. This willfully ignored both the vital contribution Bonham gave to the group's mystique and Zeppelin's woeful one-off reunion at the 1985 Live Aid charity concert, but the legend of the band was so strong, reunion rumors reached a fever pitch whenever vocalist Robert Plant or guitarist Jimmy Page had a new album in the stores. In 1994, following Plant's moody, misunderstood 1993 album Fate of Nations and Page's widely lambasted collaboration with Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, the two quietly reunited to record a concert for MTV's then-popular acoustic concert series Unplugged. Page & Plant interpreted the Unplugged moniker rather liberally, bringing in a full orchestra, mandolins, and a hurdy-gurdy among other instruments, and Page turned to an electric guitar on occasion. Nevertheless, the "unplugged" setting did give the duo an opportunity to gracefully back away from the bombast that was assumed to be Zeppelin's stock-in-trade; after all, it would have been very hard to do "Whole Lotta Love," "Dazed and Confused," or "Trampled Underfoot" in this setting. Instead, this gives them a chance to dive into the moodiest material, trading heavily on the folk, blues, and world music that gave Led Zeppelin a richness unheard in their heavy rock peers. This might not be what some diehards were expecting from a reunion, but it was a gutsy move from Page & Plant, and the ensuing album, No Quarter, has aged remarkably well. That's not to say that it's timeless music, or a latter-day comeback on the level of Bob Dylan's Love and Theft, but this is ambitiously atmospheric, restless music by musicians not content to rest on their laurels. They do draw heavily from their past, but these new versions of classic Led Zeppelin songs sound reinvigorated in these new arrangements. At times, this means that the songs are given rather drastic reinterpretations -- "Nobody's Fault but Mine" brings the brooding undercurrent of the original to the surface, "Four Sticks"