(Original on www.kaizers.no, Text backup here)
Kaizers Orchestra were in the studio in Jæren this January and recorded 11 new old songs. On April 20, "Våre demoner" ("Our demons") will be released!Kaizers Orchestra have always been a hard-working live band, but they have also been very productive when it comes to songwriting. For each album that was released, there have been between five and ten unused, but qualified candidates that didn't make it. Some have been played live, some have lived a life among the fans as demo versions, and others have just remained in the desk drawer.
- We had an idea about doing something with these songs at some point in time, Janove and Geir explain, who have looked through their song archives for this release now.
- Now we feel that we are constant enough as a band that we can show the fans the songs that we chose not to include on the previous albums, without them "getting in the way" in some manner.
- You choose not to call these songs b-songs, is this because you are born-and-bred social democrats with a need for equality, or are these songs really on par with those that made it on the album?
- He he, you can say it like that, but it is probably a way to prove in praxis that we are really an ALBUM-band. We make pretty steady material. There are very few who only like our singles, so to speak.
In the booklet of the album we can read explanations about every single song, in addition to the information about the release itself. Citation: "These are new recordings of old Kaizer songs. These songs didn't make it on our albums because we thought that they 1. didn't fit in 2. weren't really finished 3. didn't represent what we from a musical point of view wanted to stand for when they were made."
- Some of these songs, like "Medisin & psykiatri" and "Die polizei" had their own live-life, and we got lots of requests to record studio versions of these songs. And we listen to our fans, so this is exactly what we did now.
- We are talking about eleven songs on this release, from what time are these songs?
- They span from the first Kaizer demo until the last record. We have three songs from Ompa til du dør, three from Evig pint, four from Maestro and one from Maskineri, so here you get almost ten years of outtakes!
- Will some of them surprise more than others?
- The three songs from the Evig pint era surprised us the most, at least. All of these could actually have made it right onto the album, but this is something that will be fun to discuss with the fans now. There are quite a lot out there who really know the Kaizers catalogue, and it's mostly these people that this release is for.
- Why don't you just release the old demos then?
- First of all, the reason is that we don't have the tapes and files for those, so we can't mix them and work on them. Additionally, some of them are so badly recorded and so rottenly performed that we simply can't account for releasing them. It's actually more practicing than recording, and they would surely be funny for our hardcore fans to listen to once or twice. But we rather wanted to release "Our demons" than "Our demos". This is why we recorded them anew.
We are looking forward!
Here's the article in VG.