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RELEASE DATE: 20/07/2021

MASSACRE  – Killing Time
Format: LPX2
Catalogue: SPITTLE67DLP
Barcode: 8033706210673


Back in print ! Spittle Records present an expanded reissue of Massacre's Killing Time, originally released in 1981. Following the breakup of Cambridge's avant-rock legends, Henry Cow, guitarist Fred Frith moved to NYC in 1979, and soon found himself deep in the heart of the city's robust post-punk and free-jazz scenes. He performed with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher, from the group Material, as a power trio of sorts under the moniker of Massacre. The group quickly garnered a reputation around town, and around the world for that matter, as a heavy and heady band that experimented greatly with rhythm, time signatures, and tone. As Frith himself put it, "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." Massacre released one album, Killing Time, before disbanding for nearly 20 years. Their first wave as a group crashed fast and furiously and this one album, recorded in part live in Paris, and in part at Brooklyn's OAO Studio, is a perfect encapsulation of early '80s NYC. In addition to the original album, first released on Celluloid in 1981, this deluxe three-sided double LP includes eight bonus tracks recorded live between '80 and '81 at The Stone in San Francisco, and Inroads and CBGB in NYC. Avant-jazz-post-punk-noise of the highest order from several legends and one of the most important projects Frith and Laswell were ever involved in.

Tracklist:

A1 Legs    
A2 Aging With Dignity       
A3 Subway Heart      
A4 Killing Time 
A5 Corridor      
A6 Lost Causes 
A7 Not The Person We Knew      
B1 Bones 
B2 Tourism      
B3 Surfing
B4 As Is   
B5 After   
B6 Gate   
C1 You Said     
C2 Know  
C3 Conversations With White Arc       
C4 Carrying     
C5 Bait    
C6 Third Street 
C7 3 O'Clock, June 21st, Get Down There And Do It   
C8 F.B.I.