Massacre-KILLING TIME (OAO-Celluloid) 1981

Massacre - Killing Time (OAO/Celluloid) 1981

Today is Fred Frith's 63rd Birthday.

Album cover has no notes to speak of. This info from wiki:

Guitarist Fred Frith, who was a co-founder of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, moved to New York City in 1979 after Henry Cow split up. There he met and began performing with bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher, both of the jazz ensemble Material. In 1980, when Peter Blegvad was looking for an opening band for his Valentine’s day concert at Soundscape in New York, Frith volunteered and invited Laswell and Maher to join him as a power trio they called Massacre. The band was well received and soon began performing at venues all over New York City.

Massacre was a high-energy experimental rock band, manipulating rhythm and timbre freely. They intended to recapture the raw energy of early rock and roll, adding elements of improvisational jazz. Frith told Down Beat magazine in 1982 (after Massacre had split up):
“Massacre was formed to play the kind of loud and energetic racket that you hear in clubs. The group was a direct response to New York. [It was] a very aggressive group, kind of my reaction to the whole New York rock club scene.”

In 1981 (This, The first formation of Massacre) released their only album, comprising studio recordings made at Martin Bisi's studio in Brooklyn, New York City in June 1981, and live recordings from their Paris concerts in April 1981. They also featured on one side of Frith's 1981 solo album Speechless. Massacre's farewell performances took place at Manhattan's Inroads performance space over the course of a July 4 weekend in 1981 (July 2–4), after which Maher left and the band split up.

In 1983 what was left of Massacre joined The Golden Palominos, founded by drummer Anton Fier.

In 1998 The band reformed with Charles Hayward on drums and recorded three more c.d.'s.over the next few years.

Massacre-KILLING TIME:

Side One:

1- Legs
2- Aging With Dignity
3- Subway Heart/
Killing Time
5- Corridor/
Lost Causes/
Not The Person We Knew

Side Two:

8- Bones
9- Tourism/
Surfing
11- As Is
12- After/
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Fred Frith – guitar, Casio, radio, voice, WWII pilot's throat microphone
Bill Laswell – 4 and 6 string bass guitars, pocket trumpet
Fred Maher – drums, percussion
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