Progressive rockers HAKEN
recently announced their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’, the group’s most
genre-busting and conceptually fascinating album to date, will be released on
the 3rd March 2023.
Today, the band are
pleased to release “Taurus” the 3rd single from the album.
You can watch the video,
produced by Crystal Spotlight, here:
Pre-order the album or
stream the track here:
Ross Jennings says this
about the track:
“With such a diverse
and eclectic array of material on ‘Fauna’, it was important for us to include a
piece of music that represented the metallic edge of our sound which was
exploited predominantly on ‘Vector’ & ‘Virus’, with our focus being on hard
hitting riffs in odd time signatures.”
“The song’s lyrics
were written roughly at the same time we all started hearing about the
devastation and crisis happening in Ukraine. I was already writing the piece
based on the annual migration of the wildebeests with strong references to
people travelling in herds and strength in numbers. Suddenly I realised I had
an anchor for what the song could be about and knowing this gives it all the
more emotional weight; We’re all on some sort of journey towards salvation or
enlightenment. Sometimes out of choice or not, we need to leave the past behind
us and make new beginnings. We only have each other, and belief and hope are
our strongest allies.”
Watch the video for the
previously single ‘The Alphabet of Me’ here:
Watch “Nightingale”
here:
The tracklisting is as
follows:
1.
Taurus 04:49
2.
Nightingale 07:24
3.
The Alphabet of Me 05:33
4.
Sempiternal Beings 08:23
5.
Beneath The White Rainbow 06:45
6.
Island In The Clouds 05:45
7.
Lovebite 03:49
8.
Elephants Never Forget 11:07
9.
Eyes Of Ebony 08:32
‘Fauna’ will be
available on several formats, including Ltd 2CD (incl. instrumentals), Standard
CD, Gatefold 2LP & as Digital Album. The albums stunningly detailed artwork
was created by Dan Goldsworthy (Charlie Griffiths, Sylosis)
Pre-order now here: https://haken.lnk.to/Fauna
‘Fauna’ sees the band
exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues. “The premise of the
album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal
assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we
could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has
layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”
“It reminds me of The
Mountain,” adds guitarist and fellow
founder Richard Henshall. “There, we had the idea of not really a
narrative-based album, but more the concept of climbing a mountain and
overcoming the obstacles along the way. Then we took that and thought about how
it could relate to our everyday lives. All of Fauna’s animals relate to us,
personally.”
‘Fauna’ also marks the
return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard permeating the
entire album. “What Pete’s brought sonically to the band has played a
massive role in why we do have a lot of new sounds on this record,” says
Ross. “It’s always a new dynamic when there’s a change in personnel, and
this is a fresh and reviving one. It’s certainly helped proximity-wise, with
Pete being in the country: Pete and Ray [Hearne, Haken’s drummer] would be at
Rich’s place and they’d just start jamming. That’s really key to how the songs
start.”
The band have announced
tour dates for North America and Europe.
Find the full list of
tour dates here: https://hakenmusic.com/tour/
HAKEN are:
Ross Jennings
Richard Henshall
Charlie Griffiths
Pete Jones
Conner Green
Ray Hearne
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