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★★★★★ 4.5 points (19 reviews)


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  • Issued : 25 May 1998

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Genre : Japanese Pop Catalogue Number : WPC68425
Format : CD Label : Wea Japan
Issued : 25 May 1998 Item sourced from : Japan
Number of Discs : 1

Satori

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Other Versions

  • CD   UK Edition   ¥2,985   UK Import   Released: 28 Jun 2004  
  • CD   UK Edition   ¥2,024   Reissue Limited Edition CD (UK Import)   Released: 08 Oct 2007  
  • LP   UK Edition   ¥3,300   Reissue LP (UK Import)   Released: 03 Dec 2007  
  • SHM-CD   Japan Edition   ¥2,500   Reissue SHM-CD   Released: 19 Sep 2009  

HMV Review

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. In other words, this is a real classic and worth any price you happen to pay for it.~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Credits

Hideki Ishima(Guitar),  Joe Yamanaka(Vocals),  Joji "George" Wada(Drums),  Jun Kowzuki(Bass),  Jun Kowzuki(Guitar),  Joe Yamanaka(Harmonica),  Ikuzo Orita(Producer),  Speed(Producer),  The Flower Travellin' Band(Arranger),  Norio Yoshizawa(Mixing)

Songs

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    SATORI PART1  (05:25)
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    2
    SATORI PART2  (07:06)
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    3
    SATORI PART3
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    4
    SATORI PART4
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    5
    SATORI PART5  (07:58)

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  • ★★★★★ 

    パチャ  |  千葉県  |  不明  |  24/October/2010

    音源をどうやって手に入れたのかは…多分CD起こしだとはおもうのですが、とにかく音が良いです。音が良いと云うのはデジタル臭さがなく音がとても太く録音されています。オリジナルのLPは未聴ですが、十分納得のいく音だと思います。内容に関してはsatori part2が有るだけで十分購入する価値があるものです。サバス的だとか言う方もいらっしゃるかと思いますが、日本のヘビーロックの黎明期としては破格のバンドだと思います。

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  • ★★★★★ 

    梅干し  |  大阪府  |  不明  |  22/August/2010

    冒頭の電子音でやられました!アドレナリンが沸き出るような最高のオリエンタルロックサウンドです!これは好きな人は最高にはまると思います!ジョーさん、石間さん、裕也さんセンキュー!

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  • ★★★★★ 

    birdy  |  岩手県  |  不明  |  23/February/2010

    Jロック黎明期の今更言うまでもない名盤ですが、ダイナミックなインプロヴィゼイションを中心とした東洋音階。まるでライヴアルバムでも聞いてるようだし、当時の手探り状態の試行錯誤のバンドの中で、間違いなくハードスケールの大きさは一番でした。何より最初から世界を視野に入れていてオリエンタリックなHRに仕上げたアイデンティティに拍手をおくりたい。これだけで内田裕也を評価できる。こんなコンセプトアルバム後にも先にもない。GSに聞こえる?聞こえないでしょ。40年の愛聴盤です。

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