In Her Garden [LP Remastered]

Colour Haze - In Her Garden [LP Remastered]

In part it's a question of scale. The 12th studio album from Munich-based trio Colour Haze titled In Her Garden and featuring an array of tracks named for plant-life including "Black Lilly" "Magnolia" "Arbores" "Lotus" "Lavatera" and so on lands less than three full years after its predecessor 2014s To the Highest Gods We Know - they also had the live album Live Vol. 1 - Europa Tournee 2015 (review here) out in 2016 - but in its sound and scope it might have more in common in terms of presentation with the record before that 2012's She Said. Like that offering In Her Garden is a sprawling 2LP affair - its 72 minutes fit on one CD however which She Said didn't - rife with progressive forward steps on the part of the self-recording three-piece guitarist/vocalist Stefan Koglek bassist Philipp Rasthofer and drummer Manfred Merwald who work with Jan Faszbender on modular synth Rhodes Hammond and on the 63-second interlude "sdg I" and the nine-minute "Labyrinthe" an arrangement of bass-clarinet trombone and tuba. 01. INTO HER GARDEN 02. BLACK LILLY 03. MAGNOLIA 04. ARBORES 05. SDG I 06. LAVATERA 07. ISLANDS DISC #2 01. SDG II 02. LABYRINTHE 03. LOTUS 04. SDG III 05. SKYDANCER 06. SKYDANCE