Colour Haze Update on Reissues, New Live Album & More
Big update from Munich heavy psychedelic forebears Colour Haze, marked by the upcoming release of a new live album recorded by the band as a four-piece in the studio show-style. with no overdubs or whathaveyou. Elektrohasch Schallplatten, the imprint run by founding Colour Haze guitarist/vocalist Stefan Koglek, has been quiet in terms of issuing the work of other groups, but has steadily served as an outlet for the band’s own work in the last few years, and as they move beyond 2020’s We Are (review here), it seems like they’re trying to give that album the due it might otherwise have received on tour.
Fair enough. If you’ve read this site for more than five or six seconds ever, you probably know I’ll take new Colour Haze as it comes. I’m not saying I bought a bootleg of the audio from the livestream below just to own it, but maybe that happened and I’ll still be happy to add Live Vol. 3 – 2020 to the catalog. Note the lack of CDs being pressed. Vinyl has long been the priority for Colour Haze, so it makes sense given delays and funding and the ubiquitous nature of digitalia anyway. I get it. I still also like those little plastic discs.
If you’re not signed up for the band’s newsletter, Koglek sent this along with all the latest whathaveyou:
Dear friends,
All shows until spring are cancelled or postponed – but we‘ll be back : )
Already confirmed live date: Friday, 20. May 2022 @ Scala Kultur, Ludwigsburg (GER)
So many difficulties the past two years…. But things got sorted and sometimes even improved. Some of you could already see on last years shows Mario is doing really good on bass.
We finally found a new home for rehearsing. Thanks to Lee Harvey & The Oswalds! And thanks as well to Godsground who helped us out in between! We recorded new songs for a new album last October and will carry on with a second live-recording session in April.
With Steffen Wünscher I found a new competent and reliable webmaster. For technical reasons we had to install a new website pretty short-term in December. Which we improved now : )
Not to forget I had to change the pressing factory for vinyl. As it turns out now the former manufacturer didn‘t take good care of my tools so new ones have to be made for most records. But I want to make an opportunity of this let down, making use of the studio-possibilities I have today to improve the sound quality of old masters.
And with this we get to the new…
…Releases
Elektrohasch 001-2 Colour Haze – Los Sounds De Krauts DLP
The LPs are scheduled to leave the factory on February 2nd. I will immediately start with shipping. The limited edition is sold out by preorders from my side but I‘m sure you can purchase it at the one or other retailer still.
Elektrohasch 062 – Colour Haze – Live Vol. 3 – 2020 LP / Download 
The lockdown year and no rehearsal room. But we wanted to play – of course! So we moved into the Panorama Studio, Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm for a while. Well – and we couldn‘t leave the possibilities of a studio aside. So Stephan Ebertshauser recorded on two evenings the set of the cancelled „We Are“-Tour – live and without overdubs. The best of these recordings – a great new arrangement of „Moon“, „Überall“ in the powerful new version with Jan and „Freude III“ are on the A-side of this LP. On the B-side is the great „Transformation“-version of the Freak Valley Festival streaming concert which didn‘t come quite off in the original stream – digital restaurated and now mixed properly. The last record with Philipp Rasthofer…
The LP will be delivered in April. There is also a handnumbered limited 500 copies edition on red vinyl. I won‘t release a CD for now.
Elektrohasch 003-3 Colour Haze – s/t remaster LP / Download
As first remaster “Colour Haze” will be delivered from the factory in May. It took many hours to transfer the music from the unfortunately damaged original tapes. With care and attention I remastered them all analogue and I think it turned out quite well : )
The plain Download-Version comes in the package of „Colour Haze“ and „2004 Extended Play“ for the single price.
Elektrohasch 004 Colour Haze – 2004 Extended Play LP / Download
Foremost because of limited playing time „Mountain“ and „Flowers“ so far only have been an „extra“ on the „Colour Haze“ CD. On vinyl these songs have only been released on the long sold out split 7“ with Gas Giant and the split 10“ with Hypnos 69.Along with „Amo Te“, so far only released on mentioned 10“ and „Raumschiffkommandant“ – a track made for „The Psychedelic Avengers“ – soundtrack of an imaginarySci-Fi-B-Movie – all these recordings from 2004 are now remastered on this new EP (which has about 35 minutes playing time)The delivery of the LP is scheduled by the factory for June. There is also a handnumbered limited 500 copies edition on colored vinyl. I won‘t release a CD for now.
The plain Download-Version comes in the package of „Colour Haze“ and „2004 Extended Play“for the single price .
Elektrohasch 005-2 Colour Haze – Tempel – remaster LP
The delivery is scheduled for July by the pressing factory.
All The Best
Stefan Koglek
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