1. First formed as the Lopez Sisters (Carmen, Lillian, and Louise) in 1968, Carmen dropped out and Tony Reynolds (a Manilla native) joined to form Odyssey. After performances in New York clubs, they hit it big in 1977 with the soft disco cuts "Native New Yorker" and "Easy Come, Easy Go." Their music had a subtle Caribbean feel, and while their U.S. hits soon dried up, they had a few more hits in the U.K. before the group fell apart.

2. Odyssey was a US Underground Psychedelic Rock band from the 60's/70's.Lion Records have unearthed a forgotten classic in Setting Forth, the only album released by New York's Odyssey. Well released is hardly the word, less than 100 copies were originally pressed and even if one wanted to buy a copy at the time it was nearly impossible to find as it came in a plain white sleeve - no one could decide on the graphics! Consequently, the original 1969 album is one of the ten rarest US psychedelic albums. The five piece band comprised founders Louis Yovino on lead vocals and Vincent Kusy on keyboards with Dennis Pennaga (guitar), Ray Lesch (bass) and John Willems (drums) completing the line-up. Signed to Organic Productions, part of the Richmond Organization, the label were completely at a loss as how to produce and market a rock band. As a result they provided a minimal budget (the reason why so few copies were pressed as most of the available money had been spent on the recording) and allocated a senior producer to the project whose main claim to fame was that he had produced How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?! Having supported many major headlining acts in their time (at one memorable gig they supported Procol Harum and totally confused the audience by playing their own tripped out version of A Whiter Shade Of Pale which the headline act didn't include in their set!) the band called it a day in late 1974 with several members reuniting in the more classically progressive band Cathedral.

The sound is typical sixties, rightly described in the album's sleeve notes (written by keyboardist Vinny Kusy) as "the quintessential dictionary definition of the New York brand of sixties psychedelia - strong harmonic vocals, heavy swirling organ and infused with inspired fuzz guitar". Angel Dust gives Iron Butterfly's In A Gadda Da Vida a run for its money in the heavy riff stakes while elsewhere tracks like Church Yard and the excellent cover of Janis Ian's Society's Child are the equal of anything on the first Vanilla Fudge album. The dominant keyboards on You're Not There give the track a feel akin to early Deep Purple while Denky's Boogie, an unrehearsed and largely improvised number recorded in one-take, embellishes a standard 12-bar blues riff with the psychedelic trappings of the time.

For fans of the late sixties psychedelic scene or those interested in delving into the roots of classic progressive rock, Setting Forth is as good as a place to start as any. A welcome addition to my collection, certainly as good as most, and better than several, of the more lauded 'influential' bands of the era.

3. Odyssey is an eurodance project from Germany created and produced by Martin Koppehele and Giorgio Koppehele. It featured the vocalist Lisa Cash.

Odyssey released several singles such as "Riding On A Train", "Talk To Me" or "Move Your Body".

4. Odyssey is the name Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Vangelis) worked with, when accompanied by guitarist Silver Koulouris (ex-Aphrodite's Child) and vocalist/songwriter Robert Fitoussi (aka F.R. David).

5. Odyssey is an electronica/amient project from Polish electronic musican Tomasz Pauszek (known also as RND).

6. Odyssey is a progressive metal piece from Sweden, consisting of no-one less than Dan Swanö (Nightingale / Edge of Sanity) and Lord K. (The Project Hate / Deadmarch / Dark Funeral).

7. Odyssey was a brazilian hardcore band that ended in 2005 and released two albuns "eleven reasons to live, eleven reasons to die" and "fighters"

8. Odyssey is the new name for the former band Oracle.

9. Odyssey is the solo band for Iced Earth's drummer Brent Smedley, and his brother and former Oracle guitarist Kent Smedley

10. Atmospheric drum & bass producer on Good Looking and 720 Records. Odyssey started producing music at the age of 14 using 4 track tape machines, guitars and drum machines. At 18 he landed a job as a recording engineer at a commercial recording studio. From there he entered the world of electronic music. He soon joined forces with Andy Smith and formed the Sunrise Society which went on to produce a number of Detroit Techno style EP's on London's Pacific Records. In 96 Simon went solo and started producing Drum'n'Bass under the name of Odyssey. His first D&B track Expressions was released on 720 records/ Logical Progression 2. Expressions quickly gained anthem status being played to death by the likes of Fabio, Bukem and Blame.

While working at the recording studio Simon engineered for numerous artists covering a broad spectrum of musical styles, one group in particular, an African percussion band, inspired Simon to learn to play congas and percussion. This in turn, led to the production of a track called Ritual. Ritual was a fusion of D&B and manic African percussion which crossed over into all areas of the D&B scene being played by Blame, Goldie, Doc Scott and the rest of the MetalHeadz crew. Simon also produced more jazz influenced downtempo tracks for Good Looking Record's sub labels such as Earth and Cooking Records.

11. Odyssey is a folk-rock band from Romania.