Satori: the Peer Gynt of rock music
A piece of musical history today: the album Satori (1971) by the Flower Travellin’ Band, here performed live some ten years ago by the group of distinguished elderly gentlemen the band is today.
This one’s been hiding on my iPod for a few years until it passed me by while I was working on something and it struck me what a genius piece of soaring, sensational metal-psychedelica this is. An eclectic mix of traditional and modern music styles from both the East and the West. This is kind of like a Peer Gynt of rock music.
Director Takashi Miike, he of Ichi the Killer and Audition, used the complete album for his 2002 movie Deadly Outlaw: Rekka almost twenty years after it’s release.
Listen to the digitally remastered version of Satori here. (PB)





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