Fushitsusha Nothing Changes 3CD

Fushitsusha –
Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything
I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself

Recorded at Hōsei University, Tokyo, April 26, 1996

Keiji Haino
Yasushi Ozawa
Jun Kosugi
Peter Brötzmann

In April 2014, Utech Records had the distinct pleasure to release the 3CD set Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself – a live performance of Fushitsusha with Peter Brötzmann from Tokyo in 1996. Many consider this to be peak-era Fushitsusha and while well documented, each release from this time period feels to be a revelation in its own right.

Utilizing materials from the original release as well as a recreated obi, Utech Records is happy make a small number of copies available for sale to the public. A unique opportunity to purchase this music.

This extremely limited edition release remains true to the original with art by Denis Forkas Kostromitin, liner notes by Alan Cummings and mastering by James Plotkin. Packaged in a heavy, full-color obi with tri-fold booklet, replica advert and engraved folder.

Special thanks to Keiji Haino and Caspar Brötzmann for making this possible.

No band on Earth has ever sounded like Fushitsusha. Sure, there are antecedents to their mind-scraping, soul-searing roar: Blue Cheer’s in there, as is Hendrix circa 1970, but nobody ever exploded the rock power trio form the way Keiji Haino, Yasushi Ozawa and Jun Kosugi did.

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. 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. Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself is unique in both the Fushitsusha and Brötzmann discographies. Fushitsusha have never sounded the way they do here.

There are many Fushitsusha live albums, but Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself may be the heaviest, the most overpowering, and at times the most beautiful of them all.