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FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND - Satori LP minimal There’s a little bit of1971's Satori is a conceptual hard rock psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass and Yamanaka's banshee like vocal style which was turning him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Robert Plant while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin.