- Voyage 34
Infobox single | Name = Voyage 34
Artist =Porcupine Tree
Released = November, 1992
Genre =Psychedelic rock , Trance
Length = 30:04
Label = Delerium
Producer =Steven Wilson
Reviews =
Last single = "On the Sunday of Life...
(1991)
This single = "Voyage 34" (1992)
Next single = "Up the Downstair " (1993)"Voyage 34" is a Single by British
progressive rock bandPorcupine Tree . Although it was originally thought to be a song for the album "Up the Downstair ", making it a double album, this idea was later rejected so it was released separately.The single consists of just one song divided in two phases, clocking in at 30 minutes, where a narrator's voice describes the
LSD trip of a young man called Brian in real time. It also features testimonies provided by other people supposed to beLSD habitué consumers. This was the first song of the band to explore the ground oftrance music ."Voyage 34" was reissued on November 1993 accompanied by a remix LP called "", which contained two reworked versions of the song, one of them being remixed by
Astralasia and the other bySteven Wilson himself together withRichard Barbieri ."Voyage 34" and "Voyage 34: Remixes", were compiled in an album titled "" issued on 2000. The song "Voyage 34 (Phase 1 and 2) was split in two individual tracks.
According to Steven Wilson in the liner notes for "Up the Downstair", "Voyage 34" is the second longest single ever released in the UK, after "Blue Room" by
The Orb .The song samples an ambient noise break from "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" by
Van der Graaf Generator Track listing
# Voyage 34 (Phase 1 and 2) - (30:04)
Line up;steven Wilson-Synthesizers,guitars and all machines...
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