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"Skydancer" & In Her Garden!

COLOUR HAZE LEAKS!

Friends & followers: some of you might have found the new COLOUR HAZE track already in the world wide web & YES (!) it's our fault! It could be possible that we simply forgot to push the "private" button. Ha! But hey, nobody is perfect! ;)

So now, officially from us to you: Enjoy the brandnew COLOUR HAZE song "Skydancer"

MSK - Colour Haze Tour 2017

We are on tour with our friends My Sleeping Karma in March 2017.

Uis Vol. 5 - Update // Stonerrock.eu Trailer

2011 seems like yesterday when we decided to pack up 3 to 4 awesome bands in a bus to tour Europe and rock your ears! 4 editions have gone by, 2 packed indoor festivals have witnessed your love for the music and the concept, so ladies and gentelmen, get ready!

Psychedelic Roadfestival 2015! Up in Smoke Vol. 5

Stoned from the Underground 2014

Text vom STFU: Wir hoffen ihr hattet alle einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! Damit 2014 noch besser anfängt, gibts jetzt gleich noch eine ordentliche Ansage. Wir sind froh euch auf dem Stoned From The Underground 2014 COLOUR HAZE präsentieren zu dürfen. Nach mehr als einem halben Jahrzehnt (das hört sich länger an) wird es auch mal wieder Zeit die Münchner-Kraut-Rock-Institution dabei zu haben.

Colour Haze & My Sleeping Karma

Una de las bandas más destacadas del panorama actual dentro del stoner rock progresivo por primera vez en Madrid y Barcelona presentando su décimo primer disco "She Said" (2012 Elektrohasch Records), ocho nuevas composiciones donde el stoner rock de corte progresivo vuelve a ser el protagonista. Se formaron en 1994 en la ciudad alemana de Munich y actualmente el combo lo componen Stefan Koglek (voz, guitarra), Philipp Rasthofer (bajo) y Manfred Merwald (batería).
 
La experiencia Colour Haze en directo es algo indescriptible. Han girado y actuado en pequeños y grandes festivales de Europa y Estados Unidos. En España solo han actuado en una ocasión, fue en la segunda edición del Festival de Psicodelia Castell de Guadalest (Alicante) en 2009, por lo que la expectación por ver a este icono del stoner-psicodélico es máxima!

Up in Smoke - Indoor Festival 2013

SOUND OF LIBERATION und Z7 KONZERTFABRIK PRATTELN präsentieren stolz das allererste UP IN SMOKE Indoor Festival am 5. Oktober 2013! 2011 geboren, heisst das anfängliche Konzept UP IN SMOKE Roadfestival und ist ein Tribut an die Wolken blauen Rauchs, die um die Dances und Trances von Musikliebhabern herumschweben...

16 Years of Orange Factory

Colour Haze is a heavy psychedelic stonerrock group from Munich, Germany, consisting of singer and guitarist Stefan Koglek, drummer Manfred Merwald and bassist Philipp Rasthofer. Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits

Headliner Desertfest Berlin

With last years's long-awaited 'She Said' LP released on Stefan Koglek's own Elektrohasch label, plus it's introduction of adventurous new instrumentation, the band stretched their sonic arsenal further than ever before and honed it to perfection with an extensive european tour of 3-hour sets.

"SHE SAID" REVIEW (eng) by FAST'N'BULBOUS

New Album of the Week: Colour Haze – She Said (Elektrohasch) Posted on September 11, 2012 by A.S. Van Dorston
Over four years since All (2008) and two years since recording started, it’s hard to believe that She Said, the new album by stoner/heavy psych masters Colour Haze is here! It’s been a long, gnarly road for the band to get to its completion. Original plans was for a February 2011 release, until a January press release revealed that there were defects in the recordings and they would have to re-record most of the album. When I wrote the Colour Haze: Kings of Stoner/Psych Rock Mountain piece in March, I had high hopes the album would be out by summer! A September 2011 release date came and went, and Stefan Koglek’s update discussed issues with the mixing board, part of their newly built home studio. Sweet anticipation starts to become something else.At that point, us hardcore Colour Haze fans just had to take a breath and realize it’ll come when it comes. Meanwhile, as lot has happened in the heavy psych/stoner scene since 2008. After nine increasingly brilliant studio albums, the band’s influence became truly entrenched. While no one could really duplicate Colour Haze’s tones, you could hear their influence in Sungrazer, Causa Sui, The Machine, My Sleeping Karma, Hypnos 69, Arenna, and many more. They are all great bands that I listen to often, but Colour Haze remains by far my favorite because their music is so incredibly rich, despite normally sticking to a simple mix of guitar, bass, drums and occasional vocals. Every listening session feels like a journey, evoking geography such as deserts, mountains, oceans, whether imaginary or from experience and memory with all its inherent emotional triggers. Unlike some bullshit psychedelia that would sound empty without the enhancement of substances, Colour Haze’s music can plant the imagery in your brain using nothing but sound. To me, that’s truly psychedelic. And at their best, the songs have as much emotional impact as the melancholy music of Australian band The Dirty Three when they were at their peak in the mid-90s.

Some would say Colour Haze peaked with Los Sounds de Krauts (2003), a game-changing double album. She Said is also a double album, and makes a strong case that the band is still on top of their game, or are even better than ever. The beauty of most of their albums reflect some sort of evolution, even if it isn’t drastic, and offers a unique flavor each time. There will always people who are fans of particular albums (my favorite was All, and it will take more time to determine if She Said replaces that). I can’t imagine a fan not liking this album unless they haven’t liked anything by the band since 1999. While All dabbled with some subtle psychedelic production and even pop structures, the new one kicks off with the sprawling title track featuring piano playing by Christian Hawellek. Keyboards aren’t a completely new thing for Colour Haze, as Hawellek has contributed at least some Fender rhodes on all the albums since the self-titled Colour Haze (2005). However the string and horn arrangements are new. This is not to say that they’ve gone orchestral pop. Those elements, which also include some congas on the first track, are used sparingly but effectively, enhancing key moments on just a few tracks, like the horns making the crescendo on “Transformation” all that much more magnificent. At 18:48 and 16:53, “She Said” and “Transformation” are the band’s third and sixth longest songs in their entire catalog. You may have favorite songs where you wish the guitars would keep going a lot longer, like Television’s “Marquee Moon.” I used to be a pretty vocal opponent to jamming, but I’ll be damned if I’ve ever been bored by any of Stefan Koglek’s guitar solos.

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NEW TRACK from the upcoming LP!

Finally in our media section you'll find a NEW TRACK from the upcoming LP! Also you'll find in our Player on the right-hand side. Have a good flight, kiss the soil while you landing. & enjoy!

Dear Friends

it took a long time and was a hard way but finally we made it: the recording, mixing and mastering of the new Colour Haze album is finished and in the end all turned out quite good I`d say

COLOUR HAZE CONFIRMED FOR HELLFEST 2012!

It’s quite easy to think of Kyuss while listening to COLOUR HAZE’s modern psychedelic stoner. Nevertheless, the three-piece hailing from Munich has its own and very efficient writing style reinforced by long instrumental pieces and jazzy and experimental structures that provide an addictive groove. Hippy and 70s influenced, psychedelic: this is how to describe the sound of these Germans who managed to impose themselves as one of the most talented combo of the underground scene.

ANNOUNCED FOR FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL

Festival host is the Freak Valley Festival club which is a union of music lovers from the greater Siegen area (GER). When people complained that there is nothing going on in Siegen, we decided that it is about to change that. After our successful concerts (www.rockfreaks.de) we wanted to fly at higher game - that's the reason for Freak Valley Festival.

Veranstalter des Festivals ist der Freak Valley Festival e.V., ein Zusammenschluss von Musikfreunden aus Siegen und Umgebung. Wir haben uns irgendwann mal gesagt, dass in Siegen zu wenig los ist und haben was dran geändert. Nach dem Erfolg unserer Konzerte unter dem Label Rock Freaks wollten wir noch ein Stück höher hinaus - daher nun ein Festival. All infos here: http://rockfreaks.de/festival