Voyage 34 - Porcupine Tree

Voyage 34 is an incoherent transcript which illustrates a 'phantasmagoria of fear, terror, grief and finally breakdown'. This journey has been compressed down and the recording begins exactly one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated in LSD. We follow Brian, who has never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips, but on Voyage 34... he had met his match and his emotions have been captured and presented to us in the form of a spacey, psychedelic, progressive soundscape. Perhaps one of the best concept pieces of all time, Voyage 34 is split up into four levels and there is frequent commentary on Brian's thoughts, feelings and state of mind, all ...  Read the complete review

“... grief, exultation, and finally breakdown. Its highlights have been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points.” In the years before his band teamed up with Scandinavian metal artists, when Porcupine Tree was essentially a pseudonym for Steve Wilson in his bedroom mixing Pink Floyd riffs with trance atmospheres, the highly experimental ‘Voyage 34’ was released as an extended single when it became clear that it wouldn’t fit on Wilson’s forthcoming second album, ‘Up the Downstair.’ Combining his dual influences of psychedelic seventies prog with the contemporary electronic scene, the voyage consists of two sets of two songs each, ...  Read the complete review