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

Gentle Giant | His Last Voyage | Free Hand (2021 Steven Wilson Remix)
Taken from the Blu-ray of the 2021 Remix of “Free Hand” by Steven Wilson. The video uses a unique AI software algorithm to create a set of abstract visuals.
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[@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.

[@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.

[@h3e9m2i9]

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

[@qualaup]

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

[@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...

[@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…

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@bobconnor1210]

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

[@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

[@mjc1970]

Steve Wilson has my soul, damn him...

[@marcianojuniormaraschin5080]

✝ R.I.P. Ray Shulman (1949 🎗 2023) ❤

[@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.............

[@JeffReams]

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

[@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]

​@@jamiepastman5594p

[@alfietomkins7829]

What a beautiful song

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

Unbelievably beautiful. RIP Ray

[@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! 😭

[@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.

[@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

[@MichaelPaumgardhen]

This song is just SO beautiful.

[@peteryyz43]

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

[@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.

[@banknock15]

That bass tone...wow!

[@SpiritualSpectrum]

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

[@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

[@Conn88]

Rest in peace, Ray. Safe voyage.

[@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. 😊❤

[@EduardAntoniu]

The visual is as if in someone's dream.

[@PammyWhammy-o3g]

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

[@RealBesty]

Haunting, beautiful, deep - wonderful!

[@kerry-ch2zi]

Oh God yes! Visuals worthy of the music.

[@sallerterrer1285]

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

[@ericbergmueller2981]

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

[@mattmacneil3424]

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

[@johnbull333]

Love them... Since 1970

[@MarcelloDiLorenzo]

_Adoro il Clavinet in lontananza!_

[@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!

[@diesis80]

I love you Giant!

[@brastoki]

The insuperable Gentle Giant !!!

[@bellutta]

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

[@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]

🇧🇷👏🏼👍😂☕️

[@kmambu5950]

I absolutely love the clip they made for this music... but thank god I don't smoke pot. I think that would've killed me XD

[@paulbennett772]

With visuals like that, you don't need to!

[@ronniewall1481]

HEY STEVE.

[@arqjulio]

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

[@giovannisugonatoli]

one of the peak of g g music

[@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.

[@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.

[@chatelain567]

The heart of the spirit of GG

[@markranfone6393]

this song is perfect

[@grilocambui]

My favorite from Free Hand.

[@JeffReams]

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

[@BeCoShooter]

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

[@JamesZaworski]

This is absolutely wonderful.

[@MATEUSGENTE]

Everything sounds so clearly! Wow

[@grofinet]

Extraordinary in every way!

[@VitalMusique]

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

[@profk3742]

Best track on the album in my opinion

[@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!

[@lauropimenta7212]

Music that fill up my heart

[@ipice5706]

Grandissima band❤ bellissimo brano💯

[@SonicDykstra]

My biggest complaint about GG was always production, and Derek's strained voice. Steven Wilson, thank you!

[@andrewhaldane7932]

If only the band had better financial backing in the early 70's they might have lasted another 30 years making fantastic music without having to worry about compromising their artistic vision😞 I'm just bitter that I never got to see them perform live.😣😫

[@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 ?

[@philmeilleur3289]

R.I.P Ray !

[@egosumlux0]

Exelent exelent

[@DocFrenzy]

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

[@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.

[@progkeyboardsmaniac2239]

Que dire ...Magnifique brilliant🎹🎸🎶🎧

[@jorgehernadez7958]

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

[@edoardozampetti4601]

Pure Genius

[@chatelain567]

See you around Ray;eternal bass lines

[@kentborges5114]

LOVE IT ! Thanks Mr. Wilson for the remix !

[@zeelias_zezito65]

My favourite guitar solo from Mr. Green.

[@samissomar]

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

[@omarbensalaad2482]

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

[@AlexAlexon3897]

Exceptionally beautiful.

[@robskardibourgh1488]

Serenity via beautiful music.

[@roberthiggins2162]

RIP Ray.

[@Kerdevan1]

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

[@PedroTrindade]

Fantastic! Viva Gentle giant!

[@sidcleyneris8045]

One of the most beautiful tune ever!!

[@mikebaranik6227]

All I can say is beautiful !!

[@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.

[@rael2099]

GG's best song, followed closely by The Moon Is Down. This is not up to debate.

[@1359401]

Yeah it is up to debate-best songs are just about every single damm one of them. How can it not be when they are/were the greatest band ever?

[@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 ?

[@leewraysdiamondkite2001]

Thank you so very much.

[@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.

[@deleteable.]

2:57 this groove man

[@rosanacianciosi1226]

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

[@michaelfuria4257]

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

[@MegaCirse]

J’ai vu & entendu des fontaines de lait chocolaté jaillir de son paradis, sans rire les étoiles ont commencé à discuter et ont cessé de défiler et nous de nous saisir de leurs ors dès l’aurore. Le soleil s’est étourdi et la lune, remuée, s’est camouflée derrière un pan de nuages en forme de barbapapa ! C’est merveilleux ne le croyez-vous pas ?

[@neilparnell5712]

There are only two pure sounds of any value. Music and silence - i'll take the music...

[@johnemerick5860]

Just beautiful!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

I'll have whatever Steven had. :)