''Odin'' is an

ambient music Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It u ...

album by

Julian Cope Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side proj ...

, released in 1999. It is Cope's third album of ambient music and his fifteenth solo album overall. The album is a 73-minute-long vocal drone piece interwoven with

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

and is referred to by Cope as “a simultaneously-synthesized parallel-harmonic Breathing Meditation.”"The S.P.A.C.E.R.O.C.K.E.R.’s Guide to Julian Cope"
(Aural Innovations magazine #23, April 2003) It was recorded in one take, as Cope explained, "The preparation of the studio took six hours, but the performance was entirely live like a concert and without overdubs."

Track listing

Personnel

*Julian Cope – vocals, mellotron, keyboards * Thighpaulsandra – producer, recorded by ''(credited as Cliff Cheerio)''Thighpaulsandra
. Brainwashed.com. Retrieved on 21 April 2018. * Lisa Bennett – artwork, design

References

External links

''Odin'' on Discogs.com
1999 albums Julian Cope albums Norse mythology in music Odin {{1990s-electronic-album-stub