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  Following the breakup of Cambridge's avant-rock legends, Henry Cow, guitarist Fred Frith moved to NYC in 1979, and soon found himself deep in the heart of the city's robust post-punk and free-jazz scenes. He performed with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher, from the group Material, as a power trio of sorts under the moniker of Massacre.
  The group quickly garnered a reputation around town, and around the world for that matter, as a heavy and heady band that experimented greatly with rhythm, time signatures, and tone.
  As Frith himself put it, "the group was a direct response to New York. It was a very aggressive group, kind of my reaction to the whole New York rock club scene." Massacre released one album, Killing Time, before disbanding for nearly 20 years.
  Their first wave as a group crashed fast and furiously and this one album, recorded in part live in Paris, and in part at Brooklyn's OAO Studio, is a perfect encapsulation of early '80s NYC.
  In addition to the original album, first released on Celluloid in 1981, this deluxe three-sided double LP includes eight bonus tracks recorded live between '80 and '81 at The Stone in San Francisco, and Inroads and CBGB in NYC. Avant-jazz-post-punk-noise of the highest order from several legends and one of the most important projects Frith and Laswell were ever involved in.
  
  Tracklist:
  
  A1 Legs
  A2 Aging With Dignity
  A3 Subway Heart
  A4 Killing Time
  A5 Corridor
  A6 Lost Causes
  A7 Not The Person We Knew
  B1 Bones
  B2 Tourism
  B3 Surfing
  B4 As Is
  B5 After
  B6 Gate
  C1 You Said
  C2 Know
  C3 Conversations With White Arc
  C4 Carrying
  C5 Bait
  C6 Third Street
  C7 3 O'Clock, June 21st, Get Down There And Do It
  C8 F.B.I.
  
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