Flower Travellin' Band: Satori [MUNSTER]

Why you'll love it

Five parts, one colossal riff-storm: Flower Travellin' Band's second album is the high-water mark of Japanese heavy rock. Hideki Ishima's eastern-tinged guitar coils around Joe Yamanaka's banshee vocals, and Julian Cope put it at No. 1 in his Japrocksampler, calling it "a festival of guitar worship".

This edition

• 5 tracks

About the album

Recorded in 1970, reportedly in two days (one to record, one to mix), and produced by Yuya Uchida. Somewhere between Black Sabbath and a Zen koan, it's been sampled by Cypress Hill, covered by The Claypool Lennon Delirium and used as the entire score for Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka.

If you like your psych heavy, start here.

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Tracklist

1. Satori Part I
2. Satori Part II
3. Satori Part III
4. Satori Part IV
5. Satori Part V

On Munster Records, a reissue of the 1971 album.