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Funny Valentine

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Released
  
1998 (1998)

Length
  
61:17

Producer
  
Massacre

Genre
  
Avant-rock

Label
  
Tzadik (United States)

Recorded
  
January 1998, United States

Funny Valentine is the second album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell (bass guitar) and Charles Hayward (drums), with Hayward having replaced Fred Maher, who played drums on their first album, Killing Time (1981).

Contents

Funny Valentine was recorded at Laswell's studio, Orange Music, in West Orange, New Jersey in January 1988.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Massacre.

  1. "Leaf Violence" – 4:43
  2. "Down to Five a Day" – 4:42
  3. "Lizard-skin Junk-mail" – 5:26
  4. "Ladder" – 11:30
  5. "South Orange Sunset" – 4:13
  6. "Six-cylinder Sinister" – 5:21
  7. "300 Days in the Vacant Lot" – 7:34
  8. "Say Hey Willie" – 2:14
  9. "Talk Radio" – 3:48
  10. "Well-dressed Ripping up Wood" – 4:22
  11. "Further Conversations With White Arc" – 6:24

Source: AllMusic, Discogs.

Personnel

  • Fred Frith – guitar
  • Bill Laswell – bass guitars
  • Charles Hayward – drums

    • Sound and artwork

  • Robert Musso – engineer
  • Allan Tucker – mastering
  • Massacre – producer
  • Kazunori Sugiyama – associate executive producer
  • John Zorn – executive producer
  • Ikue Mori – design
  • Adolf Wölfli – artwork

    • Source: Discogs.

    References

    Funny Valentine Wikipedia
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