''Anywhere'' is a 1970 album by Japanese rock band

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. It was their first release under the Flower Travellin' Band name and the first to feature the classic line-up of

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, 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".

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

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, ''

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'', shortly after. The cover was taken early in the morning at a former garbage dump in the seaside area that would later become

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. It was used as the cover for

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's 2007 book ''

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''.

Track listing

Credits

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music ( arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

* Hideki Ishima –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six string instrument, strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or Plucked string instrument, plucking the strings with the dominant hand, w ...

* Jun Kozuki –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

* Joji Wada – drums * Tadataka Watanabe - producer * Yuya Uchida - producer * Norio Yoshizawa -

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the lim ...

* Tatsuo Umetsu - engineer * Masaichiro Fukami - artwork * Kishin Shinoyama - photography * Makoto Saito - photography

References

{{Authority control Flower Travellin' Band albums 1970 debut albums Covers albums Philips Records albums