Anywhere is a 1970 album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band.[2] It was their first release under the Flower Travellin' Band name and the first to feature the classic line-up of Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Jun Kozuki and Joji Wada. AllMusic rated the album 3 out of 5 stars, describing the music as a "unique mixture of progressive daring, psychedelic eccentricity, and muscular, heavy rock austerity".[1]

Anywhere
Studio album by Flower Travellin' Band
Released	October 21, 1970 (1970-10-21)
Studio	Nippon Victor Studio
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal psychedelic rock progressive rock
Length	47:49
Label	Philips
Producer	Yuya Uchida Tadataka Watanabe
Flower Travellin' Band chronology
Challenge! (1969) Anywhere (1970) Satori (1971)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Overview

Following the release of Challenge!, Yuya Uchida dropped all the members of Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, except drummer Joji Wada, recruited guitarist Hideki Ishima, vocalist Joe Yamanaka and bassist Jun Kozuki, and formed the Flower Travellin' Band as a band that would appeal to international audiences.

Anywhere was made to emulate the band's previous release Challenge! by mainly consisting of cover songs and nude cover art, before releasing their first original album, Satori, shortly after. The cover was taken early in the morning at a former garbage dump in the seaside area that would later become Odaiba.[3] It was used as the cover for Julian Cope's 2007 book Japrocksampler.[4]

Track listing

Credits

• Joe Yamanaka – vocals, harmonica
• Hideki Ishima – guitar
• Jun Kozuki – bass
• Joji Wada – drums
• Tadataka Watanabe - producer
• Yuya Uchida - producer
• Norio Yoshizawa - engineer
• Tatsuo Umetsu - engineer
• Masaichiro Fukami - artwork
• Kishin Shinoyama - photography
• Makoto Saito - photography

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