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JANUAR 2012

Kaizers Orchestra udsender 23. januar anden del af album-trilogi - “VIOLETA, VIOLETA VOL. II”

De er danskernes absolutte yndlings-nordmænd og samtidig Norges største band. Siden Kaizers Orcehstra for godt ti år siden med debut-albummet fik danskerne til at danse ”Ompa til du dør”, er bandets status i Danmark og en række andre europæiske lande kun vokset.
Det er siden blevet til en række albumudgivelser og ikke mindst uforglemmelige koncerter i Danmark. Senest da Kaizers Orchestra i 2011 skabte en af årets mest uforglemmelige fester på Orange Scene på Roskilde Festival.

Nu er Kaizers Orchestra klar til at udgive ”Violeta, Violeta Vol. II” – anden del af den album-trilogi, der startede med et album i februar 2011. ”Volume I var gennemarrangeret og varieret i genrer og med hyppige skift i musikalske temaer og stemninger. Volume II er mere genrebevidst, har mere fokus på elguitar og går mere i dybden på rock- og popkategorien”, siger forsanger Janove Ottesen om albummet.

”Violeta Violeta” er en romantisk tragedie, som fortælles gennem 30 sange fordelt på tre album. Trilogien er Kaizers Orchestras største og mest ambitiøse projekt nogensinde.
Historien handler om en far, som kidnapper sin egen datter, flygter og gemmer sig ude i verden. Dette kan man godt forstå, eftersom barnets mor, Beatrice, er besat af både det gode og det onde. Hun er en blanding af syg og ekcentrisk og har evner som folk normalt ikke besdder - hun er klarsynet, og hun kan bevidst leve parallelt i en drøm. Beatrice sidder handlingslammet og sørger i syv år, før hun en dag vågner op og bestemmer sig for at rejse ud i verden og finde Violeta og tage et opgør med manden.

Den tredje og sidste del af triologien, Violeta Violeta vol. III, udkommer i november 2012.

I forbindelse med albumudgivelsen starter Kaizers Orchestra deres Europa-turné i Danmark med følgende koncerter:

26. januar: København, Vega
27. januar: Aarhus, Train
28. januar: Aalborg, Skråen
15. marts: Odense, Posten

NOVEMBER 2010
VIOLETA VIOLETA

A romantic tragedy by
KAIZERS ORCHESTRA
Volume I

A brief band history

Kaizers Orchestra saw their debut in 2001 with the critically acclaimed "Ompa til du dør", winning a Norwegian Grammy and becoming the country's best-selling debut rock album to date with over 100 000 units sold. This combined with the bands intense live performance and 150 concerts a year in Norway led to their first international gig at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in the summer of 2002. The concert opened new doors to Europe. In 2003, after a stunning 30-minute appearance at Eurosonic in Holland, the band were booked for 20 festivals throughout Europe for the following summer... A European adventure had began! Since then Kaizers Orchestra has been active in 10 countries, effectively dismissing claims that a band can't sing in Norwegian outside Norway!

ALBUM HISTORY

"Ompa til du dør" was released in September 2001. The songs are sang in a Norwegian dialect with topics such as gypsies, the war and organized crime. The music being richly textured with pump organ, oil drums beat with crowbars and a gas mask, was based on ramshackle and energetic gypsy-punk-rock.
In 2003, the band followed their debut with the much heavier and darker "Evig Pint", proving the band to be more than just a party/circus band and establishing them as one of Norway’s premier rock bands.

"Maestro" was released by Universal Germany in 2005. Perhaps the bands most genuine piece of work up until this album. "Maestro" was the final album of the trilogy beginning with "Ompa til du dør". Here the universe Kaizers had created blossomed into it's full potential.
A play is in production based around the music, stories and characters from the trilogy and will premier in November 2011 with the working title “Sonny”.

2008 saw the release of "Maskineri". Here the band made an intentional break from the past, and produced a platinum-selling album, critically acclaimed because of its departure from the previous albums. There were no gypsy songs or circus music, instead here they delivered beautiful, grandiose pop/rock.
During this time the band also released many EP’s, two live albums, a DVD and a B-side album which went straight to number one in Norway!

Now Kaizers Orchestra is embarking on their biggest project ever "Violeta Violeta". Once again we have a trilogy; Volume I to be released January 2011, Volume II in January 2012 and the final Volume III in November of 2012. The first of the three albums is in a sense one step back and two steps forward for the band. It is a maximalist album with 10 songs, each one different in style and arrangements. It is a creative, yet finely balanced album and according to front-singer Janove Ottesen, it is without a doubt the best Kaizers album so far, even surpassing his personal favorite "Maestro". This trilogy introduces a whole new "Kaizers Universe" with completely new characters, once again with a common thread lyrically to tie the 3 albums together. Lyrics with supplement will come with the CD booklet as well as versions translated to German and English on Kaizer's website.

SINGLE / ALBUM / TOUR
The first taste from this extensive project is the single "Hjerteknuser", a grand romantic pop song to be released November 2010. Frontsinger Janove and bassist for Kaizers will at that time embark on a comprehensive release/promo tour performing mini-concerts of the single and other new material from Volume I with release date 31st of January 2011.
In March the band will embark on a major European tour running for 6 weeks. The tour will culminate on April 9th, with the band celebrating their 10 year anniversary with their fans at Norway’s biggest venue "Oslo Spectum". Kaizers Orchestra will also be playing festivals through out Europe next summer.


August 2009
Norske Kaizers Orchestra og danske Spleen United må siges at repræsentere 2 forskellige sub-genrer af rock, men fælles for dem er, at de formår at levere et liveshow udover det sædvanlige.
I det danske ringhjørne præsenteres Spleen United der kombinerer det elektroniske univers’ store lydflader og hypnotiske beats med rockens dybde, mørke og intensitet.
I det norske hjørne vil Kaizer’s Orchestra tage rockmusikken en tur gennem et sandt inferno af polka, punk, balkan-musik og cabaret-elementer, og giver aldrig op før alle har overgivet sig. Med deres egne ord: ”Du måsta umpa till du dör.

Så mon ikke pubikum kan høste gevinsten – et brag af en koncertoplevelse, hvor denne Grundlovsdag vil kulminere i en hyldest til mørket, dansen og festen.

Koncerten finder sted på Brandts Klædefabrik, Amfiscenen, fredag d. 5. Juni (Grundlovsdag).
Billetterne sættes i salg mandag d. 23. Marts kl. 10.00 på www.gaffabillet.dk


Hør Kaizers orchestra her: www.myspace.com/kaizerso
Hør Spleen United her: www.myspace.com/spleenutd

Marts, 2009