| Cassette Recordings '87 | ||||
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| Released | March 1987 | |||
| Recorded | North Sea Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark Den Haag, Allentown, PA | |||
| Genre | Free jazz | |||
| Length | 39:20 | |||
| Label | Enemy | |||
| Producer | Robert Musso | |||
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Cassette Recordings '87, also issued with the title From the Board, is the third live album by the free jazz group Last Exit. It was released in March 1987 by Enemy Records. [1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Allmusic | [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
In a review for AllMusic, John Dougan wrote: "Still live, still pumping big-time improvised noise wail... This is mighty powerful stuff, and those a tad squeamish when it comes to full-bore noisemaking and improvised energy should explore this record only with proper supervision. There's no telling what will happen if you're left alone with these guys for any length of time." [2]
Steve Huey, in a second AllMusic review, stated: "more fine work from free jazz's answer to heavy metal... if you like their sound, most of what's out there is pretty high-quality, and From the Board is no exception." [3]
All music is composed by Peter Brötzmann, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Line of Fire" | 20:27 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Big Boss Man" | 1:03 |
| 2. | "Sore Titties" | 6:17 |
| 3. | "Ulli Bulli Fooli" | 3:57 |
| 4. | "Ma Rainey" | 5:09 |
| 5. | "My Balls/Your Chin" | 2:27 |
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1987 | Enemy | LP | EMY 105 |
| Japan | 1988 | Enemy | CD | 32JC-299 |
| Japan | 1988 | Enemy | LP | 28JAL-3156 |
| United States | 1988 | Celluloid | CD, LP | CEL 6140 |
| United States | 1995 | Enemy | CD | EMY 105-2 |
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