Ganymede

Ganymede

Song Information

Artist: 玄武 (Genbu)
BPM: 72-82
Genre: Esoteric Slowcore
VJ: HES
First Appeared On: AC DistorteD
Length: 2:06

Lyrics

None.

Remixes / Song Connections

• One of the 4 Cardinal Gate songs.

• A long version of this song appeared on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion CD (on CS DistorteD's Special edition) along with Contract, waxing and wanding, Kachoufusetsu, and Nageki no Ki.

Trivia

• In William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, the character Rosalind disguises herself as a deceitful boy named Ganymede. The song's odd speed (plus its changes) and its deceitful note chart may be an homage to the play.
• This version of the Cardinal Gate songs is the slowest of the four beasts.
• This song features a green colored skin.
• Genbu is believed to be Wac's alias. Perhaps the most apparent evidence for this is Wac's very distinctive energetic, longwinded writing style being used in the song notes on Konami's web site, as well as the song name (sharing the name of a moon of Jupiter) following Wac's series of songs named after astronomical bodies. CARDINAL GATE conclusion (the CD that comes with the special edition of IIDX DistorteD CS) proved this by crediting him as composer.
• Ganymede is also the name of one of Jupiter's Galileo moons, and the song may refer to it's lonely and desolate nature.
• The video features a green Armored Core style robot-like character as the embodiment of Genbu.
• In greek mythology Ganymede was the most beautiful man who ever lived, the god Zeus kidnaps him with very large birds and he lives out his life in Olympus.
• Genbu is a Chinese god that is a turtle.

Music Production Info

I've love to present this. It is the "Kametarou Kameda", which is themed by the solitary military motif.
It isn't twirling of happy. There is no room in this world for joy. It was after the events of the tournament end of the "FANTASY", with their thermal singing, stating that it is done on the ring (current event on the news).

"Are you the turtle? The stupid turtle without any thoughts?" That is the receiving request this time, with my body and mind becoming that embodiment. But living in this body was unreasonable.

Video Production Info

Currently unavailable.