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THE LONG-LOST SONGS (2024)

“The Long-Lost Songs” is a title with years of history behind it, in fact, over 30. We need to go all the way back to the 90s, where polymath Arjen Lucassen and singer Robert Soeterboek met and thus a life-long collaboration and friendship would flourish.

At this time, they collaborated and wrote about 20 music ideas together, which turned into demos, and even fully formed the band with Peter Vink on bass, Cleem Determeijer on hammond, and Rob van der List on drums. However, it was the days of grunge and getting a deal for a rock album like this was though, so the project was kept on hold… until now.

Fast forward to 2022, and the project started to resurface. Firstly, a new version of the song “Annie Moore” was recorded, just to test the waters… and eventually, Arjen and Robert rewrote and re-recorded over 13 tracks and had an entire album ready to be unvelied to the world – Plan Nine’s “Long-Lost Songs” were no longer lost.

Featuring some of the original Plan Nine musicians – Peter Vink (bass on “Annie Moore”), Cleem Determeijer (hammond on “Annie Moore”), Mirjam van Doorn (backing vocals on “Annie Moore”) – but also some new faces in the project that will surely be familiar to those acquainted with Robert’s and Arjen’s work – Marcel Singor (guitars), Koen Herfst (drums), Rob van der Loo (bass), Joost van den Broek and Willem Hoving (hammond), Irene Jansen (backing vocals) and Rowdy Prins (pedal steel guitar on “Long Cold Night”) – “The Long-Lost Songs” is a blues-hard rock oriented album that is sure to take you on a journey through wild west-like visuals and sounds, and where you’ll get to experience equally wild nights and days.