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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Flower Travellin' Band's 1971 album Satori gets a deserved UK reissue, possibly in the wake of it coming joint top in Julian Cope's academic music history lesson Japrocksampler. Originally released on Atlantic in 1971, this finds FTC (Joe, Hideki Ishima, Joji Wada, & Jhun Kowzuki) advancing on the territory laid out on their great debut LP 'Anywhere' (which might be a better primer for FTC).
Satori is the full FTC trip, sounding a little like bands you might know (Cream, Sabbath, Yardbirds), but going out there - Cope states in Japrocksampler that "so out on a limb was SATORI that it still defies true comparison with other records. They just haven't been recorded yet." Its presence at the top of the list of Cope's Top 50 faves of Japrock suggests you should probably buy it, since the Arch Drude has always had great taste and his mighty Head Heritage site has alerted many to joys previously unknown. Prior to Cope's Krautrocksampler, only a knowing few (musicians, producers) really knew some of those acts - nowadays you get Kasabian talking about Faust and Neu! on Tarantino soundtracks. Who will be citing Satori in years to come?
The last few years have found me listening to what I may have written off as heavy metal, but is more another breed of rock music - it's strange but bands that have tapped into sources like Hawkwind and Sabbath (& others) have really gone out there and it's great that such extreme and forward thinking music is fleshing onto the bones of In Search of Space, Master of Reality, the second side of My War, or Metal Machine Music. Think of acts like Comets on Fire, Dead Meadow, Earth, Khanate, Melvins, Sunn O))) or Thrones and you have examples of people who took what was already there (Cream, Sabbath etc) and went out there...just like Flower Travellin' Band did with Satori (& Anywhere).
SATORI is a trip, parts 1 to 5...sometimes Joe vanishes and the band power on. Sometimes there are many songs in one song and they all sound the same and all sound different. Sometimes the album shifts completely, such as the beginning of Part 3 which sounds like Floyd at Pompei relocating to the debris of Nagasaki and sometimes I play this album all the way through and press play once again. SATORI sounds as fresh as ever and should appeal to anyone who digs the 'head' side of rock music - I still think there is great music made these days, but do realise that I buy more cds of what we know as 'back catalogue.' & it's records like these - an album that sounds fresh to me and something that people should hear...maybe get inspired? Anyway, a wonderful reissue of a great, great album and one that people should buy, regardless of Japrocksampler. I do hope that many more examples cited in Cope's book get a similar reissue to do this, as great as the Amazon Marketplace seller in Japan I have bought this & 'Anywhere' from is!
Satori is the full FTC trip, sounding a little like bands you might know (Cream, Sabbath, Yardbirds), but going out there - Cope states in Japrocksampler that "so out on a limb was SATORI that it still defies true comparison with other records. They just haven't been recorded yet." Its presence at the top of the list of Cope's Top 50 faves of Japrock suggests you should probably buy it, since the Arch Drude has always had great taste and his mighty Head Heritage site has alerted many to joys previously unknown. Prior to Cope's Krautrocksampler, only a knowing few (musicians, producers) really knew some of those acts - nowadays you get Kasabian talking about Faust and Neu! on Tarantino soundtracks. Who will be citing Satori in years to come?
The last few years have found me listening to what I may have written off as heavy metal, but is more another breed of rock music - it's strange but bands that have tapped into sources like Hawkwind and Sabbath (& others) have really gone out there and it's great that such extreme and forward thinking music is fleshing onto the bones of In Search of Space, Master of Reality, the second side of My War, or Metal Machine Music. Think of acts like Comets on Fire, Dead Meadow, Earth, Khanate, Melvins, Sunn O))) or Thrones and you have examples of people who took what was already there (Cream, Sabbath etc) and went out there...just like Flower Travellin' Band did with Satori (& Anywhere).
SATORI is a trip, parts 1 to 5...sometimes Joe vanishes and the band power on. Sometimes there are many songs in one song and they all sound the same and all sound different. Sometimes the album shifts completely, such as the beginning of Part 3 which sounds like Floyd at Pompei relocating to the debris of Nagasaki and sometimes I play this album all the way through and press play once again. SATORI sounds as fresh as ever and should appeal to anyone who digs the 'head' side of rock music - I still think there is great music made these days, but do realise that I buy more cds of what we know as 'back catalogue.' & it's records like these - an album that sounds fresh to me and something that people should hear...maybe get inspired? Anyway, a wonderful reissue of a great, great album and one that people should buy, regardless of Japrocksampler. I do hope that many more examples cited in Cope's book get a similar reissue to do this, as great as the Amazon Marketplace seller in Japan I have bought this & 'Anywhere' from is!
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I bought this album after a friend recommended it.
I was not disappointed. This is a fantastic rock album and will take you places you have never been before. I have been listening to rock since 1972 and have never heard anything quite like this, it's amazing that it is not more well known. It deserves a place in any rock fans collection.
I believe this would be a great aid in meditation and Astral Projection, just listening to it with a cuppa and a few custard creams I found my imagination flying through the trees and then soaring up into the clouds and into space...
I was not disappointed. This is a fantastic rock album and will take you places you have never been before. I have been listening to rock since 1972 and have never heard anything quite like this, it's amazing that it is not more well known. It deserves a place in any rock fans collection.
I believe this would be a great aid in meditation and Astral Projection, just listening to it with a cuppa and a few custard creams I found my imagination flying through the trees and then soaring up into the clouds and into space...
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 Sep 2006
Format:Audio CD
Order it immediately and count down the days until your mind will be blown. It's like Can and Black Sabbath made love and gave birth to Godzilla and instead of trashing Tokyo he just smoked out and ROCKED. Heavier than a thousand planets, tripper than if the end of of 2001 was really happening to you right now, and you really were a giant immortal baby hovering in space, and if that were true then forget Strauss, these guys would be the house band. Don't let next Thursday be another day that you've lived without hearing this.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Amazing piece of Japan Heavy Pshych
9 Nov 2006
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
When everybody in the west were dazed by the sounds of Black Sabbath, Depp Purple, Uriah Heep and so, in the east they were capable of rebuild this sounds and going further
A serie of bands heading by The Flower Travelling band were mixing japanese culture, psichedelia and heavy rock with a layer of mistery, angst and poetry...
This record has been a cult piece for many years, is the second of this band, they began covering their heroes in a first recording and on this everything learned is reflected.
Satori is structured in suites, above all i would sugest for first bite Satori 2nd, a song which would be the best thriller soundtrack, wich reflects how japan understood Black Sabbath. In sons as third suite japanese culture and music is very present, not making the songs boring but giving them a psichedelic style very original and enjoyable.
Now is reissued with original artwork and sleevenotes for every hard rocker delight
A serie of bands heading by The Flower Travelling band were mixing japanese culture, psichedelia and heavy rock with a layer of mistery, angst and poetry...
This record has been a cult piece for many years, is the second of this band, they began covering their heroes in a first recording and on this everything learned is reflected.
Satori is structured in suites, above all i would sugest for first bite Satori 2nd, a song which would be the best thriller soundtrack, wich reflects how japan understood Black Sabbath. In sons as third suite japanese culture and music is very present, not making the songs boring but giving them a psichedelic style very original and enjoyable.
Now is reissued with original artwork and sleevenotes for every hard rocker delight
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
NOT ENOUGH STARS!
25 April 2006
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
prime Japanese proto-metal truly essential for all you scholars of the heavy..Heavy in every sense of the word,truly psychedelic stuff - personally,dont hear too much of the Sabbath vibe here but it is fairly riffy for the time!The blending of East/West elements just makes this trip all the more unique.YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS!!
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