Brötzmann and Haino have recorded together several times over the years-the same week this concert was held, the duo album Evolving Blush and Driving Original Sin was tracked, and the pair teamed up with drummer Charles Hayward for his album Double Agent(s): Live in Japan Volume Two.
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Indeed, perhaps the only man capable of withstanding the force of the group in full cry would be German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, who joins the trio on this three-disc, three-hour document of a single epic concert, recorded at Tokyo’s Hōsei University on April 26, 1996. Though Haino has been a willing-even eager-collaborator with many players from diverse backgrounds over the years, very few performers could match Fushitsusha’s energy. They could be furious, explosive, or crushingly sad. They might be built around headlong, nearly punk-rock riffing, or seem to come together with near-imperceptible slowness, like clouds of mist rising from the earth. Pieces might be three minutes long, or 75. Though their music was improvised, it was never aimless Haino was merely demonstrating that when one’s goal is purity, the path to it is constantly shifting. Clad in black, impassive and stoic, the bassist and drummer built seemingly rickety scaffoldings of rhythm that were revealed to be as powerful as suspension bridges once Haino ascended, guitar in hand, to unleash storms of raw sound on unprepared (for who could ever be prepared for an experience like this?) audiences in Japan and, eventually, Europe and America. Sure, there are antecedents to their mind-scraping, soul-searing roar: Blue Cheer’s in there, as is Hendrix circa 1970, when he’d given up the teeth-picking, amp-humping showmanship of 1967 and ’68 and aimed himself straight at the heart of the music, but nobody ever exploded the rock power trio form the way Keiji Haino, Yasushi Ozawa and Jun Kosugi did. No band on Earth has ever sounded like Fushitsusha. On April 26, 2014, Utech Records will release Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself, a three-CD live set by Fushitsusha with Peter Brötzmann.
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