Colours (Eloy album)

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Colours
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Studio album by
Eloy
ReleasedJune 1980 [1] [2]
RecordedSpring 1980 [3]
StudioHorus Sound Studio, Hannover, Germany
Genre Space rock, prog rock [4]
Length39:33
Label Harvest / EMI Electrola
Producer Eloy
Eloy chronology
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
(1979)		Colours
(1980)		 Planets
(1981)
Singles from Colours
  1. "Silhouette (single edit) / Horizons"
    Released: 1980 [5]
No.TitleLyricsLength
1."Horizons" 3:20
2."Illuminations" 6:19
3."Giant"Sonja Brown6:05
4."Impressions"Sonja Brown3:06
5."Child Migration" 7:23
6."Gallery" 3:08
7."Silhouette" 6:57
8."Sunset" 3:15
Total length:39:33
2005 Remastered CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
9."Wings of Vision" (1980 A-Side single)4:14
10."Silhouette (single edit)" (1980 A-Side single)3:30

Personnel

All information according to the album's liner notes. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Colours (Remastered 2005) - Eloy". Amazon Music . Amazon . Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  2. ↑ "Colours (Remastered 2005) - Eloy". Apple Music . Apple Inc. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "Eloy History: New Paths and Old Values - 1980 to 1984". Eloy official website. Retrieved 4 June 2024. ...the new »Colours« album was recorded there in Spring 1980
  4. 1 2 "Eloy – Colours". Discogs . Zink Media, LLC. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Eloy – Silhouette / Horizons". Discogs . Zink Media, LLC. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Horyszny, Paweł. "Eloy — Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes". ArtRock.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  7. ↑ Scaruffi, Piero. "Eloy". scaruffi.com. Piero Scaruffi . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Eloy - Silhouette music video" (video). YouTube . Google . Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Eloy - Illuminations music video" (video). YouTube . Google . Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kuinke, Volker. Eloy - Colours (booklet) (in German). Harvest Records - EMI Electrola. pp. 3–7.
  11. ↑ "Eloy - Ocean". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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