Flower travellin 'band

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Flower travellin 'band
Flower Travellin 'Band 2008 in New York City.
Flower Travellin 'Band 2008 in New York City.
General information
origin Japan
Genre (s) Hard rock , progressive rock , psychedelic rock
founding 1970
resolution 2011
Founding members
Hideki Ishima
Joe Yamanaka
Bass , guitar
 Jun Kozuki
Jōji Wada
Last occupation
Guitar , sitar , sitarla
 Hideki Ishima
Joe Yamanaka
Jun Kozuki
Jōji Wada
Nobuhiko Shinohara

Flower Travellin 'Band (FTB) ( Japanese フ ラ ワ ー ・ ト ラ ベ リ ン ・ バ ン ド , Furawā Toraberin Bando ) was a Japanese rock band that was formed in the late 1960s. She released four albums from 1970 to 1973 and, after a long break, one last album in 2008. After the death of the singer Joe Yamanaka in 2011, the band finally broke up.

Band history

In 1968 the Japanese actor and singer Yuya Uchida founded a band called Flowers, which in 1969 released an album called "Yuya Uchida & the Flowers" with cover versions of western rock and pop music songs by Cream , Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix , among others . The band broke up and producer Uchida formed the Flower Travellin 'Band. The band went to Canada in 1970 and released their first album Anywhere , this time with covers of Muddy Waters , The Animals , Black Sabbath and King Crimson . In the music of the new band, guitarist Hideki Ishima, who also played sitar , and singer Joe Yamanaka played leading roles and, starting with the follow-up album Satori, developed the band's sound into a very original Japanese variant of hard rock .

In Canada, the band performed in front of tens of thousands of viewers, including as the opening act for the Canadian band Lighthouse and for Emerson, Lake and Palmer , their single Satori (Pt.1 / Pt. 2) reached the Canadian Top 10 .

In 1973 Flower Travellin 'Band returned to Japan, followed by the release of the double album Make Up with studio and live recordings. Soon after, the band stopped their activities. In 2007 there was a reunification, several tours and in 2008 the album We are here . Singer Joe Yamanaka was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010 and died in 2011.

reception

The music from the album Satori was used as the soundtrack of the Japanese gangster film Deadly Outlaw Rekka in 2002 .

In 2007 Julian Cope published a book, Japrocksampler: How the Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll, oriented towards culture and music history . The cover picture is the photo from the cover of FTB's debut album Anywhere , which shows the band members naked on motorcycles. The book contains an approx. 20-page chapter on FTB.

Discography

  • Anywhere (1970)
  • Satori (1971)
  • Made in Japan (1972)
  • Make Up (1973)
  • The Times: May 1971 – April 1974 (1975), best of album
  • We Are Here (2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flower Travellin 'Band: Biography on the band's homepage
  2. ↑ Hideki Ishima: Interview on "jrawk.com - japanese rock 'n' roll" ( Memento from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Reviews of Satori on the baby blue pages
  4. ↑ Sex, drugs and sitars , Japan Times
  5. ↑ Flower Travellin 'Band at Allmusic (English)
  6. ↑ www.japrocksampler.com
  7. ↑ Japrocksampler in the English language Wikipedia

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