Satori (Flower Travellin' Band album)

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Satori is the second album by the Japanese rock group Flower Travellin' Band. It was released in 1971 by Atlantic Records in Japan. The album was re-issued to an english audience by Radioactive Records in 2003.

Production

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The song Satori Pt.3 was later reimagined into their staple song Hiroshima, on the Made In Japan album.

Reception

Although the album wasn't released to an American audience until 2003, Satori had critical acclaim on its re-issue. David Fricke of Rolling Stone stated Satori as his "favorite Japanese rock album of all time". Allmusic gave the album 4½ stars out 5 and made it their pick as the band's top album calling it "a real classic"..

Canadian Release

The Canadian version of "Satori" contained only "Satori Pt. 1", "Satori Pt. 2" and Satori Pt. 5" (retitled here as "Satori Part III") from the original Japanese LP and were remixed to considerably reduce the howl of both guitars and vocals. It's rounded out with 4 tracks from "Made In Japan": "Kamikaze," Hiroshima," "Unaware," "Gimme Air" as well as the sitar-laden "Lullaby."

The album details are as follows:

Track listing

Side One

Satori Part I (Hideki Ishima) 3:38
Kamikaze (Hideki Ishima, Yoko Nomura) 4:20
Satori Part II (Hideki Ishima) 3:37
Hiroshima (Hideki Ishima, Yoko Nomura) 5:15

Side Two

Unaware (Hideki Ishima, Yoko Nomura) 5:55
Gimme Air (Hideki Ishima, Brenda Hoffert, Yoko Nomura) 3:15
Satori Part III (actually Satori Part 5) (Hideki Ishima) 4:00
Lullaby (Larry Green, Brenda Hoffert, Yoko Nomura) 2:35

Credits

Produced by Paul Hoffert and Yuya Uchida
Photographs by Michaela Puthon
Album design by Paul Weldon
All selections published by Walden Music Inc, ASCAP
Hideki Ishima - Guitar
Shigeyuki Kobayashi - Bass
Masami Wada - Drums
Akira Yamanaka - Vocals

Map track

Some CD reissues of Satori feature the bonus track Map, which was released in another form on the Kirikyogen album. This version of Map was original released as a single.

Lullaby track

The track Lullaby was also recorded at this time, and was released on the Canadian version of the Satori album, as well as the b-side for the Canadian 45 rpm single for "Satori Part 2." (labelled Satori (Enlightenment), and running 3:32). It it a traditional Japanese sounding song, with sitar. The writing credits on the 45 are (L. Green, Y. Nomura, B. Hoffert), and the song's length is 2:44. The song is arranged by H. Ishima and produced by P. Hoffert.

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Flower Travelin' Band

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Satori, Pt. 1"	5:25
2.	"Satori, Pt. 2"	7:06
3.	"Satori, Pt. 3"	10:44
4.	"Satori, Pt. 4"	11:01
5.	"Satori, Pt. 5"	7:58

Personnel

The band

Technical staff

Recorded Covers

Texas based Hardcore/Metal band IRON AGE recorded a cover of SATORI PT. 1 on their 7" entitled "The Way Is Narrow"

The Portland based Instrumental Post-Rock band Grails did their own cover on their release entitled "Interpretations of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs From Around the World"

References

"Ask David Fricke: "Fricke's Picks" Columnist and Rolling Stone Senior Editor Answers Your Questions : Rolling Stone".
"allmusic ((( Satori > Overview )))".
http://www.japrocksampler.com/artists/japrock/flower_travellin_band/?showImg=977
GRT records of Canada Ltd 9230-1005
http://www.joe-yamanaka.com/2_disco/single/disco_single_4.htm
http://www.joe-yamanaka.com/2_disco/album/disco_album_4.htm
GRT records 1230-06

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