Released on 29/11/10.
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the long overdue release of an expanded 2CD remastered edition of the classic 1978 live album Alive & Well Recorded In Paris by the celebrated Jazz and Rock group Soft Machine. The album was the band ‘s third for EMI sHarvest label and featured a line-up of KARL Jenkins (Piano, Electric Keyboards, Synthesiser), John Marshall (Drums), John Etheridge (Acoustic and Electric Guitars) and new members Steve Cook (Bass Guitar) and Ric Sanders (Violin).
The final live recordings to be released by the band during their lifetime, Alive & Well was the product of several nights of excellent concerts at Le Palace Theatre in Monmartre, Paris in July 1978. The album was initially released as a single album, although the discovery of multi-track masters of a concert in the archives has resulted in this expanded edition with a CD of additional material recorded in July 1978.
Unavailable officially on CD for nearly fifteen years, this Esoteric Recordings reissue has been re-mastered from the original master tapes and fully restores the original artwork.
White Kite / Eos / Odds Bullets And Blades Part I / Odds Bullets And Blades Part Ii / Song Of The Sunbird / Puffin / Huffin / Number Three / The Nodder / Surrounding Silence / Soft Space
Bonus Tracks - K’s Riff / The Nodder / Two Down / The Spraunce / Song of Aeolus / Sideburn / The Tale of Taliesin / Organic Matter / One Over the Eight
Previously Unreleased Live Recordings, Paris July 1978 / Soft Space Part One / Soft Space Part Two (Disco Version) A & B Sides Of Single 1978 Previously Unreleased On CD