HAKEN Announce Liveforms: An Evening With Haken, Recorded Live In London; “Beneath The White Rainbow” Video Posted
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Progressive pioneers, Haken, spent 2024 celebrating their most recent studio album, Fauna, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their ‘An Evening With’ run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed Fauna in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from their catalogue. In a homecoming of sorts for Haken, on September 21, 2024 the band played London’s legendary O2 Forum, and the document of that special evening is what’s witnessed on Liveforms: An Evening With Haken – due for release on May 9.
To coincide with this announcement, the band have launched a video clip of their performance of “Beneath The White Rainbow”, which you can watch here.
The band comments of the release: “The Evening With Haken tour across North America and Europe was without a doubt one of our favourite tours we’ve done, showcasing 3 hours of music from our entire discography, including our latest record Fauna performed in full which was an absolute blast! Conducting an ‘evening with’ format is something that we’ve seen tried and tested by some of our favourite artists, and it felt like an important band bucket list item to tick off at this stage in our career, to celebrate all we’ve achieved in the last 15 years. When discussions arose as to which show we might document on film, it was a no-brainer for us that our homecoming show in London, at the legendary 02 Kentish Town Forum, should be the one. And the home crowd did not disappoint, on what turned out to be such an electric atmosphere, we just so happened to capture one of our best performances from the entire tour for our fans to relive again and again.”
Filmed by Paul Green Productions (Devin Townsend, Steve Hackett) & mixed by Jens Bogren (Between The Buried and Me, Ihsahn), the 3CD+Blu-ray release comprises all the music played on that evening, in both stereo & 5.1 Surround Sound, as well as bonus behind the scenes interviews with each band member. The Gatefold 2LP edition features the entirety of the Fauna album performed that night. Both formats featuring iconic artwork from Dan Goldsworthy, whose work also graces the cover of Fauna.
The full tracklist is as follows:
CD 1:
1. The Last Lullaby
2. Taurus
3. Nightingale
4. The Alphabet Of Me
5. Sempiternal Beings
6. Beneath The White Rainbow
7. Islands In The Clouds
8. Lovebite
9. Elephants Never Forget
10. Eyes Of Ebony
CD2:
1. Puzzle Box
2. Earthrise
3. Cockroach King
4. Nil By Mouth
5. 1985
6. The Strain
7. Strainwreck
8. Canary Yellow
9. Drowning In The Flood
CD 3:
1. Crystallised
2. Visions
Blu-ray:
1. The Last Lullaby
2. Taurus
3. Nightingale
4. The Alphabet Of Me
5. Sempiternal Beings
6. Beneath The White Rainbow
7. Islands In The Clouds
8. Lovebite
9. Elephants Never Forget
10. Eyes Of Ebony
11. Crystallised
12. Puzzle Box
13. Earthrise
14. Cockroach King
15. Nil By Mouth
16. 1985
17. The Strain
18. Strainwreck
19. Canary Yellow
20. Drowning In The Flood
21. Visions
22. Reflections: An Interview With Haken
The band will be performing on Cruise To The Edge 2025, before heading to Latin America for a run of shows. Following this the band will continue work on a brand-new studio album.
