The Escape Plan, by Bruce Enloe

The Escape Plan

by Bruce Enloe

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1.	The Lost Song/The Escape Plan Part I 04:27	buy track
2.	Song Down By That Tree 04:28	buy track
3.	Mexican Ritalin 02:25	buy track
4.	Keys 04:20	buy track
5.	The Escape Plan Part II 02:28	buy track
6.	The River Keeper 04:40	buy track
7.	(Getting My) Hopes Up 03:54	buy track
8.	Somewhat Disagree 04:27	buy track
9.	The Escape Plan Part III 02:27	buy track
10.	I Can't Fix You 04:57	buy track
11.	The Lost Song (Fragments) 02:08	buy track

about

The songs for 'The Escape Plan' were mostly conceived and written both alongside and as a follow up ('Book II' or ’Part II’) for my 2019 album 'A Perfect Cliché'. Unsurprisingly (pandemic?) been a slow process… Originally intended to be recorded as a studio album with the full band, I've instead taken on the recording process myself, a process that has been started and aborted many times (with widely varying results...) Recently inspired to revisit the multiple attempts, I realized that the mishmash of ideas work as a pastiche or collage. Production-wise, the result is a weird, eclectic cross section of the best (or at least most interesting) of the varied approaches, ranging from excessive, densely multi-tracked psychedelia, to simple ‘boy plus guitar’ acoustic takes...

The songs and lyrics cover themes of transition, growth, escape, art, political consciousness, and spirituality. The narrative (found on the 'Lyrics' page at at brucceenloe.com), follows the story of a ‘lost song’ and a quest along an imaginary river to recover both the song and the freedom that the protagonist feels it represents. The redemption comes from an acceptance of cycles and an understanding that there is only one river and that it is the sea. Or something like that...

"And in the end, I will forgive myself, and learn to love again..."

credits

released March 6, 2022

All instruments/vocals/sequencing Bruce Enloe drum loops on 1,5,7: www.organicdrumloops.com Loop on 4: www.naskingston.com/download-free-lofi-drums.html