XOR by Eugene Iodine

XOR

XOR is the third part of the ‘2020 series’ after Epoch Change and Wild Album. The transition to the Other Side and the Mystical Tram Ride take the hero to a kind of Purgatory. This is not hell. The hero is pure enough in soul, he’s not deserving a trip to hell. But everyone had some misdeeds, this is within the normal range, and the gloomy and cheerful Halloween purgatory has never harmed anyone (maybe). Here the hero communicates with the entities of the Other World, and they, in turn, communicate with him. There is a mutually beneficial exchange of strange flows of information. Everyone does their job, their mission, their role. This sluggish schizophrenic pseudo-nightmare is a bit depressing. It is best illustrated by the sequence of intricate brown-marble labyrinths of ancient Doom. And all this must be gone through because it is necessary: for Purification. At the end of the naughtmare, a Guardian awaits the hero, who will either utter an approving roar, signifying the successful completion of the procedure for strengthening the hero’s psyche, or silently devour him.

Composition ideas: 2020-21; recorded: 2020-21, 2023.

Eugene Iodine
December 23, 2023

P.S. The correct spelling of the album title is XOR (three capital letters). Writing in the form of Xor is caused by the imperfection of some music platforms, their ... formatting rules and brainless auto-correction nullifying the artistic intent.
XOR is a funny letter combination that can be seen on engineering calculators.

And if Pulp:
1) a soft, wet, shapeless mass of material;
2) in fruit or vegetables, the pulp is the soft part inside the skin;
3) vascular tissue filling the interior cavity and root canals of a tooth;
4) (Mining) pulverized ore mixed with water;
5) popular or sensational writing that is regarded as being of poor quality,

Then:

XOR (exclusive OR): a Boolean operator working on two variables that has the value one if one but not both of the variables is one.

Life is hard. Heavy.