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's Harvest 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.
01 White kite 02 Eos 03 Odds bullets and blades part i 04 Odds bullets and blades part ii 05 Song of the sunbird 06 Puffin 07 Huffin 08 Number three 09 The nodder 10 Surrounding silence 11 Soft space
Disc 2
01 Song of aeolus
02 Karl's riff 03 Drum solo 04 The spraunce 05 The camden tandem 06 The nodder 07 The tale of taliesin 08 Bass solo / one over the eight 09 Soft space part one 10 Soft space part two (disco version)