Fauna (Haken album)

About the origin of the album, singer Ross Jennings said:{{cite web|url=https://hakenmusic.com/ |title=HAKEN - NEW ALBUM 'FAUNA' OUT MARCH 2023 |publisher=Hakenmusic.com |date=2022-12-08 |accessdate=2023-03-04}}

{{cquote|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 robots 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 singer added:{{Cite web|url=https://centurymedia.store/product/Y4CE734COMBO/haken-fauna-2cd-digipack-digital-download?cp=102832_105746|title=Haken - Fauna 2CD Digipack + Digital Download | Shop the Century Media Official Store|accessdate=6 April 2023}}

{{cquote|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.}}

Guitarist Richard Henshall followed:{{cite web | url=https://www.sonicperspectives.com/news/haken-announce-release-of-7th-studio-album-fauna/ | title=HAKEN Announce Release of 7th Studio Album 'Fauna'; Watch Music Video for First Single 'The Alphabet of Me' | date=9 December 2022 }}

{{cquote|It reminds me of 'The Mountain'. 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".

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{{Track listing

| headline = Fauna track listing

| total_length = 62:11

| title1 = Taurus

| length1 = 4:49

| title2 = Nightingale

| length2 = 7:24

| title3 = The Alphabet of Me

| length3 = 5:33

| title4 = Sempiternal Beings

| length4 = 8:23

| title5 = Beneath the White Rainbow

| length5 = 6:45

| title6 = Island in the Clouds

| length6 = 5:45

| title7 = Lovebite

| length7 = 3:49

| title8 = Elephants Never Forget

| length8 = 11:07

| title9 = Eyes of Ebony

| length9 = 8:32

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/26285741-Haken-Fauna-%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A6%E3%83%8A-|title=Haken (2) – Fauna = ファウナ (2023, CD)|publisher=Sony Music Japan|access-date=January 14, 2021}}

| title10 = The Last Lullaby

| length10 = 3:14

| total_length = 65:25

}}

Haken

• Ross Jennings – vocals
• Richard Henshall – guitars
• Charlie Griffiths – guitars
• Peter Jones – keyboards
• Conner Green – bass
• Raymond Hearne – drums

Additional musicians

• Miguel Gorodi – trumpet (on The Alphabet Of Me)

Production and design

• Haken – production
• Paul Winstanley – engineering
• Linus Corneliusson – engineering
• Jens Bogren – mixing
• Tony Lindgren – mastering
• Dan Goldsworthy – artwork
• Max Taylor Grant - photography

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