Fushitsusha (1991 album) explained

Fushitsusha
Type:live
Artist:Fushitsusha
Cover:Fushitsusha_Live_2.jpg
Released:1991
Recorded:1991
Genre:Psychedelic rock
Length:146:56
Label:P.S.F. Records
Producer:Hideo Ikeezumi
Prev Title:1st
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Allegorical Misunderstanding
Next Year:1994

Fushitsusha (also known as Live 2) is a live album by the band Fushitsusha. It was released in 1991 by P.S.F. Records.[1] [2]

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, John Dougan called the album "Perhaps the best recording of Haino with Fushitsusha," and wrote: "This is careening, no-holds-barred improvisatory jazz-rock, part Sonny Sharrock, part heavy metal thunder, part '60s garage-rock rant. Haino's playing is jaw-droppingly great, making this a free music masterpiece."

Jon Dale of Red Bull Music Academy stated that the album "gracefully dismantles rock's archetypes with simple rhythmic conceits, traditional instrumental hierarchies and orderly, predictable rock dynamics," and called Haino's playing "incendiary, splitting off into vectors of no-mind, pre-syntactical gush."[3]

Writing for Burning Ambulance, Phil Freeman described the album as "mind-roasting," and called the band "a power trio that made an unholy loud noise, sometimes blasting away at punk-rock tempos and other times eschewing steady rhythm entirely, creating free spaces into which Haino hurled massive, wall-like power chords and jagged solos that sounded like Neil Young having a fatal aneurysm while onstage with Crazy Horse."[4]

The Chicago Readers Monica Kendrick noted that the album "comes closest to capturing the range of forms Fushitsusha's assault can take, from sparse and lovely song to crushing metablues to superheavy-metal power jam."[5]

Personnel

Fushitsusha
Technical personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fushitsusha: Live II . John . Fushitsusha . AllMusic . November 14, 2022.
  2. Web site: Fushitsusha: 不失者 . ArtistInfo . November 14, 2022.
  3. Web site: A Guide to Keiji Haino . Jon . Dale . October 16, 2014 . Red Bull Music Academy . November 14, 2022.
  4. Web site: Seijaku . Phil . Freeman . December 16, 2010 . Burning Ambulance . November 14, 2022.
  5. Web site: Visions of Volume . Monica . Kendrick . June 5, 1997 . Chicago Reader . November 14, 2022.