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Label: Victo Country: Canada

"Also performing was Mr. Haino, who sings in a ghostly choirboy voice with his deafeningly loud Japanese improvising rock trio, Fushitsusha. The mysterious Mr. Haino, who never appears without sunglasses, an all-black getup and a wooden walking staff (to direct the band through Noh-like dramatic routines), is another perfect example of "actuelle" logic. He is a musician in his late 40's whose influences are, in no-particular order, Iannis Xenakis's electro-acoustic music, Gregorian chant, the sludgy proto-heavy-metal band Blue Cheer and the Japanese improvised-rock scene of the late 1960's. "But if someone calls me a blues musician," he mused very late Friday night in his hotel room, sunglasses still affixed, "I am very happy.""-Ben Ratliff, New York Times