(Original on www.kaizers.no, Text backup here)
Historic and unique rooms, elegantly designed by East-German accoustic expertise, and what do Kaizers do? Well, they do a recording in the kitchen!- Hehe, Terje Kaizer smiles about the disclosure by Kaizer-News.
- You should mention that this is not the common practice though, this is the first and probably last time we record a song in the kitchen, but this time it was like that.
- So what happened?
- I and the singer sat in the kitchen and pondered a bit about a song that we have, it is called "butikken opp å stå". It has a pretty fierce expression on the demos we have done, and we thought it was a bit annoying to listen to it, so we sat there in the kitchen and worked on a much calmer arrangement. Mark heard us, thought we were playing nicely and wanted to record us right where we were sitting. So we roled in an organ, brought in Rune, Øyvind and studio assistent Jensen on harmonica and did a few takes.
- The arrangement is very important for your songs? Many songs go through a lot of different styles?
- If good song just don't work out right, there's an unbelievable number of different solutions for that. You could say that the one that ends up on the record, the "official" song, is often just an intermediate solution. Many of those we have done now have been changed radically in comparison to what we had in the demos, and if we had had more time, the songs would have been changed even more probably and then we would surely have started to wonder if maybe the first solution was the best or if it was a combination of for example bass of this one and guitar there and maybe also another melody in the chorus...
- Okay Ted, now you are getting very introvert here, we understand that you are in the studio bubble, but you are working on making good music after all?
- Uhem, sure. This here will be great!