Love Live Life's 10 Chapter of Murder, by request

Somebody requested this a while back and I only just remembered about it.  Amazing how slowly the brain works sometimes.  How it succeeded in bringing back the latent memory indelible in the hippocampus is just amazing.  Good thing I'm not about to become a judge and have to remember precedents.  From discogs:

Love Live Life were an important seminal hub of Japanese rock, a stepping stone between the beat of the 1960s and more experimental rock of the 1970s. They are best-known for the heavy blues rock album Love Will Make A Better You, featuring guest star Kimio Mizutani. However they made another album largely devoid of English text on the cover, mysteriously titled 10 Chapters Of Murder - from Colin Wilson's "Encyclopaedia of Murder" according to the labels, which was some sort of conceptual rock outing with brassy, jazz and soul elements.

Personally I was really and totally underwhelmed with the quality of the music here, it's pretty ordinary jazz-rock of a variety that was common in the late 60s on soundtracks, with very little of the subtlety of the Now '75 compositions.  They throw in the perfunctory dixieland, the crazy yelling, Sousa-like martial music, gunshot sounds, references to familiar songs (The Shadow of Your Smile is quoted on one track) the kind of unmusical zany stuff that was so common back then, but the music itself is completely interchangeable with some of the worst Akira Ishikawa records I posted before.  If you look on discogs's release page here notice the record still sells in the hundreds, proving to me once again how quality of music bears no correlation whatsoever with price as we've seen time and time again (cf. Rhea, the Metaphysical Animation (sold for thousands!), etc.)  I'm guessing part of the attraction of this has to do with the creepy subject matter. 

Also, notice too that Kosuke Ichihara who appeared on Now '75 is on here, along with Shigenori Kamiya who made a nice electronic album called Mu in 1980.  A typical track called Chill at Foggy Night:





Of course when you look online, it's a totally different story, consider the following rabid and hyperventilating quasi-delirious review:

750. LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE: “Satsujin Juushou – 10 Chapters of Murder” (CBS Sony – SOLL-74002) (Record: Near Mint/ Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint/ Insert: Near Mint). Their follow-up to the highly acclaimed “Love Will Make A Better You”. Unlike its predecessor, “10 Chapters of Murder” is more progressive heavy rock tinted. Released in 1972,“Satsujin Juushou” is a  killer LP, taking off where “Love Will Make a Better You” left off and taking towards the next level of delirious madness, mixing outward bound jazzy moves with heavy progressive rock freak-outs and psychedelic incantations and private ecstatcies. Kimio Mizutani’s wrist-slashing fuzzy guitar licks wah’s through it all like a surgeon operating on some defractored brain, Hammond organ lines slice through it all and heavy horn sections give it a LSD soaked mid seventies Miles Davis kind of vibe you won't be able to recover from without leaving behind a piece of your sanity. Demented howling female laughing vocals pop on through at unexpected times, rendering the whole into an even more disjointed teeth-grinding frenzy, all fused in a cloud of smoke, making it a stranger fusion of fucked up eclectic jazz moves, with unhinged psychedelic rock jamming and transporting it into driven jams of explosive jazzed out cosmic rock. The whole disc is booming over with the proper ingredients for a musical outrage, fucking up with and fusing musical traditions and stranding in a hazy but potent universal horizon obscured by mind bending lysergic mutations and sweating out heavy psychedelics. In short this is a fucking MONSTER. One of the best and still undetected Japanese heavy psychedelic & transcendental jaw-dropping jazzy explorations, all embalmed into one cinematic epiphany meshed together into intoxicating boosted crescendos of crystalline hallucinogenic quivering sonic attacks. Head-spinning, mind-altering freeform psyched out jazz rock, a vicious musical beast from the east, still undetected, bloody rare and unreissued. Highest possible recommendation. Price: 875 Euro

The lysergic-soaked bath is actually taking place in the reviewer's house, not so much on the record.
I'm guessing some of those hundreds of euros went to paying the writer or perhaps paying for his stash.