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01. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE - The Question Mark
02. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE - Runnin' Free
03. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE - Love Will Make A Better You
04. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE - Shadows Of The Mind
05. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE - Facts About It All
ARTIST
TITLE
Love Will Make A Better You
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ASH 3031LP ASH 3031LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/27/2010

2012 repress. Phoenix Records releases a fully-remastered edition of the 1971 sole album by Love Live Life + One. There were several progressive psychedelic groups in Japan in the early '70s including the short-lived Love Live Life + One. The band played a few live gigs and released this lone album before disbanding. The group consisted of 9 musicians and the "plus one" seems to refer to vocalist Akira Fuse who had been a pop vocalist since the mid-'60s, appearing on albums since 1967. Most of the musicians were obscure except for keyboard player Hiro Yanagida, who was a member of the highly-acclaimed Foodbrain and later Strawberry Path, whose album When The Raven Has Come To The Earth was released the same year as Love Will Make A Better You, and guitarist Kimio Mizutani who was in the band People that released the massively rare Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock. Love Live Life + One's only record is a mix of blues-based psychedelia that pushes into progressive and even avant-garde realms at times, while the skronky sax-playing even recalls the edgier end of the jazz spectrum. An original, innovative and extremely rare piece of Japanese psychedelia. Limited edition pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork and the original illustrated LP lyric sheet.