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Massacre.(Killing Time)(Sound recording review)
Massacre. Killing Time. ReR/Fred Records ReR/FR010, 2005.
When a band called Massacre releases an album called Killing Time, one might be forgiven for thinking that he knows what to expect: either an unrelieved hour of horrific, ear-splitting noise, or maybe a suite of sulphurous death metal. But when this album was first issued in its original (and much shorter) form in 1981, the most surprising thing about it was its relative approachability. The word "relative," however, is key. Guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell, and drummer Fred Maher were all stars of what was then a thriving avant-garde art and music scene in downtown New York, and all were graduates of the ear-splitting noise school. Frith had made a name for himself in the 1970s as a member of British bands the Art Bears and Henry Cow, and more recently by performing concerts during which he would lay his guitars flat on the table and drop things on them to produce various kinds of otherworldly racket. Laswell had dabbled in noise as well, but was also involved with the funk crowd and the nascent hip-hop scene. Fred Maher, with Laswell, was half of a ...
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