FLOWER TRAVELLING BAND "Satori" orig psych GRT M-
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1971/Cdn/GRT 9230-1005.....The Flower Travellin' Band's first musical outing, Challenge, which released in 1970 and was essentially a series of covers of Cream, Hendrix, Big Brother and Jefferson Airplane material. However, Satori appeared a year later and changed forever the way the group would be perceived, both in Japan and the musical world at large. Possessing the vision to select Akira 'Joe' Yamanaka as their vocalist, the Flower Travellin' boys elevated themselves above other Japanese bands of the time, whose efforts were largely confined to imitating British and American bands of the era. Satori, which was released a year later in 1971, is a conceptual hard rock- psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass and Yamanaka's banshee- like vocal style while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern- tinged North African six string freak- outs and crashing tom- toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this is a real rock classic of the type they simply don't make any more. Superb!....this is an original Canadian release in a great gatefold cover and a different mix to the Japanese original, the songs are: Satori, Kamikaze, Satori ( Part II), Hiroshima, Unaware, Gimmie Air, Satori ( Part III), and Lullaby, the gatefold cover is in VG+ condition, there is light storage wear mainily at the top and bottom, there is very light corner wear and a couple of small spots of wear on the bottom seam, there is a light rippling effect right along the left side on the front, it must have got damp at some time but did not cause any other damage, this is not bad but needs to be mentioned, there are no splits or delete, the cover looks quite nice, the vinyl is in M- condition, appears new and unplayed with clean labels showing no spindle wear or marks, a real nice copy of this monster lp!, please check my auctions for other folk, psych and rock lp's, good luck and thanks for looking!
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