Flower Travellin' Band

Under the name FLOWERS they released in 1969 their first album, titled "Challenge". It was more in a Psychedelic vein, not so heavy and varied like the following records. In 1970, Joe(vo), Hideki Ishima(g), Joji Wada(ds) and Jhun Kowzuki(b), released on Atlantic the second album "Anywhere", now under the whole name FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND. You find some coverversions from songs like "House of the rising Sun","Black Sabbath" or "21st Century Schizoid Man on it and "Anywhere" is together with the following album "Satori" their heaviest. It saw the light of day in 1971.
In 1972 they released the "Made in Japan" LP, again on the Japanese division of Atlantic . It's in the same vein as the forerunner album. Absolut heavy and filled with eastern influences.Together with "Satori", the band proved once again, that they were a strong unit. This was sadly the last album, but Atlantic released in 1973 the double record-set "Make Up". The album contains three live tracks, one of them is "Satori Part2". "Make Up" isn't so heavy as the forerunners, but still a good one. Aside of the music, the whole package was fantastic of "Make Up". The original album comes in a leather outer-bag and fold-out cover. I don´t know,when the band split-up and if the members still make music today,but FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND will have their place in the history of progressive Heavyrock. They played interesting music, a lot of good songs.