Colour Haze- Live at Berg Herzburg Festival 2008
(Herzberg verlag)
From Aural Innovations May 2009 update
It has been a one and a half years or so that Colour Haze have been saying
a live album would be released. They had several multitrack recordings from
Roadburn, Duna jam and a few other shows to choose from but I guess this was
a very satisfying show and they decided to mix this one in Hannover where they
have recorded their last several albums. Colour Haze are one of the best German
bands around with their own sound. This is solid performance and features the
set the band has more or less stuck to the last few years. A few tracks from
the early catalog are played like Get it On, Outside, Inside with American Woman
and ending the show with Out of the Sun by Grand Funk! The majority of the material
is from the last two great records. Excellent sound and mix and playing but
the versions are almost the exact same as the studio versions, so I won’t
listen to this much. If you are a fan, you will be satisfied with this. Finally,
I really hope that this will mark the end to this set of songs as the band has
an amazing catalog and no longer represents an exciting band for me to see live,
as I have seen them so many times and until they decide to improvise more or
play different songs, I won't get excited about them, until the new studio album
comes out!
Check out the Colour Haze web site at: http://www.colourhaze.de
Check out the record label and festival site at: http://www.herzbergverlag.de/index.html
Reviewed by Scott Heller