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The Crystal Sun, Colour Haze
12 Apostles        The Crystal Sun : Landscape (UK,2008)****

Crystal Sun delivered an interesting instrumental album, in sections of rather calm improvised moods with returning instruments of church-organ and mellotron, and sometimes sax or other instruments, with after-echoing oscillating explorations of electric guitar with church organ droning chords, alternated with other passages of electric (fuzz) guitar and bass with programmed drumming, which are more, light dark-rhythmical/rockier (a few times reminding a bit of an instrumental versions of 80s groups like The Sound), with surf-guitar on 7, or with small parts of amplified guitar pickings (6), sometimes with some spoken word (with deformed voice) parts. A fine album which reveals itself into detail only after many listens.

Info & audio : http://www.myspace.com/thecrystalsun
Label info : http://www.12-apostles.com/releases/index.htm
or  http://www.12-apostles.com/releases/media/landscape_press_release.pdf
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Elektroharsch        Colour Haze : All (D,2008)**°

The latest album of Colour Haze is pretty long, and also so long so that it more easily reveals the limitations of the skills and method of playing, which reveals itself before the music can keep the listener long enough in hypnosis not to notice it. Never the less, the album gave me a rather enjoyable listen thanks to the band’s qualities, a convincing listen to a good compiled collection of rather jammed songs, and with a good ending for the CD.

The songs seem to either come forward from a moody jam, or are soft rock songs, (-the singing I think is at its best and moody on “Fall”-), which are accompanied by repetitive patterns of fuzzed or electric guitars which start to brood and build up hypnotically, in a close-your-eyes-with-it, smooth-but-already-heavy-psychrock sort of hypnosis-, and with more often a strong emotionality in speeding its tension slightly, with a convincing and perfect drum/rhythm section to it that besides the haze effects of the guitars, makes it work also within a rhythmical grooviness. Here and there are some touches with sitar.

Homepage : http://www.colourhaze.de/
& with audio : http://www.myspace.com/colourhaze
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