Another legendary release. Fred's first full-on group after Henry Cow - following soon after his move to America - was a power trio with Bill Laswell (bass) and Fred Maher (drums), both from Giorgio Gomelsky's house band Zu - later to become Material. Massacre was loud and their pieces tended to be short, make their point and end. They used the time-honoured structure of bebop: an intricate head followed by high energy explorations of rhythm and timbre (aka noise). But the authority of playing skills remained very much to the fore - hence, perhaps, the term Punk Jazz which was applied at the time. However, this is unequivocally rock. A fully re-mastered reissue of the original Japanese release, plus the five extra tracks that appeared on the long out of print, Rec Dec CD and two, previously unreleased tracks, including The Shadows-Massacre, FBI.
01 You said 02 Legs 03 Aging with dignity 04 Subway heart 05 Killing time 06 Corridar / lost causes / not the person we knew 07 Know 08 Bones 09 Tourism 10 Surfing 11 As is 12 After
13 Gaten 14 Conversations with white arc 15 Carrying 16 Bait 17 Third street 18 O'clock june 21st get down there and do it f.b.i.