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.
THE ORIGINAL ALBUM RE-MASTERED
1. WHITE KITE
2. EOS
3. ODDS BULLETS AND BLADES PART I
4. ODDS BULLETS AND BLADES PART II
5. SONG OF THE SUNBIRD
6. PUFFIN
7. HUFFIN
8. NUMBER THREE
9. THE NODDER
10. SURROUNDING SILENCE
11. SOFT SPACE
DISC 2
BONUS TRACKS
1. SONG OF AEOLUS
2. KARL’S RIFF
3. DRUM SOLO
4. THE SPRAUNCE
5. THE CAMDEN TANDEM
6. THE NODDER
7. THE TALE OF TALIESIN
8. BASS SOLO / ONE OVER THE EIGHT
TRACKS 1 – 8 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS, PARIS JULY 1978
9. SOFT SPACE PART ONE
10. SOFT SPACE PART TWO (DISCO VERSION)
A & B SIDES OF SINGLE 1978
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD