(Original on www.kaizers.no)
The Maestro single, including three extra tracks and the Maestro video, is now available in record stores all over the country. A small foretaste of the album which will come out August 15.- Kaizers Orchestra has never had any tradition to release a single before the album is on sales, what happened?
- Mainly this is due to the fact that Universal Germany wanted to have a single out before the album comes out. That's the way it is done down there, and now that it shall come out in Germany we didn't want to be mean to the Norwegian fans and not release it here. Additionally, we have recorded more songs than we could fit on the album, so this is a nice way to do "b-sides" for those who are interested higher-than-average in what music we have written over the last two years, The Jackal Kaizer explains, from his exile in Sweden, actually.
- How would you yourselves describe the songs?
- Most have heard Maestro already. It has classic Kaizers elements like the hookline, the dynamics with guitar-drive during the chorus, together with a little more impudent funky backing and maybe heavier vocals than before. We have played På Ditt Skift live several times. It is a massive and grandiose thing that also contains a calm part. Both of these songs represent the record pretty good, as they have many themes and atmospheres in one and only one song. This is something whe have worked with this time. D-Dagen is Kaizer-rock with Ted Winters at the guest vocals. Right there and one take in the studio. No looking back. Very crude and somehow the exact antipode to the Kaizers universe, you could say, while Sorti is the other extreme with a careful, almost frightend approach. A very atmospheric and ghostly little insight in the mystic, the one or the other.
Well, we look forward to the rest!