Flower Travellin Band - Satori
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Artist: Flower Travellin BandEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Phoenix Records
Soundtracks:
- Satori, Pt. 1
- Satori, Pt. 2
- Satori, Pt. 3
- Satori, Pt. 4
- Satori, Pt. 5
Music reviews of Satori
Music Review: oddly appealing, but also quite repetitive and dull
Rating: 3 Stars
I originally thought Satori was quite the spectacular album, but after a few serious listens a couple years later, I have to change my review and give it a more average and down to earth rating. Please keep in mind that with an album like this, a rating of 3 could *very* easily turn into a rating of 4 on any given day. This rating is most certainly NOT set in stone.
While the album does a fantastic job giving us a distinctly Japanese-sounding heavy rock jam album from the early 70's, that doesn't necessarily mean the jams themselves are particularly appealing. Or rather, as appealing to thousands of other bands at the time attempting the same thing.
A song like "Satori Part 3" features many Japanese guitar riffs that, at best, can be described as totally cliche and formulaic. If you were to sit there and think about the Japanese culture and their style of music, you can basically predict what some of these guitar riffs will sound like before even listening to them. That's cliche alright.
However, it's extremely hard for me to outright dismiss these guitar jams as secondrate, and that's because... what would this Satori album be secondrate to? What other rock band from Japan was *this* heavy back in the early 70's? What Japanese rock band from the 70's was as popular as the Flower Travellin' Band?
Not that Satori is a popular album in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly has a cult following which elevates its popularity a few notches higher compared to every other Japanese 70's band in existence (unless I'm forgetting an extremely obvious Japanese rock band, but I don't believe I am).
The bottom line to me is that the very best moments on Satori are when the band completely lets loose and just rips out a serious and heavy guitar solo. "Satori Part 4" has an amazing harmonica solo along with an equally memorable guitar jam, so this is my pick for best song on the album.
I'm also really fond of "Satori Part 2" mainly for the vocals and the way the drums and guitar really come together and work brilliantly the entire way through the song. I love this track.
Other than that, the Black Sabbath comparisons are overrated in my opinion, because only some of the drumming resembles the legendary classic Sabbath material. The guitar riffs are -without a shadow of a doubt- *extremely* Japanese-sounding, which results in you, the listener, either loving or hating them. Their repetitive and predictably written nature leads me to believe you won't find these guitar riffs very appealing in the long run. I could be wrong.
So yes, Satori is quite the hard album to review. I'm basically torn between two views. One- this sounds like nothing else from the early 70's thanks to a distinct Japanese style and atmosphere combined with lengthy guitar solos and riffs. Two- even though it sounds like nothing else from the early 70's, the songwriting will probably feel very familiar and predictable to you. I don't know what kind of rating Satori honestly deserves, so a 3 is probably the best bet.
Description of Satori
UK reissue of classic 1971 album from Japanese rock act that influenced metallers & hard rockers alike. Five tracks. Radioactive Records. 2004.Classic Rock CDs
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