''Fushitsusha'' (also known as ''Live 2'') is a live album by the band

Fushitsusha Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majo ...

. It was released in 1991 by

P.S.F. Records P.S.F. Records is a Japanese record label specialising in underground Psychedelic music, psychedelic and folk music, and free improvisation. The label was established in Tokyo by Hideo Ikeezumi (1949-2017) (生悦住英夫) with the philosophy "I on ...

Reception

In a review for

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, 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

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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." 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." The ''

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s 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."

Track listing

Personnel

;Fushitsusha *

Keiji Haino Keiji Haino ( ''Haino Keiji''; born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the ...

: guitar, vocals * Yasushi Ozawa: bass * Jun Kosugi: drums ;Technical personnel * Hideo Ikeezumi: production

References

{{Authority control 1991 live albums Fushitsusha albums P.S.F. Records albums