On September 18, 2006, “Bloodfish Music” label released “The Great Leap”, the sixth Phideaux Xavier album. It was recorded in 2006, at “Firehouse Recording Studios” in Pasadena, “Phideaux’s Lair, & Treehouse Mixing”, and was produced by Gabriel Moffat.

Personnel:

• Gabriel Moffat – electric guitar, arrangements, mixing
• Arlan Shierbaum – Hammond organ, piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer
• Rich Hutchins – drums, percussion
• Jo Pusateri – snare
• Hiker Frostbelt – flute, zurna, recorder
• Probyn Gregory – theremin, trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, trombone
• Ariel Farber – vocals, violin
• Linda Ruttan-Moldawsky, Molly Ruttan, Valerie Gracious – vocals
• Stefanie Fife – cello
• Probyn Gregory – arrangement
• Ed Woolley, Milton G. Ruezga –second engineer
• Molly Ruttan – painting, design, artwork

Track listing:

1. Wake Up
2. You and Me Against a World of Pain
3. The Waiting
4. Abducted
5. Rainboy
6. I Was Thinking
7. Long and Lonely Way
8. They Hunt You Down
9. Tannis Root
10. One Star
11. Last