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Great Escapes

by Eureka

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1.
Stepping Out 02:08
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2.
Animated World 04:00
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3.
Stolen Child 03:47
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4.
One Million Stars 03:56
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5.
State Of View 04:08
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6.
Chase The Dream 06:33
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7.
Escape! 03:38
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8.
On The Run 04:02
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9.
The Big Picture 10:08
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10.
Solid Ground 04:48
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about

And the road goes on...

After releasing Eureka’s first concept album “Shackleton’s Voyage” in 2009 I was intrigued by the idea of returning to a musical area that I had abandoned for a long time since the younger days of my life as a musician.
I wanted to do a prog rock album and I wanted to do it fast!
You guess the punchline - it turned out taking as long as always, because life is what happens while you’re making plans, right?

Despite the less glamorous activities of a contemporary musician's life, years of court procedures to fight for regular contact with my beloved son also prevented me from, let’s say - doing it too fast!
But what doesn’t kill you... exactly! I’m an artist and we have the helpful affectation to compensate life’s triumphs and tragedies into songs or whatever. So I wrote “Stolen Child” to express the insanity of being alienated from one’s only child - my contribution to help gain awareness for the Parental-Alienation-Syndrome (PAS).

Although “Great Escapes” is not a concept album in its classical meaning, most of the lyrics revolve around a main topic.
“Great Escapes” is about the aspiration to find ways out of the dead ends in life! To find the vibrancy in life that makes the difference between life and existence.
It’s about our desire to escape from the gravity that everyday life holds in store. Step out and make the most of it - life is too short!

Enjoy your great escapes!

credits

released November 6, 2015

Frank Bossert : Lead and backing vocals, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, Taurus bass pedals,
keyboards, mandolin, tin whistle, bodhrán, percussion and drums on tracks 5, 6, 7 and 9

Steve Hanson : Drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10

Cathrine Jauer : Backing vocals on tracks 4, 6 and 9

Martje Johannsen, Katharina Raschke, Lena Wulff : Backing vocals on track 10

Odin Hansen : Guitar solo on track 4

Yogi Lang : additional keyboards on tracks 6 and 10

Great Escapes was produced and recorded by Frank Bossert at The Cabin
Mixed and mastered by Yogi Lang at Farm Studios / Munich
All music and lyrics written by Frank Bossert
All songs published by Edition Soundchaser / Future World Publishing
Cover artwork by Frank Bossert
Photo “The girl from Havana” shown on pages 1, 4, 20, CD-label and inlay card
by krockenmitte/photocase.de

Guitar maintenance by Ralf Mansfeld at www.guitar-center-flensburg.de
Equipment by Musikhaus Husum, special thanks to Franz Seelhöfer and Gunnar Staege

Frank would like to give special thanks to:

my wife, Raina Susann Bossert, for her love and support, my dear friend and word editor Bert Fleißig, Andreas Brzoska, my buddy and (mainly) well disposed critic (”I wouldn’t have needed the tin whistle!”), Torsten Funk for the “Animated World” video clip (great job, Funki!) , Dirk Jacob at Tempus Fugit, Hauke Sechting (www.linientreu-hq.de) - webpage design, the people at Moog Music, Dave Smith, Ned Steinberger and last but not least my partners in crime for their great contributions to this record:
Steve Hanson, Cathrine Jauer (www.cathrinejauer.com) Martje Johannsen, Katharina Raschke, Lena Wulff, Odin Hansen and Yogi Lang (www.rpwl.de)

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