Killing Time (Massacre album)

Infobox Album
Name = Killing Time
Type = Studio album
Artist = Massacre


Background = orange
Released = 1981
Recorded = France, April 1981,
United States, June 1981
Genre = Avant-progressive rock
Length = 45:43
Label = Celluloid Records (France)
Producer = Fred Frith
Reviews =
*"Allmusic" Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:veom96bo3ep7 link]
*Piero Scaruffi (6/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/laswell.html link]
*"Pitchfork" (8.2/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20283-killing-time link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|cgurl=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2264&name=Massacre| Last album = –
This album = "Killing Time"
(1981)
Next album = "Funny Valentine"
(1998)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Fred Records
Type = Studio
Last album = "Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds"
(2005)
Skeleton Crew
(RēR/FRO 8/9)
This album = "Killing Time"
(2005)
Massacre
(RēR/FRO 10)
Next album = "Impur"
(2006)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRFC 01) Extra album cover
Upper caption = CD releases
Background = CadetBlue


Lower caption = Fred Records CD release.

"Killing Time" is an album by avant garde, experimental power trio Massacre, with guitarist Fred Frith, bassist/producer Bill Laswell, and drummer Fred Maher. It was the first and only album produced in a series of four with the original line-up. It consists of a compilation of recordings made at Martin Bisi's studio in Brooklyn, New York in June 1981, and live recordings taken from their April 1981 Paris concerts. The group disbanded shortly after eventually reforming in 1998 with Charles Hayward replacing Maher on drums and further recording three more albums.

"Killing Time" was well received in progressive music circles, becoming a "hugely influential album" [ cite web
url=http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=13644 |title="Killing Time" |work=Prog Archives |first=Chris |last=Gleeson |accessdate=2007-02-05 ] and a "RIO classic". [ cite web |url=http://www.gepr.net/mas.html |title=Massacre |work=New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock |first=Achim |last=Breiling |accessdate=2007-02-05 ] Originally released on the OAO imprint (a sub-division of Celluloid Records), it is considered to be one of the most important pieces of music to expose the gritty, downtown Manhattan, no-wave scene during the early 1980´s. Due to popular demand, it was re-issued on RecRec Music in 1993 with six extra tracks, and on Fred Records in 2005 with eight extra tracks, including a cover of "F.B.I" by The Shadows.

Track listing

Side One
#"Legs" (Massacre) – 2:13 ^a
#"Aging With Dignity" (Massacre) – 3:18 ^a
#"Subway Heart" (Massacre) – 2:59 ^b
#"Killing Time" (Massacre) – 3:07 ^a
#"Corridor" / "Lost Causes" / "Not The Person We Knew" (Massacre) – 9:15 ^b
#"Bones" (Massacre) – 1:48 ^aSide Two
#"Tourism" (Massacre) – 4:34 ^b
#"Surfing" (Massacre) – 1:19 ^a
#"As Is" (Massacre) – 8:49 ^b
#"After" (Massacre) – 5:29 ^b
#"Gate" (Massacre) – 2:52 ^a

Track Notes

^a Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, June 1981.
^b Recorded live at 24 Rue Dunois, Paris, April 1981.

Personnel

*Fred Frith – Burns Black Bison guitar, Casio, radio, voice, WWII pilot's throat microphone
*Bill Laswell – 4 and 6 string bass guitars, pocket trumpet
*Fred Maher – drums, percussion

ound

*Jean-Marc Foussat – Paris
*Martin Bisi – New York City

CD reissues

In 1993 RecRec Music re-issued "Killing Time" on CD with six extra tracks:
#"You Said" (Massacre) – 1:47 ^c
#"Know" (Massacre) – 2:16 ^d
#"Conversations With White Arc" (Massacre) – 1:14 ^e
#"Carrying" (Massacre) – 1:44 ^d
#"Bait" (Massacre) – 1:59 ^c
#"3 O'Clock, June 21st, Get Down There and Do It" (Massacre) – 1:34 ^f

In 2005 Fred Records re-issued the album on CD with the above six extra tracks, plus two addition tracks:
#"Third Street" (Massacre) – 4:21 ^d
#"F.B.I." (Welsch, Marvin, Harris, arr. Massacre) – 3:10 ^d

"Conversations With White Arc" originally appeared on Fred Frith's solo album "Speechless" (1981). The Fred Records issue was a re-mastered copy of the original 1982 Japanese release on Recommended Records Japan. It also corrected the original LP's 11 tracks so as to be heard as originally intended, namely "at the correct speed and pitch and without added reverb". ["Killing Time" (2005, Fred Records)]

Track notes

^c Recorded at Inroads, New York City, July 1981.
^d Recorded live at 24 Rue Dunois, Paris in April 1981.
^e Recorded live at CBGB, New York City in April 1980.
^f Recorded at Stone Club, San Francisco in June 1981.

References

External links

*amg | id = 10:veom96bo3ep7 | label = Killing Time
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]