Cygnus Rock Band - Winter"s Night (Yggdrasil)

A beautiful ballad full of emotions, the first song on the album where Deneb shows his singing qualities.

And it's not everything, the song is full of gems!

Let me guess, you haven't even noticed them 😒

It starts with a beautiful, quiet acoustic guitar theme.

Guitar cam?... Pretty please?... Maybe?... One day?... 🥺 This theme is so beautiful, it would deserve to have it as an educational kind of video... 💓

To get back to more serious and turning off my puppy eyes, somehow I have an impression that the theme of this song is very special. For my ears it has a kind of medieval flavor, that kind, that little pinch of this spice which makes it stand out of the other songs. And again it's probably only my ears, but the vocal theme, the humane voice makes a very interesting contrast with this theme, but for the whole time these two stay in harmony.

Yes. These two do make this song's atmosphere and sound as if a medieval bard would be singing it. 

And this already on their first Viking album!

The chorus brings the first massive amount of beauty: string instruments join the humane voice along with a gentle and polite percussion. The acoustic guitar is silent, it humbly allows the beauty to reach its fullness.

And it remains like that.

The symphonic orchestra holds the humane voice on its shoulders, the acoustic guitar is escorting them, holding their hand and Deneb's mellow, warm baritone covers the listener like the soft, healing blanket of snow does the sleeping earth and its plants on a dark winter night.

The solo is full of little gems. Keep your ears and heart open, dear listener, because you will find a lot of percussions hiding here and there. 

This is a quiet little song, dear Reader. 

That sort which can easily make you flatter yourself into the illusion about being this "oh-so-beautiful-ballad-makes-me-shed-tears-because-I'm-a-[CENSORED]" 

sorry, this was originally a very nasty indicative, but I made someone a promise earlier that I would be nice, so it's better to hide it

believe me, it's better this way

but if you think that this is not more than some sentimental ballad, then you're more wrong than you would ever think.

This quiet acoustic song is a masterpiece. Deeply underrated and misunderstood

just like most Cygnus-songs 😒

and while being full of hidden gems, these are all, or almost all overlooked.

Obviously I can't change the average music listener and yell into the ear of each of you out there to use your brains, being there, grown on the upper end of your spine. It would be useless anyway.

So instead I turn on my badass elite diamond VIP grin and hover away knowing that I'm aware of what kind of beauty these wonderful Colombians, Deneb and Ruxx

and not just them, because Jota and Cami have joined them for this song, this makes it all even more special!

have put into my hands. 💘

And not just that, but I can rub this beauty all over my entire body and it won't wear out or deteriorate, and I will never run out of it. It's with me, always, forever, until my very last day. And who knows, maybe even beyond that.

After the solo the chorus returns once more, but the most beautiful - or one of the most beautiful - part of the song is the outro. It's a simple run by the acoustic guitar, but it feels like a kiss on the forehead after making love. Everything is in there. The love, the beauty, the rejoice, the gratitude and the togetherness.

Listen to it. Not just once. Open your ears, open your heart. Focus on the beauty. It's all there.

And you even get the lyrics, too.