I absolutely love this one. "Megamaser Emissions" sits at the pinnacle of an emotionally dysfunctional meltdown of cosmic proportions that should never have happened; nevertheless it did.
It's about looking down in the aftermath upon all the unintentional chaos and destruction that unfortunately had been wrought forth after approximately a little more than a decade of a very painful, enduring, and ultimately heartbreaking experience for me; in which my Family and I was mentally, emotionally, figuratively, and literally torn apart and hammered to pieces and dissected alive by our (my significant other and I) own doings, anxieties, mental illness, and depression, during one of the most tumultuous times that We all have ever known or gone through (and are still going through–albeit separately–with no end in sight.)
I pray for and can relate to anyone (which I am pretty sure is practically everyone nowadays) who can empathize and who might be able to understand even just a smidge of what I am recalling and describing. This album is a testament and tribute to those times. Times in which I had no hope. But, yet, hope still came to be. Thanks be to God. All of it.
God bless Her, always, my lost Love, MI AMOR, I miss and love You unconditionally so, forever. We all do. You are always in Our prayers and We will never give up hope for You wherever You are and no matter what You do...
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Soooo, huh, what exactly is a megamaser, you ask?
Well, when an entire galaxy suddenly becomes an astronomical laser beam that spits out microwave emissions rather than visible light, it thus becomes known as a 'maser.'
A 'megamaser' then, in turn, is a maser that is so intensely bright, it is approximately 100 million times brighter than the known masers that our found in galaxies like our own milky way.
According to NASA, "A megamaser is a process where some components within a galaxy (like gas clouds) are in the right stimulated physical condition to radiate intense energy (in this case, microwaves)." (European Space Agency, 2017, para. 2)
In my case, the right set of stimulated emotional and mental conditions to radiate intense energy was the last twelve years of my life. Admittedly, without really knowing and unable to properly ascertain as such, I would imagine that akin to the destructive force at the beginning of a major megamaser burst on it's neighboring galactic environment–bam! Just like that–my Family's entire existence was mowed down cold in its tracks.
Only through the swirling accretion of the last few years of love, positivity, and emotional sunshine–and the many, many, many other too-wonderful-for-mere-words-to-describe beautiful human beings, organizations, professionals, agencies, groups, and personal angels that were in my life–were they able to help me to help myself to put my broken Humpty Dumpty ass back together again.
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And as such, this album is just simply beautiful to listen to.
Lord Xynyx proudly presents, "Megamaser Emissions" for your listening enjoyment. Definitely listen with love. And never, ever give up hope. Thank you for reading and thank you for listening! God bless You All!
Please everyone, take your mental health seriously. Please treat it as importantly as you treat your physical health. And ideally so, even more...
credits
released January 11, 2021
Music on this (demo) EP created, composed, written, and produced as Lord Xynyx.
All music and art by richei bermúdez jr.
European Space Agency. (2017) Hubble Gazes at a Cosmic Megamaser | NASA. www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2016/hubble-gazes-at-a-cosmic-megamaser
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