Flower Travelling Band was Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin meeting Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath at the Ash Ra Temple. Simply put, they played grand, spacey, tripped-out hard rock with a riffy base that was only two steps removed from the blues, but their manner of interpreting those steps came from an acid trip. Flower Travelling Band was an entity unto itself. There are five tracks on this set, originally released in 1971 as the band's second album proper. It has been reissued on CD by WEA International in Japan, with the cover depicting a silhouette drawing of the Buddha in meditative equipoise filled in with sketches of an inner universe mandala of the sacred Mount Meru, stupas, and the hash smoking caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland, Japanese sci-fi robot cartoons, and more. And the music is reflected in this inner universal realm on five different sections of Satori. From power chords to Eastern-tinged, North African, six-string freakouts, to crashing tom toms, to basses blasting into the red zone, Satori is a journey to the center of someplace that seems familiar but has never before been visited. It is a new sonic universe constructed from cast-off elements of the popular culture of the LSD generation. Forget everything you know about hard rock from the 1970s until you've put this one through your headphones. It's monolithic, expansive, flipped to wig city, and full of a beach blanket bong-out muscularity.
Hideki Ishima (guitar)
Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals)
Joji Wada (drums)
Jhun Kowzuki (bass)
A) 1 Satori Part 1 5:22
2 Satori Part 2 6:56
3 Satori Part 3 9:40
B) 1 Satori Part 4 10:53
2 Satori Part 5 6:56
Mindblowing Japanese rock classic, heavier than a thousand planets: meaty, doomy power chords on top of driving basslines and tribal drums with a sinewy, molten, eastern-tinged lead guitar soaring above it all like hookah smoke -- the bastard love child of Black Sabbath and Godzilla emerging from the sea not to destroy Tokyo but just to ROCK!!!! Intense and partially unintelligible vocals plus a smoking harmonica solo on Satori IV round out the incredible sound. Each track is a masterpiece. One of the finest albums to come out in the early 70s, which of course makes it one of the finest albums ever and possibly the best album you've never heard. This is one heavy album that might go into heavy rotation for the rest of your life, or at the very least for the rest of the year.
Highly recommended! MONSTER!
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A) 1 Satori Part 1 5:22
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Many thanks, great band from Japan.
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GREAT POST,DUDE!
Best wishes,Miguel.
Wow! Sometimes, I download albums based on the reviews, only to find that the music/band has been WAY overblown by the hyperbolic writing. This is definitely NOT THE CASE with FTB's 'Satori'-- this thing is a monster. This was recorded 36 years ago and is still heavy as shit. Well worth looking into, worth the download, worth the listening time. Personally, like the review said, I'll be listening to it A LOT! Thanks so much for this.
Joe Yamanaka(Vo.)/Hideki Ishima(Sitarla.)/Jun Kobayashi(B.)/George Wada(Dr.)/Nobuhiko Shinohara(Key.)
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND came back from a trip！
Interview:Hideki Ishima
By DAVID HICKEY(The Japan Times)
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