TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Satori" - Flower Travellin' Band (1971 - Rei 2021)

"Satori" - Flower Travellin' Band (1971 - Rei 2021)

We sometimes forget there were other bands from other places bringing the thunder and lightning.  In this instance, the Japanese metal-crushing...Flower Travellin' Band...were blowing out windows.  If you like the early sounds of heavy metal with a psych crunch, the band's second album "Satori" will be a mind-pleaser.

Flower Travellin' Band were doing it, man, and doing it with their own style of wrecking ball trippage.  "Satori" is a psych-twisted heavy rock square.  Gloom-dusted and lightly prog-seasoned.  And all with a unique and delicious oriental exclamation.  Dropping the needle on "Satori" will call to mind a couple of other bands that were blowing up around the same time.  Spin this and you'll know.  But they ain't copy-cats.  Just influenced.  And the album holds up still.

"Satori" - Flower Travellin' Band (back)

Of the five tracks on "Satori," favorites include the coffee-spitting powderkeg opener "Satori Part I."  And "Satori Part II" is a heavy lysergic flambeau.  The rest of the album is simply various degrees of ass-kickery.

My copy is an unofficial release from Life Goes On Records and has been one of my favorite spins of late.  Holding space on my eBay watchlist for some time, outta the blue, the seller threw a pretty decent discount offer my way and I took it.  I read there were some copies that were recorded too low, but my spin sounded as it should.  Clean and clear without any adjustment in the gain.  Do your research.  It's worth tracking down this essential square for your collection.

"Satori" - Flower Travellin' Band (inside gatefold)

Life Goes On Records
(Side 1 & Side 2)

Cat #  
LIFE001
SIDE 1  DEADWAX
LIFE 001 - A -  
SIDE 2  DEADWAX
LIFE 001 - B - 

"Satori Part I" - Flower Travellin' Band / "Satori" (1971)

TRACKS:
A1  "Satori Part 1" 5:22
A2  "Satori Part 2" 6:56
A3  "Satori Part 3" 9:40
B1  "Satori Part 4" 10:53
B2  "Satori Part 5" 6:56

PERSONNEL:
Joe Yamanaka – vocals
Hideki Ishima – guitar
Jun Kozuki – bass
George Wada – drums

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