Gentle Giant "His Last Voyage" (2021 Steven Wilson Remix)

[@seraphimberlin]

Rest in Peace, Ray Shulman.... such a legacy.

[@kathymiljevich9434]

Does anyone else think this subtle bass line.is gorgeous?

[@neilparnell5712]

Ray Shulman is a genius.

[@davidfindlay4547]

Beautiful. Perfectly played

[@percronholm8536]

@@neilparnell5712 Sadly, this is no longer completely true, he WAS a genius. But of course he will always live on in our memories.

[@neilparnell5712]

@@percronholm8536 Just heard of his passing. Gutted. What a sad loss of a fantastically talented and humble musician. What with Chris Squire and John Wetton already up there they will have some great jams !

[@1ouncebird]

@@neilparnell5712 Along with Greg Lake. The low end is well represented.

[@boomsounds9432]

This masterpiece will be played at my funeral, and loud! Mr.Kerry Minnear, so underrated as a songwriter and musician.

[@kevinokeefe5709]

Saw them do the “Free Hand” concert as a teenager in the late 1970’s and I sat there with my jaw on the floor. I’ve been a jazz drummer my whole life so very much into the prog of that age- Peter Gabriel Genesis- King Crimson, Weather Report, Passport, etc.- GG was SO original I never blinked! “Funny Ways” with the 5 man drum solo and their muted but beautiful light show- plus they were SO tight!! Still love them till this day. 🌴😎🥁🌴

[@davidfindlay4547]

​@Kevin O’Keefe at the risk of spouting superlatives...this band totally changed the way I thought of music. Forever.

[@dreamcruise2009]

Only underrated if you don't, "know."

[@reidwhitton6248]

This song is not all Kerry's music. Ray wrote some of this.

[@neroribeiro]

Gentle Giant - His Last Voyage Rose in early morning, as the light came through, Searching in the ocean, did what he should do, Seeking not adventure, just a way of life, Sky above turned grey, wind cut like a knife. This was his last voyage, this was his last time. Pulling up the anchor, letting go the rope, Age rules over all things, fate rules over hope. Then as bow was broken, water soon to rise, For they would have nothing, Nature's trust unwise, Through his boat and fortune, not for him that day, If he went to God, for him they would pray, As the tempest thundered, as the storm broke free, Suddenly in darkness, fear there none to see, Visions in his memory, what was meant to be, When the storm was over, nothing could be seen, Life and boat were taken, God knows what it means. Rose in early morning, as the light came through, Searching in the ocean, did what he should do, This was his last voyage, this was his last time. Pulling up the anchor, letting go the rope, Age rules over all things, fate rules over hope.

[@jamiepastman5594]

Of all Giant's music, this is #1 for me. That little clavinet riff could easily represent my entire philosophy for living life. Seriously

[@berthazopp1]

Yes indeed! That little riff never fails to go right through me!

[@neilparnell5712]

Some bands in a full career never write anything as magical as that little riff ! The whole song is off the scale for mere mortals.

[@LilHaseProductions]

Funnily enough this is one of my favorite songs ever but I've always thought if I could do it differently I'd remove that clavinet riff. I think it adds an unnecessary harmonic tension to a beautiful chord progression. (Yes I am aware GG does this a lot).

[@jamiepastman5594]

@peterg5383 agreed! i played OAYY live with a Giant cover band and when i got to the ending organ part I started crying as I was playing it. Green was in the audience!

[@Maikytube1]

Although without Leslie the outro-Organ is very inspiring for me - the feeling of never ending…

[@arthurmee]

Such a beautiful piece of music. Criminally underrated band.

[@1crashit]

Word...

[@tommyrawlings3046]

No one remotely like them!

[@dgcmusi]

The music intelligentsia knows of them….remember when Bach died no one knew of his music but a certain amount…..

[@ta1215]

Wenn wir denn noch so viel Zeit hätten.. aber Sie sprechen es richtig aus!

[@axolotl8694]

they're not underrated. everyone who knows them rates them. just not many people know them.

[@6stringstrum]

This guitar solo, is one of the best GG guitar solo's ever...

[@jamiepastman5594]

Yes, Green's finest solo moment for sure

[@JpointA]

My favorite Gentle Giant guitar solo, after the one on Peel the Paint

[@bobconnor1210]

I remember my first time hearing this. It floored me. Shame I can only give it but one like.

[@railwaystationmaster]

There has seldom been a group of musicians that had dexterity and virtuoso implanted into their core DNA as these maestros , individual geniuses collectedly Gentle Giant , a colossus of the prog genre , without equal and indelibly stamped on my fading memories of old age.

[@Ninja_S1000RR-R]

Kerry was always my favorite singer in the band. His singing on The Power and The Glory album was great as well!

[@Iracord]

He didn't "strain"...

[@jamiepastman5594]

@BuwsurFind the live radio bootleg where he sings the lead on Experience in the beginning (the album was called Amongst The Darkers I think). It kills me it is so great. He didn't sing it live because he wasn't loud enough for the primitive PAs of the seventies, so Derrick sang it. But the version I mention is the greatest thing I've ever heard Giant do. Kerry is my hero

[@shirleyarnold9686]

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[@klaaskruit193]

There is no better music than music of Gentle Giant Giant

[@1359401]

Oh god yeah!!!!!! You are a gazillion % correct my good man they are/were the greatest most legendary genius unique band ever

[@marcianojuniormaraschin5080]

✝ R.I.P. Ray Shulman (1949 🎗 2023) ❤

[@timwhite5647]

At 63 years of age, I stopped doing magic mushrooms about 45 years ago. "His Last Voyage" is one of the greatest Gentle Giant songs there is.(Although that is certainly debatable), I guess the visuals are a bit much for me now...it's too "trippy", but I do applaud the efforts to keep their music alive. Gentle Giant should live on forever...just like the Beatles, and we who are now parents should expose our children to this world where imagination was fused with music and the results were often extremely interesting and satisfying.

[@eugeniomarins2936]

Stopped hemp just 10 (15?) years ago. I am young (6 years younger than thou!), but have a 6 yo son. GG and other great goups/musicians must be in his musical education.

[@thewordofgord]

Time to get the shrooms out again Tim!

[@timwhite5647]

@@thewordofgord You go on ahead, I'm gonna pass.

[@rael2099]

Ray's embarked in his last voyage. Farewell thee, my friend. Thank you for the melodies.

[@SonicDykstra]

There are no final voyages. The voyage just continues.

[@Lisa_Wattson]

This is one of the most beatiful pieces of art I've ever heard. After that smooth guitar solo, those gorgeos vocals and the overall composition of the piece as a whole with all the instruments caotically playing in harmony, that ending with a simple echoey guitar hit the hardest after a masterpiece like this was over. I feel like I didn't enjoy this piece enough the first time I heard it. A lot has been changing in my life and as I was sitting against a tree looking at the horizon, all of this I was hearing seemed to make sense. Suddenly it had changed from just a song I've heard to the perfect soundtrack for this moment of peace and hope as my thoughts seetled down and I was immerced in the music and the story it tells. It fascinates me that someone was able to do this, music is just something out of this world to me as someone who struggled to play any instruments and only go really well with vocals and percussion. I don't know how they could come up with this melodies, the bassline communucating with the chords on the piano and the xylophone, it's unreal to me, it seems like contemplating something I have no knowledge to understand but I can still fully appreciate it. I would really like to know all the band member's history. They seem to have a strong influence in jazz and it makes me wonder if they participated in any groups before "Gentle Giant", I can recongnize a bit of jazz influence in the piano playing of a couple of songs but also the drum playing, I might be completely wrong because I have almost no knowledge in music but that's what my ears tell me. At least I can enjoy a piece like this and delve into this soundscape, enjoying every word and aspect, verbal and musical, it's all too great...

[@h3e9m2i9]

The last line "Age rules over all things, fate rules over hope" always gets me.

[@spriggan3935]

Ray has just begun his last voyage. RIP.

[@Ninja_S1000RR-R]

Had to listen to this song as soon as I heard the news! This whole album is a bass guitar masterpiece and the violins too! 😭

[@neilparnell5712]

R.I.P. Ray Shulman. Sad loss of a very special musician. Such a fitting song to remember him by, I'm crying as I listen to this.............

[@SpiritualSpectrum]

Thanks to all who made this possible. It doesn't get any better than this.

[@peteryyz43]

Pffft... that last, lonely, beautiful C chord at the very end: chills every time I hear it. Rest in peace, Ray.

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

Unbelievably beautiful. RIP Ray

[@MichaelPaumgardhen]

This song is just SO beautiful.

[@JeffReams]

Free Hand is a masterpiece. This song and the next song, Talybont and some of my all time favorite GG songs.

[@banknock15]

That bass tone...wow!

[@davideastlee9983]

saw them in Seattle in 1975... this is beautiful beyond belief. 1965 to 1975 was a golden age...up until "Disco"

[@rick400171]

Omg! I saw that concert at the PARAMOUNT THEATER too!! To this day one of the BEST concerts I ever saw. I’ll never forgot how it started… they had a big blank screen onstage.. while waiting for them to come onstage all of a sudden an image of the bass drum appeared, then an amp.. a guitar on a stand, a keyboard, cymbal all maybe 10 seconds or so apart… eventually all the bands gear was on that screen… and then it came up and it was The BAND!!! Can’t remember what they opened with but they were INCREDIBLE… they played a couple songs off their new album that had not been released yet: THE MISSING PIECE.. I’ll never forget that show, I was in the center lower level up front. 😊❤

[@jerep107]

This is the perfect farewell song to the late, great Ray Shulman. The melodic bass is at the very essence of Gentle Giant´s greatness

[@josegnaspinijunior4581]

All of them are brilliant, but Minear and Ray are genius! Fantastic music, has all that a music need.

[@jamiepastman5594]

yes, Kerry and Ray are the geniuses that drive Giant

[@jotita1959]

Why have you never come to Chile?????....I cry for that and for all the contribution that I missed.. This song lifts us up and transports our soul throughout the universe. GG's music should be taught everywhere especially to young people, so they can feel the melody, the harmonies, read their lyrics, imagine the musical landscapes that this underrated group has given to humanity. Music is part of mathematics turned into sound. Today, at 64, I feel privileged and honored to belong to a generation that embraced and defends this music because it is part of universal culture.

[@ruckman6563]

Stunning! Originally released nearly fifty years ago but Steven Wilson's mix makes it sound like a new album.

[@Dremth]

Even new albums don't sound this good! Great analogue recording with great mixing will always surpass any digital recording. The nature of the imperfections of analogue are what make it perfect to the ear.

[@polbecca]

I've tended to feel that Steven Wilson's mixes are a bit dry sounding and too clean, but this mix really sounds like it was recorded yesterday!

[@RealBesty]

Haunting, beautiful, deep - wonderful!

[@Conn88]

Rest in peace, Ray. Safe voyage.

[@romeromacedo7033]

Ray Shulman and ALL gentle giant...❤

[@kathowed]

Simply wow… I feel so lucky and grateful to have had Gentle Giant as part of my life's soundtrack, but the SW remix - combined with the magic YT conversion algorithm - takes this to a whole other level. As does the astonishing video: you could watch it a squillion times and never see the same clip twice.

[@ronniewall1481]

SAW THEM AT ARMADILLO WORLD HEADQUARTERS SIX BUCKS. FOUR HOUR SET. AT THE ARMADILLO YOU COULD SIT AT A TABLE GET FOOD DRINK.

[@modulusquantum6455]

@@ronniewall1481 Probably back when Austin was a "good" kind of weird.

[@1crashit]

🌹Ray Shulman, a founding member, with two of his brothers, in the progressive rock band Gentle Giant, died March 30, 2023, at 73. His death was announced by his bandmate and brother, Derek Shulman, today (April 1). Ray Shulman had been battling a long illness, though the specific cause of death wasn’t disclosed. In his Facebook post, Derek Shulman called his brother “my best friend.” He wrote, in part, “Ray really was a genius in so many ways. He was such a kind and caring soul. He was an incredible composer, musician, music producer and tech wizard.

[@PammyWhammy-o3g]

This is beautiful. Everything about it, from the vocal to the video.

[@bellutta]

Probably my favorite GG song. To me this has a special meaning, related to my work...

[@kerry-ch2zi]

Oh God yes! Visuals worthy of the music.

[@mattmacneil3424]

what a beautiful song. these guys were truly in a league of their own, damn.

[@martyndormer]

Outstanding. The apex of prog bands,😊

[@bobm6488]

Absolutely breathtaking beautiful song. One of my favorites by a band that all these years later is still on my frequent listening rotation. Not always a fan of SW remixes but he hit this one out of the park.

[@alfietomkins7829]

What a beautiful song

[@sallerterrer1285]

Kerry Churchill Minnear!!! What a voice!!!!!

[@jmcd4999]

The video images were just like Gentle Giant music, a complex interplay resulting in something amazing that we've never seen before and that is still amazing after many views. Great job!

[@MATEUSGENTE]

Everything sounds so clearly! Wow

[@VitalMusique]

one of the most beautifull and touching tracks from Gentle Giant ...

[@Kerdevan1]

I just open my soul when I hear the opening bars of this song and just let the voice carry me away.

[@diesis80]

I love you Giant!

[@diegosilvestre3519]

Que banda sensacional meus amigos, que banda! Obrigado Gigante Gentil!

[@gabrielceolato2]

Iniciei no prog com ela

[@paulbennett772]

@@gabrielceolato2 Don't press 'translate'; he means "They got me into prog".

[@diegosilvestre3519]

@@gabrielceolato2 vishi... Já chegou com "dois pés no peito"...

[@guilhermedejesusvieira6656]

@@paulbennett772 lmao

[@nsgobbi]

🇧🇷👏🏼👍😂☕️

[@kevgamble]

Love the depth and space in this mix. Feels like you're right in the middle of the song, immersed and surrounded by it. Such marvelous music.

[@arqjulio]

Cuando la música era MÁGICA....gracias GENTLE GIANT, desde el fin del mundo ...el sur de Chile...

[@MarcelloDiLorenzo]

_Adoro il Clavinet in lontananza!_

[@LilHaseProductions]

listened to GG's discography back to front 20 times each over. Think this is my favorite piece.

[@markranfone6393]

this song is perfect

[@nsgobbi]

Masterpiece match of audio & video is not enough to call this piece of work. It’s a drug-free visual & audiophile trip, what else can I say ?

[@BeCoShooter]

My chemical past comes racing up to meet me now. Fantastic. More please!!

[@mjc1970]

Steve Wilson has my soul, damn him...

[@grilocambui]

My favorite from Free Hand.

[@omarbensalaad2482]

Love! God bless you all! You are the best!!!

[@JF-fn2jq]

So wonderful to listen to Steven's outstanding remixes. All the nuances of this great band can be heard and appreciated. Thank you Steven! Thank you Gentle Giant!

[@lauropimenta7212]

Music that fill up my heart

[@Dremth]

I love this usage of AI reconstruction. Really creates a beautiful and surreal visualization to go along with a beautiful and surreal song. I love how you can vaguely recognize some of the input images, but it's always made a little strange. Of course the Steven Wilson remix can't be overlooked here either. Just phenomenal video and audio all around, and a true crime this doesn't have more views.

[@nsgobbi]

We’re just a few lucky ones my friend. Other videos might award zillion views, proportionally reverse to quality. Remember Psy ?

[@grofinet]

Extraordinary in every way!

[@rosanacianciosi1226]

la canción mas hermosa de este ecepcional grupo.gracias por compartirla.saludos desde Argentina

[@kentborges5114]

LOVE IT ! Thanks Mr. Wilson for the remix !

[@brastoki]

The insuperable Gentle Giant !!!

[@zeelias_zezito65]

My favourite guitar solo from Mr. Green.

[@DocFrenzy]

The video is exquisitely beautiful, simultaneously mysterious and comforting. ❤

[@ricardodecastropeccini3758]

A banda que fez a diferença no progressivo dos 70. Inigualável

[@emilobe]

GENTLE GIANT were and still are the Soundtrack of my Life! 😥🤘

[@omarbensalaad2482]

Inclassables, comme toujours! Et d’une pureté extrême! Cela dépasse le SUBLIME!

[@AlexAlexon3897]

Exceptionally beautiful.

[@chatelain567]

The heart of the spirit of GG

[@johnbull333]

Love them... Since 1970

[@BayouMaccabee]

I love this song, but I love the visual artistry just as much...very well done, good sir!

[@samissomar]

Giant Work...for Gentle Soundscapings !...

[@xristospier3602]

VERY NICE VIDEO!! THANK YOU STEVEN WILSON, FOR THE FANTASTIC MUSIC YOU CREATE ALL THESE YEARS....... ( I GOT ALMOST EVERYTHING). THANK YOU FOR THESE FANTASTIC AND HISTORICAL REMIXES YOU' VE DONE( NOT ONLY TO THE GENTLE GIANT WORKS)!! GENTLE GIANT, THANK YOU FOR BEING A GREAT PART OF MY LIFE!!!!!

[@slidetek]

Awesome blending of deep fake technology with one of my favorites from this amazing band. Funny how many times when I'd listen to GG in my bedroom in the dark back then, I'd be watching something kind of similar going on.

[@edoardozampetti4601]

Pure Genius

[@josealexandreferreiradasil2054]

A melhor banda já criada neste planeta.muito obrigado por suas canções.

[@jorgehernadez7958]

Exquisite amazing romantic glamours poetic is something of another world Its very simple art rock

[@mattmiller4917]

This is incredible. I have heard of Gentle Giant before and tried to get into them back when I was listening to a lot of Caravan's music. This did the trick. I'll be back.

[@esvneto1]

Que vídeo incrível. Essas versões remasterizada por Steve Wilson deu uma nova vida música. Gentle Giant a melhor banda de progressive do mundo.

[@gabrielceolato2]

Bom ver brasileiros por aqui

[@nsgobbi]

@@gabrielceolato2 Baciadas !!!

[@nsgobbi]

@@gabrielceolato2 “por aqui” you meant KZbin ? Brazilian people is 2nd or 3rd always in comments, depending on the subject. In progressive rock videos, you gonna find thousands. 🇧🇷😂

[@ericbergmueller2981]

Prog does to my brain what The Blues does to my soul.

[@markderen5223]

These guys made my high school years ... and to this day !

[@sidcleyneris8045]

One of the most beautiful tune ever!!

[@michaelfuria4257]

As always, GG delivers top-notch musicianship....

[@profk3742]

Best track on the album in my opinion

[@ThorHammerdahl]

only a true love & appreciation for the music of Gentle Giant would inspire the creative energy needed to make a music video of equivalent beauty.

[@dannielor]

Gentle Giant me ha acompañado durante las peripecias de los últimos años. La canción y el vídeo me producen una sensación inigualable. Aguante Gentle Giant

[@JeffReams]

Such a beautiful song. The bass lines are just phenomenal. RiP Ray

[@progkeyboardsmaniac2239]

Que dire ...Magnifique brilliant🎹🎸🎶🎧

[@JamesZaworski]

This is absolutely wonderful.

[@ipice5706]

Grandissima band❤ bellissimo brano💯

[@johnemerick5860]

Just beautiful!

[@EduardAntoniu]

The visual is as if in someone's dream.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Beautiful. Great job on the remix, clear as a bell with all the nuance.

[@robskardibourgh1488]

Serenity via beautiful music.

[@bigreed43]

I stumbled upon GG on a Tidal algorithm and are now my favorite band. This song “Aspirations” and The Advent of Panurg take to places I never dreamed existed. All the better with a great hi fi system and headphones.

[@PedroTrindade]

Fantastic! Viva Gentle giant!

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Best Visuals Yet on here !!! : D