Meltdown

by Massacre

Meltdown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 November 2001
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:07:37
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Charles Hayward, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Meltdown' documents Massacre, the trio of Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Charles Hayward, live at the Meltdown festival in London. Their improvisational rock fuses noise, funk and avant-garde strategies at high volume.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, avant-garde, noisy, live, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Up for It / Song for Che / Closing Circles and Loose End (20:37)
  2. Hover (3:49)
  3. For Good and Scatter (10:25)
  4. Figure Out (25:23)
  5. The Empire Strikes Back (2:06)
  6. Over (5:15)

Credits

  • Charles Hayward - drums, voice, melodica, songwriter [titles by]
  • Bill Laswell - electric bass, songwriter [titles by]
  • Fred Frith - electric guitar, songwriter [titles by]
  • Charlie Haden - songwriter [titles by]
  • Oz Fritz - engineer [concert sound], recorded by [drt recording]

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