(Original on Lydverket, Text backup here)
See Ane Dahl Torp as desperate mother in the new music video for "Hjerteknuser"!After Kaizers' huge cover competition got its worthy winner this week, it is now time to take a look at the brand-new video for their own version of "Hjerteknuser". The song is the first single from the album Violeta, Violeta Volume I, the first in a planned trilogy. The video introduces us to the story that will run as a blood-red thread through all the albums, vocalist Janove Ottesen explains:
- Violeta, Violeta tells the story of Violeta and her parents, Kenneth and Beatrice. When Violeta was 7 years old, her father took her along with him and fled from the mother, who in her grief cried a bucket of tears every single year.
Seven buckets later, Beatrice is still searching for her abducted daughter, and "Hjerteknuser" describes the longing and desperation that she feels. In the video, we meet Ane Dahl-Torp in her role as the vodka-shotting and pump-organ-playing Beatrice. Ottesen says he is happy with the distribution of work during the video shoot.
- She took the worst of the brunt, with crying and self-torching and all that. We are used to standing in the sea and freezing our fingers off in suits when we shoot a video, so for us this was an unusually pleasant situation.
Not all elements in the video make sense - yet. Ottesen says that they used some parts of the story that haven't been unfurled yet.
- Much of what you see is linked to events that haven't taken place yet. After the first album comes out January 31, you will understand more.
On 11/11/2011, the musical "Sonny" will premiere at Rogaland Theatre, where Kaizers do the music and Tore Renberg the script. The theatrical backdrop for Violeta, Violeta is also unmistakable kaizeresk, and Ottesen doesn't rule out taking Violeta, Kenneth, and Beatrice on stage as well.
- We imagine that there might be a play of this - or a movie.
Until then, we can look forward to Kaizers Orchestra live in Oslo Spektrum:
- On April 9, 2011, history repeats itself: We'll come from Germany to take over Oslo.