Love Live Life + One - Love Will Make A Better You (1970)
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Recipe for Love Will Make A Better You:

* Take as your base one Ikuzo Orita - Polydor Records label boss, forger of a 'unique Japanese underground culture' and producer for the renowned Foodbrain label and it's ambitious 'super sessions'.

* Add the highly adept jazz-trained backing band and ferocious horn-section of national pop star/crooner Akira Fuse, aka The Japanese Tom Jones. Whisk.

* Pour in jazz-guitar mentalist Takao Naoi.

* Simmer and stir for 48.2 hours in desire to create fusion of Sun Ra free-jazz with psychedelia, heavily distorted guitars and tight, stomping soul sounds.

* Sauté in ungodly super-sessions and liquid LSD.

* For want of a rock vocalist fit to complement the dish, use Akira Fuse, aforementioned household name and family favourite. Throw in preheated oven and drive off a cliff in a hippy VW. On fire.

* Later, sift through the wreckage and recover the completed record. Reheat in microwave then listen (just don't try eating it)... instant classic!

No video for this unfortunately, you'll have to take my word for it!

4.4/5.0


BUT here's a video of Fuse doing his thang, with music typical of the Ventures-inspired, sanitized instrumental rock that was the Japanese public's staple diet. Meanwhile the West was moving on with records like Revolver and Pet Sounds. Needless to say Love Live Life sounds a bit different.