To make up for some lost time in the last few years, Haken have taken a very aggressive approach toward the year 2023. The band recently started an extensive North American tour in Nashville in support of their latest album Fauna, which was released just in March via Inside Out Music. Their seventh studio record, the follow-up to 2020’s Virus, has been extremely well received by fans and critics, as it marks the return of the band’s outstanding keyboard player Peter Jones. The presence and influence of Jones is very apparent throughout the record, and having that dynamic back within the band has really helped revive a certain element of their sound that perhaps wasn’t as apparent on Virus. Fauna is an expansive record, an exploration of new concepts and ideas. The premise of the album is c...