ALIVE & WELL - RECORDED IN PARIS

Add another halfstar really!! The main news here are that there are no more reeds but also a violinist has joined them and they keep on rolling from the new impetus created by Bundles. Clearly all three Harvest releases by the Machine are excellent but at this one , you can slightly feel the wearyness , but this is probably nit-picking on my part. Around the time of release , there had been a lot of rumours about the band breaking up. So they called this one Alive and well but this was also to be the last album for a few years to come. On the whole , one can expect the same kind of fusion heard in the previous two but with the noted change of instrument noted at the top of my review.

If you had been patient enough to stick this far with Soft Machine , please stop at this one since they should have done just that . The next one (Cockayne) can only deceive you . What is to say about this album? Well that this is no must hear but is still very worthy of S M but is only for the maniacs. The music in here is a far cry from Third or Four.

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