Hideki Ishima is a Japanese guitarist, known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin' Band

Flower Travellin' Band

is a Japanese heavy psych outfit that was first active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They reunited in 2007. Vocalist Joe Yamanaka died on August 7, 2011 after a battle with lung cancer.-History:...

. He also plays an instrument he invented, the sitarla

Sitarla

The sitarla is an instrument invented by Hideki Ishima and Kenichi Hagiwara which combines aspects of the sitar with the solid body electric guitar.. It is a hollow-bodied instrument, and currently only two exist in the world. Ishima now plays the instrument exclusively, and it has replaced his...

, which is a combination of a sitar and an electric guitar.

Ishima was originally in a group called The Beavers, who had released some singles but not had major success.

After leaving Flower Travellin' Band, he recorded a solo album, One Day. Then he joined a group called Trans Am, followed by the Donjuan R&R Band with Kenichi Hagiwara. During the 1980s he was in Co-Colo along with Nobuhiko Shinohara. In 2000, he recorded the album More-ish with the group Pythagorus Party.

Discography

• One Day (1973)
• Japanesque (1984) (with Akira Ito and Joe Yamanaka
  Joe Yamanaka
  , better known as Joe Yamanaka, was a half Japanese and half African American singer, known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician. He was also an actor and appeared in many movies, such as Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka and the 1989 version of Zatoichi...