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Flower Travellin' Band
12+ albums
Psychedelic RockProgressive rockhard rockpsychedelicjapanese
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Flower Travellin' Band was an esoteric psychedelic rock outfit from Tokyo, Japan, first active from 1969 and early 1970s until 1973, consisting of Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals) (died 7 August 2011), Hideki Ishima (guitar), Joji "George" Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass). The band reunited in late 2007 , but permanently disbanded after the 2011 death of vocalist Joe Yamanaka. The band was initially organized by Japanese entertainer and entrepreneur Yuya Uchida (died 17 March 2019) as The Flowers, a cover band, and featured two vocalists - male vocalist Yuya Uchida, and female vocalist Remi Aso, who was touted as the Japanese version of Janis Joplin. Their first album consisted of covers of Western pop songs. It was primarily notable for the fact that all of the band members appeared nude on the cover, including Aso, which was considered scandalous at the time. However, after the "Flowers" album, Uchida lost interest and Aso drifted away. Meanwhile, Hideki Ishima and Joe Yamanaka bumped into each other in Shinjuku after departing from their respective GS bands (Hideki from The Beavers, and Joe from Four Nine Ace) and decided to start a band together. The result was a blues band called Mystic Morning. Uchida attended one of the concerts and decided to pick the two up for a new project which he wanted to be an "international group, one that could have appeal outside Japan." Their first release as Flower Travellin' Band was a single collaboration with famed jazz trumpeter/com
