Voyage 34: The Complete Trip

Vo 737x2317h yage 34: The Complete Trip

Artist 

Porcupine Tree

Album Title 

Vo 737x2317h yage 34: The Complete Trip

Date of Release 

Jun 6, 2000

Genre 

Rock

Tones 

Trippy, Paranoid, Intense, Difficult

Styles 

Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental, Experimental Rock

Type 

compilation

Vo 737x2317h yage 34, originally a two-volume EP series from 1992-1993, was expanded into "The Complete Trip" after Steven Wilson remixed and added production for its eventual re-release seven years later. Documenting the ill effects of an acid trip by a frequent user (the first 33 were fine), the four-phase work begins with a straight-laced narrator explaining the events leading up to the trip, with straight-ahead (though slightly exploratory) guitar work by Wilson over a mid-tempo drum section. Thankfully, the album gradually moves into more ambient climes, with trippy vocal samples framing the mood throughout the final phases. Including a thick booklet with most of the narration repeated alongside surreal artwork, Vo 737x2317h yage 34: The Complete Trip is a bit self-serious and pseudo-mystical even without the music to add to it, an intriguing experiment but hardly a work to stand on its own.

1.

Phase I (Wilson) - 12:54

2.

Phase II (Wilson) - 17:24

3.

Phase III (Wilson) - 19:24

4.

Phase IV (Wilson) - 13:42

Richard Barbieri

 - 

Synthesizer

Swordfish

 - 

Remixing, Production Director

Steven Wilson

 - 

Programming, Producer

Aleph

 - 

Design, Photography

Mike Bennion

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Photography

 2000

CD

Delerium

74