#flower travellin' band

[bonnieprincegnarly]

4 Album Tag

Thank you very much to @iamdangerace for tagging me in this for album challenge. I must say they have impeccable taste.

I haven't picked up any new albums of late so I'll instead refer to the records in my most recent rotation.

1. BAE - Yung Bae

While I was finishing up school I basically had this cued on repeat the entire time I was studying . The Future Funk tunes of everyone's favorite Flapjack impersonator kept laying down a stone-solid wave of chill as my crippling completion anxiety fleshed fully into gear every night. There's something about a dude in a lil baby sailor cap, sipping Modelo, and blasting anime tinged disco tracks that just calms the nerves.

2. Bites - Skinny Puppy

Nivek Oghr blasts past the ear canal and shocks the brain out of whatever stupor I find myself in @ 2am most nights. The electro-goblin caterwaulings of Canada's Finest remind me of high school, steel my nerves, and satiate my inner terrorist. Stay 'noided folks.

3. Urgh! A Music War

This is technically cheating. I don't have the album but I frequently put the concert film on while I'm working. Watching Sting play a full set is like watching a man stretch before a marathon and then set into a sprinter's pace with his eyebrows arched the whole time and nary a drop of sweat spilled . A lot of bassists put their ankles in it, and groove all out. Sting settles in for a rocking and just paces there with his baby elephant steps and stays that way for two hours. I wish the movie had the whole set. Also Lux Interior from The Cramps comes in later in the film and just murders a song in the most unhinged and sexual way possible. Perfect Film.

4. Satori - Flower Travellin' Band

There's a little seen Takashi Miike yakuza flick called Deadly Outlaw Rekka. The entire soundtrack to that movie is this album, Satori by Flower Travellin' Band. The tracks are labeled Satori I-V. This album is like if Black Sabbath was on even more drugs and was also Japanese. It goes hard and it makes me think of the opening of that yakuza flick were Riki Takeuchi takes a gainer through a double-paned observation mirror while screaming for revenge and getting restrained by like four dudes. I see you, buddy.

Tagging @omarandjohnny @satrallite @snakeoilghost @mindsdying because they were the most recent blogs on my activity notes.

#music #flower travellin' band #the cramps #the police #skinny puppy #yung bae

[dustedmagazine]

Writhing Squares — Mythology (Trouble In Mind)

If one wanted to know what 1971 sounded like — not the world outside so much as the broader weltgeist, especially the male one, with Cold War anxiety and light mystical curiosity mixed with unprocessed feelings about gender roles and a frankly reasonable fear of technological calamity— all transduced into sick octave-fuzz riffs and blasted through a tube amp one could do worse than to consult the archives of the Flower Travellin’ Band. That group, in addition to being extraordinary, leaves palpable historical artifacts of some complex feelings that were powerfully musicalized as hard rock, in similar ways from Tokyo to Birmingham to Los Angeles.

Notably, the ur-sounds of hard rock remain very much with us today, sometimes ironically and other times very seriously, doing different sorts of work for different artists as well as listeners. Writhing Squares, a Philadelphia duo, are firmly in this lineage, particularly with their new album, Mythology. The ethos of 1971 is all over the record’s eight tracks, from hulking guitar ostinatos to patchworks of feedback. There are aesthetic elaborations that harken to other times and ideas, perhaps most notably the occasional seeming reference to hardcore in the vocals as well as the regular presence of the saxophone in a James Chance vein, not to mention synths and drum machines here and there. Mythology is inventively sketched. It is not doctrinally 1971. But it is spiritually kindred to that time, in a palpable way, to the Flower Travellin’ Band’s Satori for instance, not to mention Aqualung and Fragile and Master of Reality. It revels in an aesthetic that confesses some vulnerability even as it takes license to scream its emotions as loud as the singer feels like.

The album is for the most part relentless, with nearly all of the tracks anchored by chunky guitar lines that operate like fugal phrases on which saxophone or voice build over time. The exceptions are the third track, “Ferrell,” which recedes into a low-key free jazz space, adding dramatic tension. (This is, as it happens, a move specifically reminiscent of the Flower Travellin’ Band). The other exception, the sixth track (“Chromatophage”), foregrounds bass and a virtuosic messiness in the manner of Sly Stone, another anchor of 1971 and its recognizable microvibe. Aside from these two tracks, though, the album runs at more or less maximum intensity throughout. By the time of the last track, “The Damned Thing,” it is no surprise to encounter an eight-minute jam that marries synth, sax and guitar, often playing the very same riff at the same time, falling into a kind of heavy oblivion, then brought to the finale by a fluttering flute. The shameless and undeniable silliness of that instrument is perhaps the most 1971 moment of all, a baroque gesture that seems to admit a softer side even as it functions as a set-up for one final, evil guitar sortie.  

Benjamin Tausig

#writhing squares #mythology #trouble in mind #ben tausig #albumreview #dusted magazine #flower travellin' band #1971 #hard rock #philadelphia

[elsotemo]

Satori

#Flower Travellin' Band #Satori #1971 #Japan #atlantic records #psychedelic rock #Joe Yamanaka #Hideki Ishima #Jun Kozuki #George Wada #Shinobu Ishimaru

[zombimanos]

Play this loud while you drive in the car and i assure you, you'll have a great time.

#flower travellin' band #satori #Youtube

[whitesalmanrushdie]

#music #flower travellin' band #Krautrock #i think #Youtube

[thespliffbunker]

This is a public service announcement…. with guitars!

#Japanese Psyche Rock #Satori #Joe Yamanaka #Flower Travellin‘ Band #Dig This!

[dry-valleys]

#music #flower travellin’ band #hard rock #70s music #Youtube

[nivekogresimp]

Japanese music > Korean music

Call me when South Korea makes music as half as good as Ningen-Isu, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Susumu Hirasawa, Boredoms, Tatsuro Yamashita, Tomoko Aran, GISM, Flower Travellin’ Band, Church of Misery, Les Rallizes Denudes, Acid Mother’s Temple, Sonic Flower, Shiina Ringo, Mono, Boris, Dissecting Table, Chu Ishikawa, Coffins, Far East Family Band, Yapoos, Guitar Wolf, The Stalin, Madame Edwarda, Eternal Elysium, Hantarash, Casiopea, Plastics, etc.....

#...what does south Korea have besides K-pop?

[repurposedmeatlocker]

3 and 9 :3

3. Heaviest rock song I love

9. Band I would've most loved to see live in their heyday Honestly, Daft Punk <33 I miss them

#thank youuu #asks

[snopek]

#prog rock #ten options means i couldn't include mountain or klaatu so imagine them as 11 and 12 #polls

[uneasylisteningradio]

Interjections! January 6, 2024

In memory of Essra Mohawk: Philadelphian, songwriter, singer and Schoolhouse Rocker!! I saved yeah, oh, hey and yeah for future shows! stream on Mixcloud

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Essra Mohawk - Interjections

DJ speaks over Charlie Parker's New Stars - Cheers

Kate Bush - Wow The Rutles - Ouch! Danny & The Parkins Sisters - Uh Uh Sad Boys - Yuck

DJ speaks over Stevie Wonder - Bam

Tammy Faye Bakker - Oops, There Comes a Smile Flower Travellin' Band - Aw, Give Me Air Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow Jacqueline Taïeb - Bravo West Five - Congratulations KRS-One - Uh Oh

Chumbawamba - Ugh! Your Ugly Houses! The Pixies Three - Gee East River Pipe - Ah Dictaphone Shonen Knife - Get the Wow Spread Joy - Ow Tommy Roe - Hooray for Hazel Young Canadians - Well, Well, Well

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Oops, I Did It Again Big Joe Turner - Well, All Right Le Tigre - Tres Bien Andy Kim - Gee Girl Half Japanese - Hot Dog and Hot Damn Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoot's Mon Nappy Brown - Well Well Baby Clark Equipment - Hooray for Human Engineering!

The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head Systematic Death - Cheers to Earth Wack Mags - Baby, Baby, Baby The Clique - Hallelujah! The Angels - Wow Wow Wee (He's The Boy For Me) Max and the Makeups - Hooray

Chicory Tip - Good Grief Christina Roy Fox - Smile Darn Ya Smile Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Boy, Can I Dance Good

The Dukes of Stratosphear - What in the World??

#radio #community radio #punk #music #playlist #post punk #wprb #new wave #hardcore punk #garage rock #interjections #funk #sunshine pop #bubblegum pop #glam rock #hip hop

[vanderlysposts]

Flower Travellin’ Band — Made In Japan 1972 (Japan, Heavy Prog/Psych Roc...

#Youtube

[sunseti]

#Spotify

[darkarfs]

If I were a wrestler, any one of these would be my theme: "Mermaid Love" - Man or Astro-Man? "God Is God" - Laibach "Satori Pt. 1" - Flower Travellin' Band "Pittsburgh to Lebanon" - Butthole Surfers "Goon Gumpas" - Aphex Twin

[thespliffbunker]

#Flower Travellin‘ Band #Japanese Psyche Rock #Satori #Joe Yamanaka #Dig This!

[dry-valleys]

#music #flower travellin’ band #hard rock #70s music #Classic Rock