Moving from acoustic ballads and oddly tuned instrumentals to electrified country and Kinksian pop the album projects a kind of psych/folk/rock hybrid

with the same band at Ol Elegante Studios in Homewood

One source of these gorgeous instrumentals is "Peach

That is why I named the album ‘Closer’

Your body is breaking down

JOE WITH THE FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND - The Times CD Pop Moving from acoustic ballads andAlthough post Group Scene band Flowers were gaining increasing popularity in late '60s Tokyo, founder and guiding light Yuya Uchida was becoming increasingly frustrated that cult status was not translating into commercial success. Watching a rehearsal for the Tokyo version of the hit U. S. musical Hair, Uchida's wily gaze fell upon the Afro sporting cast member Yamanaka Akira aka Joe. Uchida liked what he saw and heard so much, that he invited Joe to