Haken v. new single Nightingale (April 26)

[devieira73]

Very excited for the show tomorrow in São Paulo! Anybody here will be there?

[King Postwhore]

Lucky you

Without Nick, that would have never happened.

[MinistroRaven]

Any chance that was not legit on setlist.fm?

A friend of mine went to the Chile show, and he confirmed the setlist.

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Next Wednesday I will be interviewing Diego Tejeida, if you have some questions for him, write them here.

[YtseJamittaja]

What's Diego's favourite Haken tune?
If he did a side project, who would be in the band?

[MinistroRaven]

What's Diego's favourite Haken tune?
If he did a side project, who would be in the band?

Cool, thanks for these

[gzarruk]

Next Wednesday I will be interviewing Diego Tejeida, if you have some questions for him, write them here.

If Jordan Rudess were to retire and DT called you, would you take the offer?

[MinistroRaven]

Next Wednesday I will be interviewing Diego Tejeida, if you have some questions for him, write them here.

If Jordan Rudess were to retire and DT called you, would you take the offer?

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[Elite]

What's your favourite pizza?
(yes, that's a serious question)

[Nick]

I love the new Brute in his rig, but the promo video did a great job touching on that in the studio, but if you wanted to ask something along the line of how it has added to the live setup that would be nice.

With them now hitting South America, getting back to Australia, and hitting N. America and Europe with every album I'd like to hear his take on what the next steps forward for the band is, how they continue to grow and what they plan to do with their growth. I'd specifically like to know if they plan to add a video component at any point in the near future.

[Rattlehead]

Next Wednesday I will be interviewing Diego Tejeida, if you have some questions for him, write them here.

If you had to name one album that was most influential in shaping the musician you are today, what would it be?

[devieira73]

Just came back from São Paulo show, it was truly amazing!!! Same set from Chile and I coudn't be happier with the setlist for a 2 hour Haken show, really!
Great performances by the band, all played live, without anything pre-recorded, for my joy!
As performers, Ross, Diego and Ray really shine. Ross is very impressive live, he sings very faithfull to the studio performances and really knows to engage the crowd. In person, he looks like with Steve Augieri a lot. And Connor with Lionel Messi (in his beard phase)!

[MinistroRaven]

Just came back from São Paulo show, it was truly amazing!!! Same set from Chile and I coudn't be happier with the setlist for a 2 hour Haken show, really!
Great performances by the band, all played live, without anything pre-recorded, for my joy!
As performers, Ross, Diego and Ray really shine. Ross is very impressive live, he sings very faithfull to the studio performances and really knows to engage the crowd. In person, he looks like with Steve Augieri a lot. And Connor with Lionel Messi (in his beard phase)!

Awesome!

Tomorrow it's out turn! Can't wait!

[nattmorker]

Just came back from São Paulo show, it was truly amazing!!! Same set from Chile and I coudn't be happier with the setlist for a 2 hour Haken show, really!
Great performances by the band, all played live, without anything pre-recorded, for my joy!
As performers, Ross, Diego and Ray really shine. Ross is very impressive live, he sings very faithfull to the studio performances and really knows to engage the crowd. In person, he looks like with Steve Augieri a lot. And Connor with Lionel Messi (in his beard phase)!

Awesome!

Tomorrow it's out turn! Can't wait!

And friday it's Mexico! I hope they keep Celestial Elixir! I've been waiting to hear that song live.

[devieira73]

Cool! You will have a great time, I'm sure.

[Nel_Annette]

Finally listened to Vector a few times over the past month. I really enjoy it! I never was really able to get into Affinity but this one clicked with me on the second listen. Puzzle Box and The Good Doctor are the tracks I keep coming back to, but overall I enjoy the whole thing. I know seven tracks on a Haken album has been done before, but I wish we had more.

[MinistroRaven]

Last night concert was soooooo epic from start to finish, the band was on fire.
They played the same set as in Chile.
The M&G was a bit rushed as their equipments arrived late making the sound check a couple minutes after the meet and greet. The opening act didn't perform, I feel bad for them as they seemed really happy to be opening for Haken.
But it was a really good and memorable night.
The interview with Diego was amazing. It will be posted soon.

Today I woke up voiceless and with LOTS of pain on my neck.

[Zydar]

Saw this on Haken Haven

[Nick]

Looks like Haken will be supporting Devin Townsend through Europe in late 2019. Hopefully more details soon.

[cramx3]

Looks like Haken will be supporting Devin Townsend through Europe in late 2019. Hopefully more details soon.

If so, here's the tour for Devin Townsend and dates:



Seeing that combo would be unbelievable IMO.  I hope they bring that combo to the US for the same tour.

That last night of ProgPower 17 when Haken performed before DTP was one of my favorite concerts of all time.

[gzarruk]

Weren't there a few dates in 2015 with DTP and Haken supporting DT? I remember this happening during their 30th anniversary mini tour in Europe.

[cramx3]

That would be even more epic, I've been saying for awhile it would be great for Haken to open for a bigger band like DT here in the states, although DT seems to not be going back to having an opener.  DTP would be a good band to support as well though, Devin's definitely gotten more popular over the last few years.

[Nick]

Looks like Haken will be supporting Devin Townsend through Europe in late 2019. Hopefully more details soon.

If so, here's the tour for Devin Townsend and dates:



Seeing that combo would be unbelievable IMO.  I hope they bring that combo to the US for the same tour.

That last night of ProgPower 17 when Haken performed before DTP was one of my favorite concerts of all time.

They are confirmed on the Paris show, and I can't imagine they are flying in to open for one show. So really the only question right now is if they are on a run of shows or the entire tour.

[nattmorker]

Today was the Mexico city show, it was awesome. We got the full setlist (with celestial elixir). After crystallized Richard had some issues with his keyboard, the rest of the band started jamming and played Africa (the whole band played it, Richard joined them at the last verse).

[cramx3]

I love when stuff like that happens, awesome 

[lonestar]

Here's the video, just great stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WftKz7rE7k&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1-3k3G25-qb6DEZjtV7DAhsRkG1wE0BG27EemLYkw0tJW8LoKzyXzNn7g

[GasparXR]

Saw this on Haken Haven

[cramx3]

Looks like Haken are doing a covers only set on the cruise to the edge. I wonder if Africa will get played again since it seemed that had that up their sleeves.

[Nick]

No surprises in the first set, just standard NA tour set. Know a few of the covers for tonight, but won't have connection again till back in Tampa so just keep an eye online. They also have at least one guest coming up for the set.

[cramx3]

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/haken/2019/ms-brilliance-of-the-seas-tampa-fl-7b952288.html

They did Van Halen's Jump?!  I wonder how that went, looks like a cool show

[faizoff]

I've been trying to get into this band for the longest time and just couldn't. Not sure why. The music has everything I'm sure would love. But never clicked. at. all. I think I heard affinity first just couldn't get through it. Then gave parts of The Mountain a shot, couldn't get through it either. I remember the same thing happening with BTBAM when I first tried to get into them. Though after a long time and trying a few more times I finally got into BTBAM and they are now one of my absolute favorite bands.

Went to the Neal Morse Band show this past Saturday and the inhouse music is a playlist curated by Mike Portnoy and of course Haken is on them as he's a huge fan of theirs. I guess something clicked, came home and listened to Vector and enjoyed it immensely. Since then I've listened to Affinity again and have to say not sure how I didn't get into them the first time I heard 1985. That is a track that could very well have been on the transformers movie soundtrack. I also heard The mountain and that was great as well. The band sounds like a blend of Threshold & Meshuggah at times.

I've ordered all the other albums so just waiting to get them in the mail. Can't wait to watch the L-1VE video, really wished it was released on blu-ray but oh well. From the albums I've heard so far Affinity is the favorite so far. though I still have some more listens to go through.
I'm also very sad I missed them on tour when they came in my neck of the woods.

Needless to say I have some catching up to do.

One question, is the live album L+1VE CD only available with the vinyl? Is the CD not sold separately? Plus what's with Affinity not being listed on lasercd's site? All other albums are there. I had to get it off ebay.

[The Letter M]

One question, is the live album L+1VE CD only available with the vinyl? Is the CD not sold separately? Plus what's with Affinity not being listed on lasercd's site? All other albums are there. I had to get it off ebay.

Welcome to the Haken fandom, hope you enjoy your time! As for L+1VE, as far as I know, the ONLY physical copies released were the vinyl w/CD set (which I ordered, just to own it physically). Otherwise, I think the band had said on their Facebook page before release date last December that it would also be made available digitally (which I haven't looked up since I haven't needed to). It's well worth buying if you enjoy the four songs present on the EP. It's a great companion to L-1VE, and the live versions of those songs really stand out! I hope we get more live Haken in the future! I'm just happy we've gotten live versions of two of their side-length epics with "Visions" and "Crystallised". Would like to see them release a live version of "Celestial Elixir" some time too!

-Marc.

[gzarruk]

Would like to see them release a live version of "Celestial Elixir" some time too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFQAHc8oao

[faizoff]

So is affinity out of print officially?

[The Letter M]

So is affinity out of print officially?

Seems like it. Amazon isn't selling it at original retail, and a Google search pulled up eBay and other third party sellers at slightly higher prices. Perhaps they will re-release it in a few years? That's a bummer that it's so hard to find already, despite being less than 3 years old. So glad I got the limited digipak 2CD edition when it came out (which was their first new release after I became a fan).

-Marc.

[Fritzinger]

Are you guys talking about the CD or the vinyl?

The CD can be bought at German Amazon Prime for 12,99€.
https://www.amazon.de/Affinity-Standard-CD-Jewelcase-Haken/dp/B01C3Z042S/ref=ice_ac_b_dpb_twi_aud_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550154766&sr=8-1&keywords=haken+affinity

The vinyl can be found for 25,10€ plus shipping here:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Haken-Affinity/release/8453071