(Original on www.kaizers.no, Text backup here)
Kaizers are celebrated all over Europe - well, except for Sweden...While the reviews in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria are praising Kaizers' new album "Maestro", the tone is very different in Sweden's biggest paper.
The main reviewer Markus Larsson is not impressed at all. He just calls "Maestro" a failure.
"The groups mixes kalinka music with tango and ompa-ompa. All that had nightmares about how a progressive German juggler vaudeville with troll Carl-Einar Häcker and junk dwarf Tom Waits in the main roles would sound and look like can now wake up screaming. Question: What the hell are they doing?", Larsson writes. (Remark: Or something like that. I don't know Swedish...)
Also other Swedish reviewers are raising their battle axes.
Explanation? Janove tries: - The big brother (= Sweden) is now on its knees. It's hard to admit that Norway has now passed Sweden as one of the world's most important music nations. The Swedes can never approve that Norway does better now in their own domain, pop music, Ottesen tells VG, before he delivers the following tirade:
- The golden times of the Swedes are over, and it is cool to be Norwegian now. Everywhere in Europe we are asked questions why Norwegian music of all genres is of such high quality, individuality and personality. And that happens because of ,among others, the old Swedisch pop-era that consisted of uniform, soulless, formatted and flat pop.
Next week, Kaizers will play in Sweden...