Label: Les Disques Victo Catalog ID: CD 060 Squidco Product Code: 729
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 1998 Country: Canada Packaging: Jewel Tray Recorded live at the 14th Festival International de Musique Actuelle at Victoriaville, Canada March 16, 1997.
"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