Time Travel Is Lonely is the second album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by John Vanderslice

John Vanderslice

John Vanderslice is an American musician and songwriter. Previously a member of the band Mk Ultra, he now records and performs as a solo artist.-Early years:...

, released in 2001. Time Travel Is Lonely is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 about Vanderslice's fictional brother Jesse Vanderslice as he slowly succumbs to polar madness while living in Antarctica.

In the track "Do You Remember," Vanderslice imagines different possible outcomes for the famous Chinese rebel

Tank Man

Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protestors from in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man achieved widespread international...

 who held back tanks while protesting for Democracy at Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

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The song "Interlude 2" is based on the 1st Prelude in C from Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

's Well Tempered Clavier.

Track listing

1. "You Were My Fiji"
2. "Keep the Dream Alive"
3. "Little Boy Lost"
4. "Interlude 1"
5. "Everything Changed"
6. "My Old Flame"
7. "Interlude 3"
8. "Time Travel Is Lonely"
9. "If I Live or If I Die"
10. "Emma Pearl"
11. "Interlude 2"
12. "Do You Remember"
13. "Gainesville, Fla"