N E W SFebruary 2007 A lot of people keep asking on what album they can find the track 'Chinese Waters', that randomly is shown on the dutch tv-station RTV Noord-Holland. 'Chinese Waters' is one of the new tracks that has been written for our new album. Since we're still in the process of writing the new material it's hard to say when the new album will be released. As for now we hope to do this before the end of this year.
December 2006 RTV Noord-Holland started to broadcast pieces from the live recording, they did in their tv-studio, since December 12th on both of their channels. One of these channels (north-channel) is also available in Europe via the Astra1 satellite. they will continiue to do this for the next coming 12 months. Due to this exposure and the enormous response from viewers the album 'Impression' ran out of stock. We're waiting for the new delivery which will be expected in the 2nd half of January. Also the full photo session of the RTV Noord-Holland recording is now online. And don't forget to visit our new guestbook!
July 2006 On July 29th the band spended a whole day in the TV-studio's of RTV-NoordHolland. The band staged live in the Amsterdam studio fully equiped, and backed up by a fabulous lightshow by Michael Moorthaemer, and large projection screen in the back of the stage displaying mood films and logo projection. The idea and producer of this project is Arjan van Leeuwen, who is a long time friend of the band and we believe that he did a great job at it!
First a detailed recording was filmed of 4 selected songs, which were played several times, for director Jeroen de Graaf and crew the opportunity to get some cool multi-shots for later editing. That same night Odyssice performed one and half hour set in front of a small selected group of friends and family, recorded live and non-stop by the RTV-NoordHolland crew for a possible future release. As encore there was a surprise guest appearance of Rianne Kosterman on bass (Peter's 15 year old daughter), who did a wonderfull performance on Anuradhapura. Tracks played: * these titles were also the 4 selected songs We would like to thank the RTV-NoordHolland crew for their help, patience, humor, profession, hospitality and surely for the opportunity. Pictures can be found here.
June 2006 The band is invited to perform in the TV-studio's of RTV-NoordHolland.
Right now the band finished working on 4 new songs which is as good as 30-minutes of music. Titels for these 4 songs is still in progress. The idea is to compose 2-3 more songs and than carefully plan the recording-sessions for a new album.
November 2005 Well... this time it took us more than a year... The band took a kind of sabattical and also our provider decided to move servers which, for us, lead to some upload and e-mail problems. But... we're back with a complete re-styled website. Somewhat simplyfied, but not less. The good news is; Odyssice is still alive! After a two year sabattical, which included the search for a new bass-player, moving to a new rehearsal-room and re-constructing it. We're happy to announce the arrival of our new bass-player Peter Kosterman, he joined the band at the very end of 2004 and worked his way through the excisting material. Now the band is working on new material for a new release in 2006.
July 2004 Despite the news the last time we updated this website, we now have to accept the fact that Odyssice is still without bass-player. We're still on the search for the right person to fit in. In the mean time the work on new songs is still in progress, there is already a lot on stuff, but the work-out still needs to be done.
June 2003 Well we're back again! Sorry it took us so long, but circumstances forced us. But we're happily to say that 'Moondrive plus' is finally released and is available in the recordstore or through this website. After finishing up the final details in october last year, our record company Cyclops decided to wait with releasing the album after the seasoning holidays. Last year was a strange year for us. At the very end of 2001 Jeroen decided, due to problems at home, to leave the band. But after a divorce and some months he got to the conclusion that he made a mistake by leaving the band and rejoined them again. Sadly enough at that piont Pascal had decided that it was his time too to leave the band. At this piont the band decided to take it slow and have a kind of break from it all, just to review the whole situation and start over again fresh. Thanks to the situation Jeroen was going through, he was able to write more than 50 minutes of fresh new music, of which surely a great deal will end up on the next album. But before even thinking of a new album Odyssice has one difficult quest to conquer: Finding a new Bass-Player. Even idea's of trying something with vocals was talked about. So if you are a bass-player and/or you sing, you are of semi-profesional quality and you live in The Netherlands, please contact Jeroen. Only serious reactions, please. And maybe we'll invite you for a audition.
16 May 2002 The computer crash destroyed all of our previous work on the multimedia part of Moondrive plus. We had a little hope of recovering the data, but all was lost. The movies and live tracks have to be edited again all from the beginning. This is why it takes so long and we hope that you (the Odyssice fans and escpecially Malcom Parker) can be a little more patient. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we will do our best!
March 2002 We have changed the layout of the website. It is now easier to navigate through this site. New photographs taken at 'Hellendoorn' and 'de Boerderij' last year, have been added. A test example from Moon Drive Plus is nearly completed. The project was delayed because of a computer crash and some other technical problems. After testing the test example, the CD-Rom will be produced.
Februari 2002 Sorry for the long awaited update... I hope to keep it up to date from now on. We are still working on the Moon Drive Plus album. It is slowly progressing. The release date is still uncertain yet, but we will keep you informed.
Oktober 2001 The performance on October 26th in 'De Boerderij' Zoetermeer was a huge succes. Over 400 visitors wittness Odyssice perform eight of the new songs from 'Impression' and three 'oldies'. It was a great honour to open for The Flower Kings for the second time. NEWSFLASH! - Odyssice will perform together with fellow dutchband Salmon on the SympHel Double-Concert in Hellendoorn on November 23rd. Venue: De Lantaarn, doors open: 21.00hrs, Odyssice: 21.30hrs, Salmon: 23.00hrs. Pre-sales FL 20,- and at the door FL 25,-.
August 2001 Plans are made to re-release 'Moon Drive' on the Cyclops label. The re-release will include besides 'Moon Drive' two bonus tracks and a multimedia track. The two bonus tracks are: 'Losing Her (from the 'Exposion 1988' LP) and 'Powerloc' live at the Hedon-Zwolle 1998. The multimedia part of the CD will contain band info, biography, soundfiles, loads of pictures, demo's and videoclip. The CD-Rom track will run on Windows platform only. If and/or when the release 'Moon Drive Plus' will be released can't be confirmed at this moment. We will keep you posted.
Juli 2001 Odyssice will perform together with The Flower Kings on friday october 26th at 'De Boerderij' in Zoetermeer (NL). More info and dates will follow!
Januari 2001 The start of rehearsals for the forthcoming gigs took place on the second week of this month. All 'Moondrive' and 'Impression' tracks are schedualed for perfomance. A 100-minute setlist is prepared, including 'Powerloc'. There has been contact with a professional light-crew to back-up the performances with an amazing light-show.
September 2000 Finally, three and a half years after 'Moondrive' Odyssice has returned with a stunning 70-minute album called 'Impression'. The new album will be released on November 1st 2000 on the English label Cyclops. The album contains the studio versions of 'Scream' and 'Senkan' which had their debut in previous live performances. The album also includes the sensitive 'Children Of The Cloud', the triumphic 'Olympus', the overwelming 'A Prophets Dream' and many more beautiful new songs. Check the cd-releases in the profile section.
August 2000 The artwork has been finished at last! It took a while but the end result, done by Double2 (also sleeves for o.a. Kane) is stunning. It is send to England where the CD and artwork will be printed.
March 2000 Brussels is the new destination of Odyssice for the mastering of the forthcoming album. The mastering is being done at Electric City by Uwe & Alan (known for their work with Krezip).
Februari 2000 Odyssice returns to the New Spitsbergen Studio to mix the album. Twelve new songs were recorded but it's still unknown if all the songs will end up the new album. Assistence with the mixing is done by Willem Coenen, also owner of the New Spitsbergen Studio.
Januari 2000 During the first week of the new millennium we find Odyssice in the recording studio working on their new album. The recording is taking place in the New Spitsbergen Studio (famous for the Herman Brood album 'Saturday Night') in the north Netherlands. |
