Flower Travellin Band SATORI 1st JAPAN Press 1971 ATLANTIC Heavy Psych Prog RARE

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Over 100 rare vintage PROG, Krautrock, SPACE ROCK and Electronic Music LPs in this Auction series.
from 50+ years collection of decades-long radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector.
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All Auctions in this series start at 99¢ opening bid!
Everybody should have a good chance at taking a few of these treasures home.
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Mostly 1st PRESSING Vintage imports, including a few Private Press and Promo LPs
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A lot of 1st Press CANTERBURY, KRAUTROCK and Euro-Prog LPs - some SIGNED - this time around, plus much more.
including some VERTIGO Swirl, Green BRAIN, OHR, PDU, Deram, Crypto, Harvest, Cobra, Spalax, Caroline, Charisma, etc. labels.
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Many still in SHRINK WRAP. Several STILL SEALED.
Quite a few Sterling, Masterdisk and Monarch (USA) pressings in the mix!

SECURE, TOP LP Packing and Materials - 40+ years experience.

This listing is for:
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND
SATORI
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ATLANTIC Records P-8056A
Original 1971 issue Stereo LP
MADE in JAPAN
(No OBI)

VINYL is VG
Clean Vinyl with most of original Gloss; has scattered light surface lines that are almost entirely inaudible. Nothing feelable and nothing deep. LP plays way above its Visual Grade: mostly Clear, Bold, Strong EX to EX+ throughout with only very low background noise heard only between tracks and a few very quiet spots. PLAY TESTED - and it plays GREAT; no tics heard, no skips anywhere. Labels look bright and clean but show some spotting at angle to light.
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COVER is VG
Having to be strict here, due to a number of light age spots, mostly on back; far less than usually seen on this original issue - simply a fact-of-life occurrence with the cover stock material on this one. Beyond the age-spots it's quite solid with only a couple of bumped corners and a small spot of wear to spine. Spine titles quite legible. No creases, no writing and very minimal shelf wear. Inside Gatefold is superb, very close to Near Mint. No splits.


STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG



MONSTER HARD, HEAVY PSYCH / PROG from JAPAN - Original FIRST PRESS

"¥ 2,000" (yen) printed on the back cover.

"WARNER BROS.–PIONEER CORPORATION ◼ TOKYO, JAPAN" printed inside gatefold, with Warner Bros. logo to left.
"MADE BY WARNER BROS.–PIONEER CORPORATION, JAPAN UNDER LICENSE FROM ATLANTIC RECORDING COPR..."
printed on label inner rim text, at bottom.

MATRIX NUMBERS (STAMPED)
SIDE ONE: P-8056A1   4-1   1-A -  3    (1) 〄
SIDE TWO: P-8056A2      1-A -  2     (1) 〄

I have very rarely seen this [original issue] cover any cleaner - it seems that this cover stock material they used (quite porous) is a Dirt Magnet, and easily discolors from any moisture. This one has been inside a Japanese Mylar 'Flap-Seal' archival bag for decades - but obviously not for all of its life.

This PRESSING is a MONSTER. While there is plenty of light scattered surface marks, the LP plays like a crisp, clear, LOUD Thundering Storm.
Buyer will be delighted with the truly Top-shelf Sound Quality.
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AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek:
"Flower Travelling Band was Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin meeting Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath at the Ash Ra Temple. Simply put, they played grand, spacey, tripped-out hard Psych Rock with a riffy base that was only two steps removed from the blues, but their manner of interpreting those steps came from an acid trip. Flower Travelling Band was an entity unto itself. SATORI was originally released in 1971 as the band's second album proper.

The cover depicts a silhouette drawing of the Buddha in meditative equipoise filled in with sketches of an inner universe mandala of the sacred Mount Meru, stupas, and the hash smoking caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland, Japanese sci-fi robot cartoons, and more. And the music is reflected in this inner universal realm on five different sections of Satori. From power chords to Eastern-tinged, North African, six-string freakouts, to crashing tom toms, to basses blasting into the red zone, Satori is a journey to the center of someplace that seems familiar but has never before been visited. It is a new sonic universe constructed from cast-off elements of the popular culture of the LSD generation.

Forget everything you know about hard rock from the 1970s until you've put this one through your headphones. It's monolithic, expansive, flipped to wig city, and full of a beach blanket bong-out muscularity. In other words, this is a "real" classic and worth any price you happen to pay for it."
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INCREDIBLY SCARCE in any condition; this one Plays SUPERB.
If you've hunted this one, you may well know how much $$ that much lesser copies have sold for.
This one goes up with a crazy low starting price.

Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more Rare Vintage Collectible
PROG, KRAUTROCK, PROG-PSYCH, ELECTRONIC and SPACE-ROCK Import LPs.
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From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s.
Sadly he has now finally left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets,
plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.

Truly a great (and enormous) collection!
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