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Voyage 34 | 
| Artist: Porcupine Tree
Label: Snapper Classics UK
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 24974
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 167
UPC: 636551616720
EAN: 0636551616720
ASIN: B0002N4ZEW
Release Date: October 26, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Phase I - Porcupine Tree, Wilson, Steve | | • | Phase II | | • | Phase III | | • | Phase IV |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 PORCUPINE TREE ...EXPERIMENTAL October 6, 2008
Camilo Correa
This is the beggining of the real sound of Porcupine Tree; an excellent cd for all PT fans, not for begginers.
Porcipine Tree - Takes A Trip January 9, 2008
Steven Sly (Kalamazoo, MI United States)
In a nutshell this album is an hour long musical journey through an acid trip. The album is all instrumental with the exception of quite a few voice overs from old 1960s LSD documentaries, and acid tripping participants. 60s acid guru Timothy Leary is featured as well. There is a definite Pink Floyd influence to all of this, especially the main theme which is very similar to Another Brick In The Wall from The Wall album. This is another disc that was created prior to Porcupine Tree actually becoming a band. Stephen Wilson is the sole contributor to the music on phase 1, 2 and 3 of the disc, and that in itself is pretty amazing. Some Porcupine Tree fans really dislike this album while others hail it as an early triumph. I think you have to take it for what it is, but for the most part I have always really liked it. Listening to the album with the aid of inebriating substances can definitely enhance the experience (I admit to nothing ), but I have also always enjoyed the disc straight up as well.
Experimental and spacey! November 14, 2007
Donald F. Weidmann
I found " Voyage 34" to be an album nice to listen to when you want ambient music in the area. Not an album to sample Porcupine Tree's deverse talents from.The second and third tracks are trance themes. As nice a melody as they are they get to be redundant over the lenth of time. Being a fan of PT's music today it was nice to hear the musical genesis of their early stuff compared to the different style and sound they have today.
Interesting piece of work January 3, 2007
Shared Gum (alexandria, va United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love Porcupine Tree. I find their music stimulating and unique. I own quite a bit of their stuff. This album is very interesting and it gets four stars for creativity and some nice guitar work.
Having said that, unless you are a rabid collector of PT works, you may want to purchase the Stars Die compilation as the 12 minute mix on it is more or less the highlight of this album (the mix on Stars Die is a modified version of Voyage 1). I often find myself admiring the Stars Die mix, but I will rarely stick this entire cd in my stereo. However, if you want to purchase it to support the band (lord knows that too many horrible "artists" are supported these days), you can't go wrong either, as this cd can be obtained for a reasonable price.
This isn't so bad August 25, 2006
BENJAMIN MILER (Eugene, OR United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Voyage 34 was actually a collection of two extended singles released in 1992 and 1993, the first two parts from 1992 and the last two from '93. OK, so material here was supposed to be slated for Up the Downstair, but didn't. At this early point in Porcupine Tree's career, it was still a Steve Wilson project, he had yet to have a band (but that would quickly change), although on "Phase IV", Richard Barbieri provided synth work.
Many people regard this as one of the worst albums in the Porcupine Tree catalog, but it's not that bad. For one thing this is an instrumental album, you won't find Wilson's voice anywhere, but you do hear spoken dialog, about some guy by the name of Brian and his experience of LSD. Porcupine Tree was hardly the first to do an album about the experience of LSD, way back in 1967, none other than well-known Bay Area psychedelic rockers Jefferson Airplane recorded an album called After Bathing at Baxter's which was supposed to document the LSD trip. But of course you'll never mistake Porcupine Tree for Jefferson Airplane. For one thing, the production and the sound is quite modern, and you do hear plenty of '90s influences to go with '70s influences. The music has a darker, much more sinister tone, not the hippie type flower power stuff like you expect from the Airplane. The Pink Floyd comparisons are valid, the first two parts, especially features the same David Gilmour-type delayed guitar you hear on The Wall (like "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1"), with lots of ambient sounds to go with it as you expect from Porcupine Tree. The third part is much more techno-influenced, but I can understand why many might turn away from this cut, as the rhythm does stay the same throughout. The final part is mainly all ambient with yet more spoken dialog, I suspect the female narrator is the same person who also did "Not Beautiful Anymore" off Up the Downstair. People expecting some regular songs to go with the band's techno and ambient experiments might have been put off by Voyage 34, because it doesn't have regular songs.
I happen to own the most recent CD reissue, in digipak, and a new cover.
People wanting to explore the earlier PT catalog would obviously be advised to start with Up the Downstair, The Sky Moves Sideways, or Signify, but this is also worth having if you're a fan.
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