07:35 by Milbert Hoven

Welcome to the Milbert Hoven Project. All songs composed, written and produced by Milbert Hoven.

Background:

Milbert is our dear friend who started his musical career at the tender age of 12, playing guitar along with recordings of and watching his musical heroes on TV. Once well infected by the rock and glam-rock virus, he paid his dues and became a brilliant composer, versatile multi-instrumentalist and popular producer.

Eventually he was signed to major labels in the US and Europe as a highly regarded and gifted, wild, impetuous artist composing, arranging and recording other artists along with his own offerings. However, it was almost inevitable that he’d make a break with the music industry especially given the advent of digital processing and seeking to influence and control his work, and so launched out on his own.

Today, after having withdrawn completely from the profit-driven business machine, he lives right in the middle of nowhere; basically on a farm, but also within his world of creative freedom and unlimited imagination. While hiding from the world for years he composed and recorded amazing songs about life on earth, relationships, love in space, anguish, joy and losing his mind, not to earn money, not to become famous and not to earn a number in the chart rankings, but to live. No one has even heard these songs and we think it's a crime to not share them! As fish must swim, birds must fly and these songs, these stories must be heard to delight and inspire listeners all around the world.

Milbert Hoven Project:

This is precisely why we started this project and decided to reach out to the musical community for help and collaboration. Your ideas, suggestions and support on how to further develop the Milbert Hoven Project are more than welcome. Our pact of secrecy? Don’t worry, Milbert is usually lost in composition and sound settings. He's always off-grid and won’t notice any of this until that big day. Yeah! :)

To ensure a high level of transparency, regular updates on the project will be posted. Join us in this project and show Milbert that handmade, grass-roots, story-telling and seriously good music albeit outside the mainstream still has an audience and appreciation. Listen to the songs we've selected, share them, buy them, like them or leave a comment. Why buy them? Because these songs are demo analog recordings and still in need of final production in a recording studio with an engineer, voices and instrumentalists which is costly. With the revenue of our demo sales we will surprise Milbert and move the project forward, supported by fans and friends.

It's Milbert's Time:

So, the time is now. Let's get started and start to rejuvenate the world of music through the power and collaboration of online media and real people. People power still exists. Enough talking. It's time to listen. All the lyrics come from true life stories which we all share and/or can relate. We hope you like Milbert's songs as much as we do.

Milbert Hoven, composer, multi-instrumantalist and producer was signed to major labels in the US and Europe. What do you think about the demo songs on album 07:35? We'd love to hear from you.