Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris

Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
Live album by Soft Machine
Released 1978
Recorded July 6–9 1977 at Théâtre Le Palace, Paris, France
Genre Jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length 39:06
Label Harvest
Producer Soft Machine
Soft Machine chronology
Softs
(1976)		 Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
(1978)		 Land of Cockayne
(1981)
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Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris is a 1978 release by the band Soft Machine. Mostly recorded live, during at 4-night residency at Paris' Théâtre Le Palace in July 1977, much of the album was later modified in the studio, with the track "Soft Space" being a completely studio recorded track released the previous year as a single ("Soft Space" parts 1 and 2).

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed by Karl Jenkins except where indicated.

Side one

  1. "White Kite" – 3:00
  2. "Eos" – 1:22
  3. "Odds Bullets and Blades Pt. I" – 2:18
  4. "Odds Bullets and Blades Pt. II" – 2:33
  5. "Song of the Sunbird" – 1:24
  6. "Puffin" – 1:18
  7. "Huffin" – 5:12

Side two

  1. "Number Three" (John Etheridge) – 2:25
  2. "The Nodder" – 7:13
  3. "Surrounding Silence" (Ric Sanders) – 4:04
  4. "Soft Space" – 8:17

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References

  1. ^ "Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris - Soft Machine | AllMusic". allmusic.com. 2011 [last update]. http://www.allmusic.com/album/alive--well-recorded-in-paris-r76680. Retrieved 2 July 2011. 
Soft Machine
Studio albums
The Soft Machine (1968) • Volume Two (1969) • Third (1970) • Fourth (1971) • Fifth (1972) • Six (1973) • Seven (1973) • Bundles (1975) • Softs (1976) • Land of Cockayne (1981)
Singles
"Love Makes Sweet Music" (1967) • "Joy of a Toy" (1968) • "Soft Space" (1977)
Live albums
Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) • Live at the Proms 1970 (1988) • BBC Radio 1967-1971 (2003) • BBC Radio 1971-1974 (2003) • Soft Machine and Heavy Friends (2005) • Softstage (2005)
Cuneiform albums
Spaced (1996) • Virtually (1998) • Noisette (2000) • Backwards (2002) • Live in Paris (2004) • Grides (2006) • Middle Earth Masters (2006) • NDR Jazz Workshop (2010)
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