Music

Funny Valentine 1998

rock, free improvisation 60 min 11 tracks Tzadik

Funny Valentine is the second studio album by avant-rock, experimental trio Massacre, recorded 17 years after the first. For this album guitarist Fred Frith and bass guitarist Bill Laswell were joined by English drummer Charles Hayward, who replaced original drummer Fred Maher.

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Spare, character-led, contemporary and open-ended.

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character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks

1Leaf Violence4:44
2Down to Five a Day4:42
3Lizard-Skin Junk-Mail5:27
4Ladder11:31
5South Orange Sunset4:13
6Six-Cylinder Sinister5:22
7300 Days in the Vacant Lot7:34
8Say Hey Willie2:14
9Talk Radio3:49
10Well-Dressed Ripping Up Wood4:23
11Further Conversations With White Arc6:25

11 tracks, 60 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Massacre
Label: Tzadik
Released: October 20, 1998
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: US

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