Killing Time (Massacre album)

Killing Time
Studio album by Massacre
Released 1981
Recorded France, April 1981
United States, June 1981
Genre Avant-rock
Length 45:43
Label Celluloid Records (France)
Producer Fred Frith
Massacre chronology
Killing Time
(1981)		 Funny Valentine
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi (6/10)[2]
Pitchfork Media (8.2/10)[3]
Robert Christgau (B+)[4]

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 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"[5] and a "RIO classic".[6] Originally released in France on Celluloid Records and later reissued in Japan on Recommended Records and in the US on OAO, 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 1980s. 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.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Legs" (Massacre) – 2:13 a
  2. "Aging With Dignity" (Massacre) – 3:18 a
  3. "Subway Heart" (Massacre) – 2:59 b
  4. "Killing Time" (Massacre) – 3:07 a
  5. "Corridor" / "Lost Causes" / "Not The Person We Knew" (Massacre) – 9:15 b
  6. "Bones" (Massacre) – 1:48 a

Side two

  1. "Tourism" (Massacre) – 4:34 b
  2. "Surfing" (Massacre) – 1:19 a
  3. "As Is" (Massacre) – 8:49 b
  4. "After" (Massacre) – 5:29 b
  5. "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

Sound

CD reissues

In 1993 RecRec Music re-issued Killing Time on CD with six extra tracks:

  1. "You Said" (Massacre) – 1:47 c
  2. "Know" (Massacre) – 2:16 d
  3. "Conversations With White Arc" (Massacre) – 1:14 e
  4. "Carrying" (Massacre) – 1:44 d
  5. "Bait" (Massacre) – 1:59 c
  6. "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:

  1. "Third Street" (Massacre) – 4:21 d
  2. "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".[7]

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

  1. ^ Anderson, Rick. "Killing Time". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r12539. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
  2. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. "Bill Laswell". The History of Rock Music. http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/laswell.html. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
  3. ^ Leone, Dominique. "Killing Time". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20283-killing-time. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Massacre". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2264&name=Massacre. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
  5. ^ Gleeson, Chris. "Killing Time". Prog Archives. http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=13644. Retrieved 2007-02-05. 
  6. ^ Breiling, Achim. "Massacre". New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock. http://www.gepr.net/mas.html. Retrieved 2007-02-05. 
  7. ^ Killing Time (2005, Fred Records)

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