Flower Travellin' Band has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 31 episodes and was first played on 22 July 2014.

Flower Travellin' Band was an esoteric psychedelic rock outfit from Tokyo, Japan, first active from 1969 and early 1970s until 1973, consisting of Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals) (died 7 August 2011), Hideki Ishima (guitar), Joji "George" Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass). The band reunited in late 2007 , but permanently disbanded after the 2011 death of vocalist Joe Yamanaka.

The band was initially organized by Japanese entertainer and entrepreneur Yuya Uchida (died 17 March 2019) as The Flowers, a cover band, and…