(Original on dagbladet.no)
A summer song for really dark July nights.What lay in the water before, is now being shaken, Janove Ottesen sings in the energetic and striking first single of Kaizers Orchestra with a new, big record company.
Kaizers have luckily never been wholly under water, and neither are the now.
From the first catchy riff you hear who is playing. Here there is no attempt to break with their own concept. Kaizers is Kaizers; crooked and dynamic, as we know them from earlier CDs. Apparently it is about a carpenter that has worked hard and thoroughly through a long working life. Possibly he also has a son that swings the hammer. Maybe it is him who is Maestro. The chorus is typical Tom Waits-like. It is in English and goes "swing little hammer". The music starts to pound from the first verse also. A simple, but effective riff, that bends a note in the middle which gives an oriental or balkan-like impression.
It is simply impossible not to be caught by that song.
It is an typical Kaizers-song; hard, brutal, striking - but at the same time poetic, when the singer lets the voice flow in a calm way in the verse, backed by a tremolo-like guitar or an accordion. A small light-sky summer song - that sounds best after sunset.