Your Majesty

August 9, 2024

Track List

  1. Julia Verne
  2. Vampire State
  3. The Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
  4. Oracle
  5. Breakers of Dawn
  6. Your Majesty
  7. When We Take The Sky
  8. Overboard
  9. Venus Fly
  10. Merry-Go-Round
  11. Charity Bizarre
  12. Mister Mirror

Credits

Music by Michael Guy Bowman
Drums by Bijan Eghtesady
Accordian by Bonnie Maddox (track 8)
Cover art by Alice Hu

About

When the future is uncertain it can be easy to romanticize the past. In fairy tales we imagine that the world was once a more beautiful place where magic explained the mysteries of life. The probing tools of science were once the simmering cauldrons of alchemy. We trusted our leaders completely as the righteous defenders of a higher order which placed ourselves at the center of the universe.

We are tempted to return to this mythic era. The epic tales of old generations bewilder us with stories of glorious quests and lives of adventure. All of it seems to be disappearing just beyond the horizon of a new world that has become petrified with frightful complexity. We treasure the artifacts that remain from simpler times, believing in vain that they might unlock hidden entrances to unspoiled realms.

Though the arrow of time pushes us ceaselessly beyond the dominion of our half-remembered past, we hold onto a belief that we are meant for something more than the cold reality that we face - too obvious, too impersonal. We imagine this is only a dark age between the reign of two great kingdoms, the next greater than the first. It is a seductive belief, and potentially dangerous.

And yet, occasionally, we must indulge these fantasies. We romanticize the past because we remember once that we were able to romanticize the future. To permit legendary origins is to hope for a destiny beyond our crude surroundings. We have the choice to see life as a brief epitaph or as the unfolding chapters of a grand saga. Which way will you turn?

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