Love Live Life + One"Love Will Make A Better You" 1971 Japan mega rare Psych Prog.
no 6 best Japanese Psych Rock albums in list top 50 by Julian Cope.
Love Live Life +1 was one of these "super sessions" which were huge in Japan in the early seventies. Its legacy? A mighty impressive, soulful album filled to the brim with freaky cosmic rhythm & blues. Title track Love Will Make A Better You makes one think of a Sly & The Family Stone from the land of the rising sun. Dig these horns and way-out-there guitars, brothers and sisters! -
Really wigged out Japanese psych band from 1971 that subscribed to the "wall of sound" theory. Featuring a flautist and two saxophonists in addition to the usual drums, organ, guitar, piano and bass, Love Will Make a Better You is a rather mixed bag of music, ranging from bluesy psych to free jazz excursions somewhere between Coltrane and Coleman. This wild use of horns and flute lends a very avant/prog aura to the album, particularly if it is viewed as a psych album. In comparison to the grungy, bluesy psych from Japan in the early '70s, Love Live Life + One were actually quite experimental. In fact, though they don't sound like them, I was vaguely reminded of the experimental side of the Soft Machine. The English lyrics are pretty hippie/trippy and aren't worth writing about other than a rather unique delivery style. Unless you know you liked wigged out psych with an experimental touch, try before you buy. - New Gibraltar Encyclopedia Of Progressive Rock
Love Live Life + One – a great group who recorded only one album that I know of for certain, 'Love Will Make A Better You' [King, 1971]. As well as some searing fuzzed-out psych rockers and more orchestrated progressive psychpop, the highlight of the album is the side-long piece 'The Question Mark'. This begins as a kind of free-form freakout, developing into manic psychedelic/progressive jazzy jamming, with proficient playing from all musicians. Guitarist Kimio Mizutani shortly after went on to play on the People album and record an excellent solo album. Keyboardist Hiro Yanagida[previously with Apryl Fool & Foodbrain]resumed his solo career. There are reputedly two more Love Live Life albums [without the '+ One'], '10 Chapters of Murder' aka 'Satsujin Jissho' [1974] and 'Rock in Bacharach' [1975] - Chris McLean.
Chito Kawachi - drums
N. Kawahara - latin percussion
Masaoki Terakawa - bass
Takao Naoi - guitar
Kimio Mizutani - guitar
Hiro Yanagida - keyboards
Kosuke Ichihara - sax and flute
Toshiaki Yokota - soprano sax and flute
Akira Fuse - vocals