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ARTIST
TITLE
Plan For A Miracle
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
EDDA 064LP EDDA 064LP
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RELEASE DATE
3/8/2024

"I like to work with a variety of instruments and set ups," says Mark Van Hoen, sometimes known as Locust or Autocreation but here working under his own name on the excellent Plan For A Miracle, his first physical release of solo music since 2018's Invisible Threads (TO 104CD). "Sometimes it's literally in my studio, with all the hardware electronics available. Sometimes the laptop, using software instruments. Some of the tracks on this record were recorded in the desert (Joshua Tree) using a four-track tape machine and small modular synthesizer set up. Each track was recorded in different location using different instruments, which accounts for the distinction between each piece. It's also about my own reaction to my environment, and what's going on in my life at the time." Mark Van Hoen has worked on a number of collaborations, including with Nick Holton and Neil Halstead of Slowdive, under the moniker of Black Hearted Brother -- their Stars Are Our Home was released in 2013. Each track on Plan For A Miracle does indeed sound like a world unto itself, a mini-environment, a weather condition, an ecosystem created for the moment. It's a collection of tracks recorded over the past few years, released on Bandcamp -- despite his apparent absence, Van Hoen works constantly. Although the album is non-thematic, non-specific in its atmospheres, sound paintings, elegant structures it most certainly stands as a magnificent monument to Osho's memory. Album mastered for vinyl by Stefan Betke at Scape. Artwork by Ian Anderson (Designers Republic).