Colour Haze Launch Preorders for All Reissue; Live Dates Confirmed
The last time I actively engaged with Colour Haze‘s 2008 ninth full-length, All (discussed here), was in 2018, which was the year it turned 10. That was a hell of a week, apparently. I wasn’t sleeping, my dog was dying, The Patient Mrs. was starting a new semester. Maybe I was looking for a bit of comfort, and in that regard, All was probably the right choice.
By 2008, the Munich-based then-trio were already a pivotal presence in the European heavy underground, and All encapsulates a lot of what has been their influence over it in heavy psychedelic song- and jamcraft. Issued through Elektrohasch Schallplatten, of course, it was a sort of third in a (holy) trinity of releases alongside 2004’s suitably declarative Colour Haze (discussed here) and 2006’s mellow masterpiece, Tempel (discussed here). The self-titled had picked up some of the soothing vibe of 2002’s 2LP Los Sounds de Krauts (reissue review here) and expanded greatly on it with attention to detail in tone and melody that pulled away from the harder-shoving rock aspects of some of their prior albums and began a next stage for the band that would continue to flesh out in Tempel and All before 2012’s als0-landmark She Said (review here) began to dive deeper into elements of classic prog, shaping at least in part the work they’ve done since — though I’ll posit 2017’s In Her Garden (review here) as the beginning of another era with the increased focus on keys/synth and their interplay with guitar; golly it would be fun to list this all out sometime.
But whether engaged as a standalone work or the chapter that it is in the narrative of Colour Haze‘s ongoing progression, All was a special moment, fully confident of its execution, situated to be taken as an encompassing entirety, and willing to be beautiful in a way that rock music often is not. It is the kind of record that turns a house into a home.
Along with a new master of the band’s late-2022 album, Sacred (review here), a new double-vinyl for a remastered All is up for preorder now from Elektrohasch, and there’s a CD version too for those of us with storage space issues. Any format you get it on, I don’t think you’re gonna regret it, and that includes hi-res digital. No wrong answer.
Colour Haze also have festival dates and more besides coming up, and one very much looks forward to their appearance later this year at Desertfest New York, which will bring them to the US for just the second time.
Info follows:
Colour Haze – All – DLP
The remastered LP will be delivered in March and can be preordered. The download-files are already from the new masters as well. There is also a Hi-Res version now. Also on CD (remastered) All will be available again soon.
Preorder: https://www.elektrohasch.de/en/shops-en/shop-en/colour-haze-all-2
We are on tour again! Please come to the shows!
01.04. (DE) Münster | Sputnikhalle, Alterna Sounds Festival
13.04. (AT) Linz | Stadtwerkstatt
14.04. (HR) Zagreb | Mochvara
15.04. (AT) Wien | Arena
14.07. (DE) Erfurt | Stoned From The Underground
15.07. (AT) Stockenboi | Woodstockenboi
18.08. (FR) Volcano Sessions
14.09. (US) New York City | St. Vitus Bar, Desertfest Preparty
15.09. (US) New York City | Knockdown Center, Desertfest
06.10. (DE) München | Backstage, Keep It Low Festival
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