Anywhere (Flower Travellin' Band album)

Anywhere
Studio album by Flower Travellin' Band
Released October 21, 1970 (1970-10-21)
Genre
Length 47:49
Label Philips
Producer
Flower Travellin' Band chronology
Challenge!
(1969)		 Anywhere
(1970)		 Satori
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Anywhere is a 1970 album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band.[2] It was their first release under the Flower Travellin' Band name and the first to feature the classic line-up of Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Jun Kozuki and Joji Wada. AllMusic rated the album 3 out of 5 stars, describing the music as a "unique mixture of progressive daring, psychedelic eccentricity, and muscular, heavy rock austerity".[1]

Overview

Following the release of Challenge!, Yuya Uchida dropped all the members of Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, except drummer George Wada, recruited guitarist Hideki Ishima, vocalist Joe Yamanaka and bassist Jun Kobayashi, and formed the Flower Travellin' Band as a band that would appeal to international audiences.

Anywhere was made to emulate the band's previous release Challenge! by mainly consisting of cover songs and nude cover art, before releasing their first original album, Satori, shortly after. The cover was taken early in the morning at a former garbage dump in the seaside area that would later become Odaiba.[3] It was used as the cover for Julian Cope's 2007 book Japrocksampler.[4]

Track listing

Side A
No. Title Length
1. "Anywhere"   0:52
2. "Louisiana Blues" (Muddy Waters cover) 15:49
3. "Black Sabbath" (Black Sabbath cover) 8:53
Side B
No. Title Length
4. "House of the Rising Sun"   7:41
5. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (King Crimson cover) 13:25
6. "Anywhere"   0:57

Credits

References

  1. 1 2 Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Flower Travellin' Band // フラワー・トラヴェリン・バンド". Flowertravellingband.com. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ "We just stopped, took a break. It turned out to be for 36 years!". jrawk.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-01. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  4. ↑ "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Flower Travellin' Band – Satori". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
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