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Massacre was originally founded in 1980 in New York City by guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher as an improvising and experimental rock band. They performed live for just over a year and recorded a studio album, ''Killing Time'' (1981). Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 1998 with drummer Charles Hayward, and released three more albums, ''Funny Valentine'' (1998), ''Meltdown'' (2001) and ''Lonely Heart'' (2007). The last album was recorded live at two European festivals in 2003.〔 The BBC described Massacre as "an unholy union of The Shadows, Captain Beefheart, Derek Bailey and Funkadelic". ==History== Guitarist Fred Frith, who was a co-founder of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, moved to New York City in 1979 after Henry Cow split up. There he met and began performing with bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher, both of the jazz ensemble Material. In 1980, when Peter Blegvad was looking for an opening band for his Valentine’s day concert at Soundscape in New York, Frith volunteered and invited Laswell and Maher to join him as a power trio they called Massacre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Massacre )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Massacre: Killing Time )〕 The band was well received and soon began performing at venues all over New York City.〔"The Frith Factor: Exploration in Sound", ''Down Beat'' magazine, January 1983.〕 Massacre was a high-energy experimental rock band, manipulating rhythm and timbre freely. They intended to recapture the raw energy of early rock and roll, adding elements of improvisational jazz.〔 Frith told ''Down Beat'' magazine in 1982 (after Massacre had split up): Their live sets consisted of both composed and improvised numbers, often short but always loud.〔 They toured the United States and Europe in 1980 and 1981, and their performances at progressive rock venues in France were well received.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Massacre, ''Killing Time'' )〕 In 1981 Massacre released their only album ''Killing Time'', comprising studio recordings made at Martin Bisi's studio in Brooklyn, New York City in June 1981, and live recordings from their Paris concerts in April 1981. They also featured on part of Frith's 1981 solo album ''Speechless''.〔 Massacre's farewell performances took place at Manhattan's Inroads performance space over the course of a July 4 weekend in 1981 (July 2–4), after which Maher left and the band split up.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Massacre: New York City @ Inroads ) 〕 In 1983 what was left of Massacre joined The Golden Palominos, founded by drummer Anton Fier. The closest thing to another Massacre performance came at a concert, ''Two Against One'', in Boston in February 1985, when The Golden Palominos performed with only three members: Frith, Laswell and Fier on drums. They played as if they were Massacre, including a number of pieces from ''Killing Time'' in their set. This unit also played in Tokyo around the same time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Two Against One no Massacre )〕 Massacre reformed in 1998 when Frith and Laswell asked This Heat's drummer Charles Hayward to join them. The new line-up released ''Funny Valentine'' (1998), culled from studio improvisations, and two live albums, ''Meltdown'' (2001), a largely unedited concert recorded at Robert Wyatt's 2001 Meltdown Festival in London in June 2001, and ''Lonely Heart'' (2007), arranged from live recordings made in 2003, mainly at the Roskilde Festival, "framed" (according to Frith) by an intro and outro taken from a performance in Vitry sur Seine near Paris.〔 All three albums were released on John Zorn's Tzadik label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Massacre (experimental band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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