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There are several musicians/bands called Cygnus. 1. Phillip Washington is an electronic musician based in Texas. Releases atmospheric and scientific electro on labels such as CPU and Biosoft Records. 2. Heath Moerland (Sick Llama/Barf Thoth/Fag Tapes) and Glen Morren (Night Movie) playing weird, ultra-crude jams, in the vast no man's land between Michigan style noise and LAFMS oddity. 3. Paolo Rozzotto's idea of an extended musical concept defines Cygnus as a band of diverse genres, such as progressive, symphonic metal, thrash, neoclassical, classical, etc. The ensemble of tonal and atonal composition, under the rules of maximalism (created by Paolo Rozzotto),...

Heart of Cygnus impressed many with 2007's debut 'Utopia,' a genuinely delightful and completely unexpected work of American progressive metal. With this years 'Over Mountain Under Hill,' a brilliant and nearly flawless work, Heart of Cygnus have become the future and bright hope of the genre in America. Unfortunately, it seems their greatest admiration and recognition comes from overseas. Let's try to change that. 'Over Mountain Under Hill' is imaginative and breathtaking in scope and presence. Jeff Lane and Jim Nahikian travel through the progressive musical realms of those past like King Crimson to those present like Dream Theater. From...

The brainchild of Eye-Q label-head Matthias Hoffman Cygnus X has released the trance album Hypermetrical in 1995 for the Eye-Q label. Best known for the trance classic: Superstring. Cygnus X was a trance project named after the famous X-ray binary Cygnus X-1. It began as a collaboration between Matthias Hoffmann & Ralf Hildenbeutel (who later left). Other projects of the pair include A.C. Boutsen, Brainchild and Dee.FX. Their sound is extending from hard to ambient trance. Their first release was the well known Superstring in 1993, but they enjoyed wide success with their trance classic The Orange Theme (1994). Their...