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 Chloё”, Weber’s prize-winning ECM disc of 1974. As the innovative German bassist explains in the liner notes, “there were various aspects to the [Chloё] 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.”

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Touch
2. Sand-Glass
3. Yellow Fields
4. Left Lane

CD 2
1. Seriously Deep
2. Silent Feet
3. Eyes That Can See in the Dark

CD 3
1. The Last Stage of a Long Journey
2. Bali (Rainer Brüninghaus)
3. A Dark Spell
4. Little Movements
5. 'No Trees?' He Said