The Great Leap is the fifth album released by composer Phideaux Xavier

Phideaux Xavier

Phideaux Xavier is an American TV director and composer of modern technological music that he describes as "psychedelic progressive gothic rock", who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles.-Life and work:...

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In August 2005, while putting the finishing touches on 313, Xavier returned to the studio to record the first two parts of a projected "Trilogy" of albums dealing with "Big Brother" authoritarianism and ecological crisis. Part One, The Great Leap, was released in September of 2006, and Part Two, Doomsday Afternoon

Doomsday Afternoon

Doomsday Afternoon is the sixth studio album by American musician Phideaux Xavier, and the second part of his projected "Trilogy" of albums dealing with "Big Brother" authoritarianism and ecological crisis, after Part One, "The Great Leap"...

in 2007. Part One features shorter songs and is somewhat more of a return to the simpler song structures of Ghost Story

Ghost Story (Phideaux Xavier album)

Ghost Story is the second album released by composer Phideaux Xavier.After completing Fiendish, Xavier was convinced he now had the machinery in place to satisfactorily record his songs from the aborted album Ghost Story. He and drummer Rich Hutchins quickly reconvened to redo that album with...

, whereas Part Two is one long song, more akin to Chupacabras

Chupacabras (album)

Chupacabras is the third album released by composer Phideaux Xavier.While recording "Fiendish" in 2002, Xavier had begun work on an epic song called "Chupacabras". This song was not completed in time for inclusion on Fiendish, and instead, formed the basis for what would become the album Chupacabras...

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Tracks

1. "Wake Up" (04:03)
2. "You and Me Against a World of Pain" (05:35)
3. "The Waiting" (03:33)
4. "Abducted" (06:10)
5. "Rainboy" (06:15)
6. "I Was Thinking" (04:24)
7. "Long and Lonely Way" (04:18)
8. "They Hunt You Down" (03:54)
9. "Tannis Root" (04:52)
10. "One Star" (05:14)
11. "Last" (05:50)