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ARTIST
MASSACRE
TITLE
Killing Time
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
SPITTLE RECORDS
CATALOG #
SPITTLE 067LP
SPITTLE 067LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/10/2017
2023 restock. . 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. The back cover states: "In contrast to previous CD and LP versions, the Killing Time LP cuts are heard here as originally intended, at the correct speed and pitch and without added reverb."
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