The Escape Plan

2011 - Johnny Church's second album, featuring once again Tyson Domitrovits on many tracks as drummer and on various percussion instruments, and this time also with Nico Church (drums), Kathleen Noah (vocals & violin) and Jordan Clayton (violin).

With the exception of All in His Name, which was originally written by Ian Duckworth, the rest of the album is composed by Johnny Church. This album, released two years after Starscape Over Sunny-Sider-Up, turns toward a calmer, folky instrumentation (rather than progressive rock), and features a deeper lyrical intimacy, its poetry and instrumentality rooted in a simplicity, with more acoustic textures, and less from anthemic or epic synthesized or electric intensity of the prior album - where God was first encountered exteriorly through symphony and organ bass with soaring electric mandolin solos, this second album is likewise a turn inward, where God is now met more deeply, more intimately in the contemplative interior life. Despite this, a few instrumental tracks such as Into the Sky, featuring Johnny Church, Nico Church and Tyson Domitrovits performing together in a drum circle, or Sunrise, as well as Unarmed and Waiting, feature symphonic movements so large and grand that the listener is not left to their own; these encounters are representative of the divine interventions that seem to punctuate our lives.

This album was recorded in Oujé-Bougoumou, Québec, as well as in a church in Ottawa, Ontario.

A combined album release and Christmas concert was hosted in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in December 2011, featuring Johnny Church himself, Katou Church (vocals, bass); Nico Church (djembe, vocals, various percussion); Kathleen Noah (guitar, vocals); Jordan Clayton (violin), Charity Corbett (saxophone, vocals); Sierra DiGiacomo-Maika (keyboards); and lastly Amanda Kelly (guitar, vocals).

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1 - Intro: Fire Escape

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2 - Let Go

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3 - Into the Sky

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4 - You Are

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5- Just to Hear You

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6 - Sing, My King

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7 - Sunrise

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8 - Overflow

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9 - Evermore

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10 - Oceans Across

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11 - Time Stops

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12 - So Shall It Be

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13 - All in His Name

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14 - Come Home

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15 - Unarmed and Waiting

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