Killing Time

by Massacre

Killing Time cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1981
  • Label: Celluloid
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:24
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Fred Frith, Fred Maher

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live in Paris, this album features the virtuosic, aggressively avant-garde power trio formed by Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, and Fred Maher. The intense collision of free improvisation, heavy rock dynamics, and angular dissonance stood as a cornerstone achievement of the New York downtown scene.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, dissonant, instrumental, avant-garde, noisy, complex, technical

Tracklist

  1. Legs (2:06)
  2. Ageing with Dignity (3:06)
  3. Subway Hearts (2:45)
  4. Killing Time (2:54)
  5. Corridor (1:58)
  6. Lost Causes (3:15)
  7. Not the Person We K (3:19)
  8. Bones (1:39)
  9. Tourism (4:12)
  10. Surfing (1:15)
  11. As Is (8:05)
  12. After (5:02)
  13. Gate (2:42)

Credits

  • Massacre - primary artist, music by [composed or improvised]
  • Bill Laswell - bass [4-string], 6-string bass, trumpet [pocket]
  • Jan Luss - cover
  • Fred Maher - drums, percussion
  • Fred Frith - guitar, voice, keyboards [cassiotone]

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