Flow (band)

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FLOW
Origin	Japan
Genres	Mixture rock, J-Rock, Indie rock, Alternative rock
Labels	Ki/oon records (Sony Music Japan)
Members	Vocal: Keigo Hayashi Vocal: Koshi Asakawa Guitar: Takeshi Asakawa Drum: Iwasaki Hiroshi bass: Gotou Yasutarou
Website(s)	Band's Official Site Sony Music's Official Site

FLOW (フロウ, FLOW^?) is a Japanese mixture rock band. They are part of Sony Music Japan's Ki/oon Records label.

1 History
2 Discography
3 External links

[edit] History

FLOW is a five-piece Japanese rock act made up of two MCs, a drummer, a bassist and a guitarist. The group's base was created in 1993 when brothers KOHSHI (elder: vocals) and TAKE (younger: guitar) began playing together. They formed FLOW in 1998, and were eventually joined by KEIGO (vocals), GOT’S (bass) and IWASAKI (drums; joined in 2000). In 2001, the band released its first Maxi single, "FLOW #0". The group then released two mini-albums within the same year, both of which took nationwide indie charts by storm.

“Okuru Kotoba”, FLOW's first cover single, was released in January 2003. It remained on the Oricon indie chart for seven consecutive weeks and also hit an impressive #6 on the overall singles chart. In the spring of that year, their first full-scale album “SPLASH!!!” debuted at #2.

In July 2003, FLOW released the single "BURASUTA" on a major label, Ki/oon Records. In April 2004, they released "Go!!!", which stayed on the Oricon Top 10 Chart for three weeks. In May 2004, FLOW released their first major album, entitled "GAME".

A string of horrible singles followed and in July 2005 the band released its third album, "Golden Coast." Since the release of "Golden Coast," FLOW has released two singles with new A-sides, but one of these ("Around the World/Kandata") was a double A-side release. "Colors" is the band's fourth single.The songs "GO!!!" and "Re:member" both served as opening themes to the anime series Naruto. "Days" was the first opening for BONES's Eureka Seven. FLOW performed COLORS in 2006, the first opening for Sunrise's original series, Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

'FLOW #0'
'SUNSHINE 60'
'Like a Rolling Snow' (27 November 2002)
'Okuru Kotoba' (15 January 2003)
'Merosu' (30 April 2003) - A limited 55,000 prints
'Burasuta' (2 July 2003)
'Dorimu Ekusupuresu' (18 September 2003)(Dream Express)
'Ryuusei / Syarirara' (18 February 2004)
'GO!!!' (28 April 2004) - Naruto 4th Opening Single
'Life is Beautiful' (3 November 2004)
'Rookie / STAY GOLD' (27 April 2005) - The theme song for the Korean movie "Make It Big" (일단 뛰어!)
'DAYS' (1 June 2005) - Eureka Seven 1st Opening Single
'Garden ~Summer Edit~' (3 August 2005)
'Re:member' (31 May 2006) - Naruto 8th Opening Single
'Around the World / KANDATA' (13 September 2006) - CM for Suzuki Swift
'COLORS' (8 November 2006) - Code Geass 1st Opening

[edit] Albums

SPLASH!!! - Harukanaru Jishuseisaku BEST- (21 May 2003)
GAME (26 May 2004)
Golden Coast (20 July 2005)
FLOW THE BEST ~Single Collection~ (20 December 2006)

[edit] DVD

The Play Off ~Game 1~ (1 December 2004)

[edit] Recent Activity

Flow performed live in America for the first time in Dallas Texas on (2 September 2006) at Anime Fest which was held at the Hyatt Hotel and Convention center in downtown Dallas.