Colour Haze to Record 2LP in May; Tour Starts Tonight
Colour Haze tonight begin their Obelisk-copresented tour alongside My Sleeping Karma, delivering warmth, sonic-care and — I’ll just say it — hope to chaotic times. The Munich-based forebears of heavy psychedelia have a 2LP’s worth of new material structured as four extended pieces — I’m curious if they’re instrumental or with vocals, as guitarist/vocalist Stefan Koglek says below they don’t follow verse/chorus structure — and after working them out on the road for this run, which will take them into May, they’ll hit Clouds Hill Studio in Hamburg to track the actual record for release reportedly in Fall as the follow-up to 2023’s Sacred (review here), and not a moment too soon.
If you’re going somewhere on this tour, get video and send it to me, please. Colour Haze aren’t strangers to longform composition, but their arrangements have grown broader in the last decade-plus, and I’m curious how keys, maybe strings, percussion and other ‘kaleidoscopic’ elements might be put to use.
From the band’s newsletter, via the PR wire:
Dear friends,
we are on tour soon – come to the shows!
Besides our many shows we worked on new music the recent years and now we want to show it live first at the Karma Haze Tour before we’ll enter the Clouds Hill Studio in Hamburg in May to record the basic tracks of our new album. And as time for rehearsals is always too short we are glad My Sleeping Karma agreed we play first (and a bit shorter than we usualy use to).
It’s only four new songs. But each in LP-side-length. None of the new pieces has any usual song-structure but is a long narrative journey in a linear structure without repeating parts the same way at all. We worked very intensively on composition and arrangement as the music should flow naturally, even if some parts are arranged in a sort of kaleidoscopic manner on purpose. We hope you will enjoy travelling with us through these songs, even at first listen at our shows – and even if we maybe won’t achieve a perfect performance on instant. We will maybe also play the one or other classic as well : )
The doublealbum is scheduled to be released in autumn.
We are looking forward to see you! Best Wishes
Stefan Koglek
Tourdates (more to be announced):
03.04.26 ATHINA // GR – Arch Club – Live Stage
04.04.26 SOFIA // BG – Club Pave
05.04.26 THESSALONIKI // GR – Soul
17.04.26 KARLSRUHE // DE – Substage
18.04.26 WIEN // AT – Arena
19.04.26 KRAKÓW // PL – Hype Park
20.04.26 WARSZAWA // PL – Hydrozagadka
21.04.26 LEIPZIG // DE – WERK 2
22.04.26 NIJMEGEN // NL – Merleyn
23.04.26 KÖLN // DE – Die Kantine
24.04.26 HAMBURG // DE – Markthalle
25.04.26 BERLIN // DE – Festsaal Kreuzberg
26.04.26 BIELEFELD // DE – Forum Bielefeld
27.04.26 SINT-NIKLAAS // BE – De Casino
28.04.26 PARIS // FR – La Machine du Moulin Rouge
29.04.26 TÜBINGEN // DE – Sudhaus
30.04.26 AARAU // CH – KIFF
01.05.26 SEGRATE (MI) // IT – Circolo Magnolia
02.05.26 MÜNCHEN // DE – Backstage Club
12.09.26 FREIBURG IM BREISGAU // DE – Jazzhaus
02.10.26 ALMERIA, TABERNAS // ES – Tabernas Desert Rock Fest
12.11.26 OSNABRÜCK // DE – Botschaft
13.11.26 HUSUM // DE – Speicher Husum
14.11.26 BREMEN // DE – Tower
11.12.26 NUERNBERG // DE – Z-Bau
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My wife and I went to the Karma Haze show in Cologne yesterday.
Colour Haze played 3 of their new songs and I think Stefan described them perfectly in the newsletter. The songs had an almost cinematic quality to them in the way they unfolded. And they were really heavy in parts, reminding me of 1.5 Degress from Sacred. Really looking forward to the album.
No new songs from My Sleeping Karma. But boy, did they put on a powerhouse performance! This was the 4th time I’ve seen them live and they’ve gotten progressively better every time.
All in all, this was a great evening with 2 of my favorite bands.