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The Sphinx of Imagination
Hypnotica
Manufacturer: Hypnotica
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA8KBE
Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

Intro
Sphinx of Imagination

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Wow..........2006-11-02

This CD is a trip... quite literally. This is the first hypnosis CD I've ever listened to and I didn't really believe it would work, but it does. It's pretty crazy, but fun, and extremely relaxing. Buy this CD immediately. It's amazing.

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jekyll or hyde? metal or electronics?
Clinical, precise and brilliant
perfect blend metal-machine music.
Variety Packed

III: Odyssey of the Mind
Die Krupps
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Seti

ASIN: B000001JTX
Release Date: 1996-03-05

Tracks:

The Last Flood
Isolation
Odyssey Of The Mind
Eggshell
Scent
The Final Option
LCD
Jeckyll Or Hyde
Metamorphosis
Alive
Odyssey Of The Mind
The Final Option
LCD

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring Two Exclusive Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

jekyll or hyde? metal or electronics?.......2001-05-04

'Odyssey of the Mind' maybe was the logical evolution of a band which had begun in the early 80's with a techno-industrial music with similarities with 'DAF' or later Nitzerr Ebb and which from 1991 would develop a kind of metal-industrial; with every album they added more guitars but also they worked the electronic parts better. An example of this is 'The Final Option', which is for me an example of good blending of metal and electronics and their best album ever. 'Odyssey of the Mind' does have some songs which are similar to those of their previous album: 'Metalmorphosis', 'Isolation'... but the album relies more on a metal basis which I let the fans of this type of music rate it; Engler's voice is usually much too typical (does he want to rival Pantera?) and his pose is much too stereotypically heavy-metal. Most of the songs follow a very recognizable pattern: they begin very electronic and then the metal guitars enter the game and the song ends almost forgetting its electronic elements, which are usually put in a second place dominated by the guitars. There're good songs though: 'Last Flood', 'Isolation', 'Scent' or 'Metalmorphosis'; the others are much too metal for me. The real jewel in the record is 'Alive', a very beautiful ballad and one of the best DK's songs ever. Their following album would even envigourate the metal elements leaving the electronics much aside. But new album 'Dekaydence', which features singer Engler in his new side-project sounds more like an evolution from 'The Final Option' as if the two following more-metal albums would have never existed.

Clinical, precise and brilliant.......2000-01-27

The industrial pioneers released one of the albums of the year with this. Minor MTV hit Isolation isn't even the best song, as Eggshell and Metamorphosis will attest. The old industrial/thrash chesnut was taken a step further with 'the german James Hetfield' Jurgen Engler firmly at the helm, planting richly distorted riffs down over pumping industrial drum tracks. Very good, and recommended to people who like heavy music with clarity and intelligence

perfect blend metal-machine music........1999-09-15

krupps-one of the forefathers of industrial music does it once again to push the forefront of technology against the traditional grain of industrial music. Odyssey of the Mind has to be the perfect blend of metal-machine music. look for the new krupps coming this year and jurgen's other project-DKay.com-single released in september 99 sometime.-----TO THE HILT----

Variety Packed.......1999-04-17

I was impressed by Die Krupps varied vocal styles. Each track was distintive and well mixed. This album was my first CD from this band. Oddly enough I had never heard this band before I bought it and I wasn't let down. This was a great disc and I think it is a must have for industrial fans.

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Music in the Right Era of Manipulated Sound
the leading edge, too far out ahead for most to see

Roger Reynolds: The Paris Pieces

Manufacturer: Neuma
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000005VXE
Release Date: 1996-08-01

Tracks:

Odyssey: I. Others
Odyssey: They Come/Different And The Same...
Odyssey: II. Self
Odyssey: What Would I Do Without This World...
Odyssey: III. Inquiry
Odyssey: If I Said, There's A Way Out There,...
Odyssey: Set Listening Level (Softest Moment Here)
Odyssey: IV. Credo
Odyssey: My Way Is In The Sand...

Tracks:

Summer Island
Archipelago
Autumn Island
Fantasy For Pianist

Customer Reviews:

Music in the Right Era of Manipulated Sound.......2006-05-11

Roger Reynolds states 'I believe in as wide a range of musical involvements as is feasible given the reality of life.' Hearing his works requires a lot of preparation on the part of the audience: walking into the pieces cold might otherwise cause such mental confusion, trying to make the whole seem worth its parts, that it is easy to become aurally lost. His musical compositions or amalgams often include text and electronic elements (some critics praise him as an innovator in the use of multi-channel spatial explorations). Born in 1934 in Detroit, MI he is an important American composer whose roots seem to be found in the works of Ives, Varese, and Cage

The problem with Reynolds' works, finely composed though they be, is that they often include texts that really must be comfortably well known to the listener in order to hear the music. And he is in need of editing his longer works to remain within the concentration pattern of even the most sophisticated classical music lover. Point of reference is the first CD of this 2 CD set, an entire CD is devoted to 'Odyssey, an opera in the mind, for soloists, ensemble & computer processed sound' in which the complex texts are both sung and spoken in real time as well as with prerecorded excerpts. The work is performed by the always superb InterContemporain Ensemble with soloists Marie Kobayashi and Philip Larson conducted by David Robertson.

At a recent LA Philharmonic concert Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the World Premiere of 'Illusion', a work commissioned by the orchestra and one meant to explore all of the sound possibilities of this acoustic wonder of a Hall. The piece begins with sounds on speakers in the foyer and steps of the hall and when the audience is seated prerecorded tapes of speakers bounce around the hall giving the text about Agamemnon, Iphigenia and Cassandra and the Greek history of Troy. Then the small ensemble on stage included Agamemnon with three voices (speaker, baritone and cellist!), along with female speaker and clarinet as Iphigenia, and soprano and piccolo as Cassandra! It is an hour-long quasi-opera and mixes acoustical manipulations of spoken word and computer sounds with the whole piece. Complex, mind-boggling, and in desperate need of editing!

The remaining pieces on this recording fit comfortably onto the second CD and are brief and well conceived: 'Summer Island, for oboe & computer generated sound', 'Archipelago, for 32 instruments & computer generated sound', 'Autumn Island for marimba', and 'Fantasy for pianist', each with David Robertson conducting the soloists and the InterContemporain Ensemble.

Stating that Roger Reynolds' music requires work on the part of the audience is in no way a negative statement. Too often we enter a concert or play a recording to be entertained. Reynolds demands we be participants and would that that were the case for all classical music listening, there would be no threat of the extinction of CDs! Food for the soul and the ear is food for the mind. Grady Harp, May 06

the leading edge, too far out ahead for most to see.......2002-01-21

This is invaluable documentation of the electro-acoustic works of Roger Reynolds. The product of time spent at IRCAM, Pierre Boulez' Paris institute, some of the pieces bear a strong resemblance to "Repons," the highest-profile Boulez composition using the state-of-the-art IRCAM technology. This is even less surprising since they were recorded by Boulez' Ensemble Intercontemporain! "Archipelago" was composed in 1982-3, for 32 instruments and 8 tracks of computer generated sound. On hearing a performance, John Cage said to Reynolds "[t]his should keep you busy for the rest of your life," because of its rich complexity. "Summer Island" and "Autumn Island" are spin-offs of "Archipelago," featuring oboe and marimba respectively. "Summer Island" is stunningly beautiful, the easiest piece on the disc to appreciate on first hearing.

"Odyssey, an opera in the mind" (1989-93) is a difficult work, to say the least. I will be listening to it alongside Nono's "Prometeo" for years, I'm sure, plumbing its depths. Featuring text from a poem by Samuel Beckett, Reynolds, believe it or not, uses equations from chaos theory to organize the computer-manupulated vocals, using the lyrical pitch structures of the voices as the basis for sound reorganization. Some pieces, such as Reynolds' string quartets ("Coconino," recorded by the Arditti Quartet), I find engaging and compelling despite my patent failure to completely understand the compositions' structures. With "Odyssey" I am not as compelled, and hence the 4 stars instead of 5. I remain convinced that Roger Reynolds is one of our most under-recognized contemporary composers. I only wish that all those who think Glass or Gorecki is the epitome of the current composer could hear Reynolds' work!

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Odyssey into Tripe
Outstanding !!! I recomend this. 5 Stars
Best of the bunch
surprisingly great!

Odyssey into the Mind's Eye
Livgren
Manufacturer: Renaissance
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007O04
Release Date: 1997-10-07

Tracks:

Oceanic Celebration
Unstoppable
Out of Step
Traveler [Vocal Version]
Volatile Planet
Empowering [Alternate Version]
Utopian Dream
Credence Lent
One Dark World
Empowering
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Album Description

This is the digitally re-mastered version (2004) of Kerry Livgren's Original Soundtrack to the Computer Animation Epic "Odyssey into the Mind's Eye"

Album Description

1996 album by Kansas' original guitarist & the soundtrack tothe video of the same name that Sony released & shipped gold. For this fourth volume in the series, Kerry was asked to lay down tracks of what's best described as new age jazz rock. Very Pink Floydish, yet progressive & atmospheric, andat times very rockin'. 14 cuts total. A Numavox release.

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Worst of the bunch.......2004-07-10

I've been a fan of the minds eye videos since the beginning, but this one is a huge dissapointment. There's nothing on here that is very impressive, the music is bad and the DVD production is horrible. The minds eye series used to be cutting edge computer graphics, but this one seem to be amature computer graphics produced by amatures.

Odyssey into Tripe.......2004-06-14

The only two reasons you would consider viewing this are because you're a fan of the Mind's Eye series or interested in CGI in general. Take note: it doesn't live up to either standard. Don't purchase it, even used -- in fact, don't even rent it, or borrow it from a friend that may have been duped into owning it. If you are forced, or yet choose, to watch this, mute the television and play a deep ambient soundtrack instead. The only quote from the back cover which can be trusted is "Strap yourself in..." You'll have to if you intend on watching through the end.

Both the musical score and the CGI are themselves inept -- taken together, even worse.

The "camera" motion, when not stuttering behind moving objects, is too clinical, you can almost feel the programmer's commands... "turn POV left, stop. Pan up, stop. Zoom, stop." The content suffers the same fate of poor production. For instance, the first vignette, 'Oceanic Celebration,' is simply a montage of marine settings. They've taken this collection and given it a title and not much else -- sort of like the dolphin screensaver theme you can buy from an office supply store. Some of the other segments at least have a little story, and 'Out of Step' has a little lesson, but even then you're subject to the amateur editing -- quick and redundant cuts between scenes and camera angles.

The quality of the CGI itself is underwhelming, not bad, but not good either. But let's say you're willing to watch this anyways. You will still have to deal with the soundtrack. The cover quotes "Powered by a soaring original score from KERRY LIVGREN, founder and former guitarist of legendary rock group Kansas." Right there you know you're holding a winner. I suppose some of the tracks aren't horrible, but taken in context with the content, this is just a marketing concept gone awry. The rock score not only clashes with the whole idea of CGI, but it doesn't even match the animation in each piece. (Correction: there is a single minute of synchronicity, with the festive hammer in 'Out of Step' -- but its little theme is so jarring from the rest of the piece that you shake your head anyways.) That's bad enough, and then you get to the vocal tracks with 'One Dark World' and 'Aspen Moon' -- these are perhaps the only redeeming value of this odyssey, which at its worst moments will at least finally make you laugh.

Outstanding !!! I recomend this. 5 Stars.......2004-03-11

Graphics were great!! There were (I believe) 11 tracks, and each track was different in theme, which added spice to the DVD. The entire musical theme was done in a rock musical format, with several tracks (2 or 3) actually had singing in it by Kerry Livgren (who was a member of the group: Kansas). I felt that the music went extremely well with the graphics!! It was very upbeat, not radical or harsh in any way, and there was very little singing in it - just music that helps sweep you away with the beautiful graphics. If you dont like Rock, you may not like this DVD, but I still recomend giving it a try. Some tracks featured spacey worlds, one had dinosaurs, spaceships, underwater scene with a dolphin being chased by a sea monster, tropical islands, robots, and just far out computer animation! Highly recomended - I'd say that this is the best Computer Graphics DVD I've purchased (out of 6 so far).

Best of the bunch.......2002-09-13

I have most all of the CG animations. Beyond and Gate are good as well but this one has the most moving graphics with the best sounds. Very, very cool. If you like this kind of thing at all, Into The Minds Eye is a definite MUST HAVE !!!!

surprisingly great!.......2002-03-15

This album is one of the best things KERRY LIVGRIN has done, with or without KANSAS. Most of it is instrumental. The surpris-
ing thing, or one of the surprising things, is LIVGRIN's guitar
playing, which has never sounded better, especially his lead
guitar playing. This is the most hard rock oriented album that
I've heard him do. Another surprising thing is how good these
songs are. My favorite songs include the album's opening cut
"OCEANIC CELEBRATION"; a very heavy progressive rocker with
a very catchy guitar riff and some outstanding drumming and
CREDENCE LENT and UTOPIAN DREAM. What's nice is that it doesn't
sound a bit like his work with KANSAS and it sure beats anything
they've done since he left. A very enjoyable progressive hard rock album!

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Dazzling Heavy Metal

Nailed to the Shade
Mind Odyssey
Manufacturer: Jvc Victor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JAFT
Release Date: 1999-02-24

Tracks:

Overture - Ascending To Heaven
Nailed To The Shade
In The Dark
Gone
No Reilgion
Apollo 13
Confide In You
Not With Me
Memories
St.George And The Dragon

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: St George and the Dragon (Toto Cover).

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Dazzling Heavy Metal.......1999-12-20

Despite a rather cheap and dodgy looking album cover, this is top quality heavy metal. The album is both progressive and varied and is a little like listening to a 'best riffs & solos compilation!' The guitar lines and songs don't have a definitive thread that combines them and their appears to be elements of Vai, Bettencourt, Pantera, Dream Theater, Ozzy and Dio as well as virtually every other competent metal band. The variety of songs make for an interesting and (suprisingly) up-beat progressive metal album that benefits from competent musicianship and melodic vocals. The only criticism I could give is that the album is a little short, and with catchy songs like these seems to be over far too quickly. This is one of my favourite heavy metal albums and although not scoring heavily on the originality stakes it does restore my faith in 'flashy' guitar bands.

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III/Odyssey of the Mind
Die Krupps
Manufacturer: Mfs
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000AYFX

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Nailed to the Shade
Mind Odyssey
Manufacturer: GUN Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RRKYUM

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Track list: 1. Overture-Ascending To Heaven 2. Nailed To The Shade 3. In The Dark 4. Gone 5. No Religion 6. Apollo 13 7. Confide In You 8. Not With Me 9. Memories

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III: Odyssey of the Mind
Die Krupps
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008EWPA
Release Date: 1996-03-05

Tracks:

Last Flood
Isolation
Odyssey of the Mind
Eggshell
Scent
Final Option
LCD
Jeckyll or Hyde
Metalmorphosis
Alive
Odyssey of the Mind [Bonus Mix][*]
Final Option [Bonus Mix][*]
LCD [Bonus Mix][*]

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III: Odyssey of the Mind
Die Krupps
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DER73
Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

Last Flood
Isolation
Odyssey of the Mind
Eggshell
Scent
Final Option
LCD
Jeckyll or Hyde
Metalmorphosis
Alive

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Signs
Mind Odyssey
Manufacturer: B.Mind Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RRID7I

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Track list: 1. Fountain Of Music 1:32 2. Men Of No Return 5:25 3. Golden Age 5:55 4. In The Picture 7:31 5. Slaves Of The Desert 6:56 6. Born Bastards 4:56 7. Welcome Demon 6:54 8. Signs 6:59 9. The Liar 5:25

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