Odyssey (Yngwie Malmsteen album)

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Odyssey
Studio album by Yngwie Malmsteen

Publication
(s)

1988

Label (s) Polydor

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Hard rock / neoclassical metal

Title (number)

12

running time

50min 37sec

occupation

production

Jeff "Björn" Glixman and Yngwie Malmsteen

Studio (s)

Cherokee Los Angeles

chronology
Trilogy
(1986) 		Odyssey Trial by Fire
(1989)

Odyssey is the fourth and most successful and commercial album to date (number 40 on the Billboard charts ) by Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen . It was released in March 1988. Already with the third singer in four albums, Joe Lynn Turner (from 1980 to 1983 Rainbow , 1989-1992 Deep Purple ), Malmsteen managed one of his most radio-compatible songs with Heaven Tonight .

The twelve songs on the album are influenced on the one hand by progressive rock and heavy metal of the 1970s , on the other hand the album sounds like 80s melodic hard rock. Stylistically, the album sounds due to the ex-Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner and due to Malmsteen's strong influence of Ritchie Blackmore after the Rainbow albums released from 1981 to 1986 (also with Joe Lynn Turner) and Russ Ballard , whose song Since You've Been Gone Malmsteen covered with Alctrazz. Bob Daisley was also the bass player for Rainbow.

The album contains three instrumentals :

  • Bite the Bullet , which is a short intro to Riot In the Dungeons .
  • Memories , the outro of the entire album. This little acoustic instrumental comes from the intro of the 1980 demo "Black Magic Suite".
  • Krakatau , a six-minute long song that contains many of the themes used by Malmsteen in concerts in the "Triology Suite Op.5". Krakatau partly comes from the song of the 1980 demo "Black Magic Suite".

The up-tempo piece Rising Force contains a solo part that was already included in the demo from 1980 on the song "Merlin's Castle". The rhythm parts are partly from the song "Voodoo Nights", which was also on this demo. "Rising Force" is the only song on the album that he repeatedly plays at concerts. On the 2001 Yngwie Malmsteen tribute album "A Guitar Odyssey: Tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen", "Rising Force" is the only song that is covered by this album. The band paying the tribute is Evergrey from Sweden.

According to Malmsteen's statements, he is the least satisfied with "Odyssey" because it is the only disc that he did not produce alone.

The album "Odyssey" is next to the first album "Rising Force" one of the two solo albums by Yngwie Malmsteen, which are repeatedly mentioned as a representation of his style. Only the Alcatrazz album "No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll" is also mentioned.

The album Odyssey was transcribed for guitar by Joff Jones. This means that the vocal line is only available in notes and lyrics and all guitar parts are in notes and tablature.

Track list

  1. Rising Force ** - 4:25
  2. Hold On ** - 5:11
  3. Heaven Tonight * - 4:06
  4. Dreaming (Tell Me) * - 5:19
  5. Bite the Bullet * - 1:36
  6. Riot in the Dungeons * - 4:22
  7. Deja Vu * - 4:17
  8. Crystal Ball ** - 4:55
  9. Now Is the Time ** - 4:34
  10. Faster Than the Speed ​​of Light * - 4:30
  11. Krakatau * - 6:08
  12. Memories * - 1:14

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Booklet of the album Odyssey 1988
  2. ↑ The Guitar Revelation - Factory / No.1 Event Magazine Hamburg 2000 - "War To End All Wars" Tour
  3. ↑ a b German "Guitar" special edition 2004 "50 Years of Fender Stratocaster" p.52
  4. ^ "Blackmore & Malmsteen" English-language "Guitar" September 1995 p.168
  5. ↑ Alcatrazz - Album Live Sense - 1984 - Track number 7
  6. ↑ Long Live Rock 'N' Roll Rainbow 1978
  7. ^ Final Vinyl Rainbow 1986
  8. ↑ a b The demo is published on the 2002 album "The Genesis" by Yngwie Malmsteen
  9. ^ "Trial By Fire" 1989 - Track 8 on the CD Version 2: 01-2: 35
  10. ↑ Both songs in this demo were released on the 2002 albums "Birth Of The Sun" by Rising Force and "The Genesis" by Yngwie Malmsteen
  11. ↑ "Trial By Fire" on the video 1 song of the concert at about 3:38 am - was not taken over on the album of the same name. from 1989
  12. ^ Concert in Atlanta on March 18, 2001 with Jørn Lande
  13. ↑ Mini EP "I Can't Wait" Live Version with Mike Vescera, track No. 3 from 1999
  14. ↑ "LIVE !!" 1999 with Mats Leven
  15. ^ "A Guitar Odyssey: Tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen" 2001 Title 11
  16. ↑ The stressed guitar hero p. 62 Marcus Bard
  17. ↑ "Masters Of Rock Guitar" by Peter Fischer (student of GIT ) p.119 AMA-Verlag
  18. ^ Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Odyssey - 1990 - Authentic Transcriptions With Notes & Tablature - HP Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

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