Live At The Church

With Live At The Church, Krautfuzz documents an intense, entirely improvisation-based live session that showcases the band in its most elemental state: raw, open, and completely in the flow of the moment.

Krautfuzz here operates at the intersection of Krautrock, psychedelic rock, and free collective improvisation. The recording unfolds as a continuous arc of tension, where rhythmic motorik, trance-like repetitions, and eruptive outbursts interlock.

The album gains particular weight from the guest appearance of J. Mascis, whose characteristic guitar work further condenses the second half of the recording and leads into sometimes drastically distorted, almost noise-like soundscapes. It is precisely here that the sound increasingly shifts into a raw, unfiltered energy, oscillating between psychedelic expansion and controlled chaos.

The music unfolds organically over long periods, carried by a hypnotic foundation of bass and drums, over which guitar lines freely develop, shift, and intensify. Instead of classic song structures, a continuous live flow emerges, shaped equally by Krautrock tradition and contemporary noise and psych aesthetics.

Live At The Church is thus less a live album in the conventional sense than a documented state, a snapshot of collective intensity, where space, volume, and energy themselves become the actual material.

Recorded live on June 25, 2024, at the Genezareth Protestant Church, Berlin.

It's worth taking a look at the CD version: there you'll find a significantly longer version of the jam from Side B, which further extends the improvisational course and reveals additional facets of the performance.

LP on 180 gram black recycled vinyl made in Germany and limited to 500 copies!

Krautfuzz are
Dirk Dresselhaus – guitar, vocals
Derek Shirley – bass
Imari Kokubo – drums
J. Mascis – guitar (Side B)