A new beginning for Tonbruket: Some of the tracks are extremely soft and gentle, romantic, acoustic, jazz-inspired, while others use prog rock as a springboard from which to make the short leap into heavy metal. The pieces the band plays can differ hugely from each other in shape, intensity and stylistic origin. The result of this is that the listener's attention tends to be drawn away from the specific and from the moment-to-moment, and towards the totality of what is happening. 

Ivan Myslikovjan - alto saxophone, EWI, Boris Urbánek - keyboards, vocal, Andrej Šeban - guitars, Jenny Krompolc - bassguitar, Michal Hejna - drums, Emil Frátrik - drums, Pavel Plánka - percussion

Adam Tvrdý - electric guitars
Brian Charette - Hammond organ, minimoog
Petr Mikeš - drums

This three CD box brings together music recorded for ECM by Eberhard Weber’s band Colours: the albums “Yellow Fields” (1975), “Silent Feet” (1977) and “Little Movements” (1980). Throughout the six years of its existence, Colours was one of the most popular ensembles on the European jazz touring circuit – although Weber has always stressed the group’s conceptual distance from a jazz mainstream. Many idiomatic elements were combined in Colours’ stylistic mix. The group’s sound-world consciously extended the palette proposed by “The Colours of Chlo?”, Weber’s prize-winning ECM disc of 1974. As the innovative German bassist explains in the liner notes, “there were various aspects to the [Chlo?] session, from the reflective European or chamber music side of the writing, to some jazz-rock and a kind of pictorial play with minimalism. Eventually, all these aspects would be developed in Colours.” 

Eberhard Weber: electric double bass, keyboards
with Jan Garbarek: tenor and soprano saxophones, selje flute
Michael DiPasqua: drums, percussion