Odyssey - The Greatest Tale

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: December 14, 2005
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Musea
• ASIN: B000E3LF5W
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #408,461 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Of Longings, Suitors, Deities And Quests…

2. El Regreso - The Return

3. At The Court Of Alkinoos

4. From Ismarus To The Land Of Death (I. Ismarus, Land Of The Cicones/II. Seventeen Days Of Open Sea/III. The Land Of The Lotus Eaters/IV. The Land Of The Cyclops/V. The Island Of Aeolus & The Land Of Laestrygonians/VI. Circe's Island/VII. The Land Of Death)

5. Minds Of Mortal Men - Meander Tales

6. Sulle Ali Del Sogno - Odissea: Libri XIV, XV, XVI

7. Chapter VII (I. Hecatombe/II. Book XVII - Odysseus Arrives At The Palace/III. Book XVIII - The Suitors Torment Odysseus/IV. Book XIX - The Beggar Meets Penelope/V. Parnasus)

8. Etranger En Sa Demeure

9. Chapter IX

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Odyssey, May 15, 2006

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J. Lindholm - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Odyssey - The Greatest Tale (Audio CD)

It?s obvious that some people don?t know what beautiful prog is. This project is a very fine and nice work from several prog bands but the best of them is deffinetly Glass Hammer. I don?t hear anything to complain about in those vocals. The work is a very intresting and gives a good view over some more and less known progrock bands of the world.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Prog Rock, May 15, 2006

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P. Schumacher (atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Odyssey - The Greatest Tale (Audio CD)

This 3-CD set contains works by nine bands from all over--Nathan Mahl (Canada), Simon Says (Sweden), XII Alfonso (France), Tempano (Venezuela), C.A.P. (Italy), Glass Hammer (US), and others.

Each band plays over 20 minutes, adding up to nearly 4 hours.

Most are superb.

The weakest, for me, is Glass Hammer (which I am beginning to think of as Gas Hammer). Their instrumentals are all right; but as always the vocals suffer from bloat. (Hint to Babb and Schendel: never, EVER use the word GLOW-REE again.) Even so, their vocals here are better than sometimes, and the project seems to have inspired them. This shows that with work they can rise to be a prog band of second rank.

The rest of the bands are simply spectacular.

XII Alfonso even has snippets of what sounds like Tibetal Monks growling chants.

All of the instruments are 70s era (mellotron, Moog), for coherence and that vintage sound.

One critic was put off by C.A.P.'s over-emoting and talking through the vocals; but I love it. Seems perfectly appropriate.

This is a great way to sample Prog bands you may not have heard of.