Flower Travellin' Band

Flower Travellin' Band was a Japanese rock group from Tokyo, assembled in 1969 by singer Yuya Uchida to reach audiences outside Japan. Their sound joined heavy rock, psychedelia and progressive forms with Eastern melodic elements, and they are best known for the 1971 album Satori, with Joe Yamanaka's vocals and Hideki Ishima's guitar. The band grew out of Uchida's earlier cover group, the Flowers, keeping only drummer Joji "George" Wada and adding Yamanaka, Ishima and bassist Jun Kobayashi.