Nach wochenlangen Vorankündigungen freuen sich die Progressive Rocker HAKEN, ihr siebtes Studioalbum „Fauna“ anzukündigen, ihr bisher genresprengendstes und konzeptionell faszinierendstes Album. Das Album wird am 3. März 2023 erscheinen. Nach der Veröffentlichung von „Nightingale“ Anfang des Jahres freuen sie sich, mit „The Alphabet of Me“ den zweiten Track aus dem Album zu präsentieren.
Nach wochenlangen Vorankündigungen freuen sich die Progressive Rocker HAKEN, ihr siebtes Studioalbum „Fauna“ anzukündigen, ihr bisher genresprengendstes und konzeptionell faszinierendstes Album. Das Album wird am 3. März 2023 erscheinen. Nach der Veröffentlichung von „Nightingale“ Anfang des Jahres freuen sie sich, mit „The Alphabet of Me“ den zweiten Track aus dem Album zu präsentieren.
Sehen Sie sich hier das Video zu „The Alphabet of Me“ an, bei dem Crystal Spotlight Regie geführt hat:
Vocalist Ross Jennings comments: “When composing and presenting initial song sketches, we very much had an “anything goes” mentality, and whilst sounding atypically Haken, it was a piece that was all exciting us to explore and integrate into our song canon.
Where the lyrics are concerned, I leant heavily on one of my favourite writers Philip K Dick, for inspiration. Keeping our loose concept of spirit animals in mind, I re-read ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep?’ (Which would later be adapted into the 1982 film ’Blade Runner’) knowing symbolically that animals played a key role in the story. This, along with revisiting both movies from the Blade Runner franchise, opened up some deeper philosophical topics about the nature of identity which have served as a backbone for the lyrical content
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.
Richard Henshall ergänzt: “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.”
Tracklist Fauna:
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
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