Saturday 19 March 2011

Kaizers Orchestra - 170


The Norweigan sextet Kaizers Orchestra build cathartic rock songs that borrow heavily from the dirges of Tin Pan Alley and Eastern European folk music. Formed in the late ’90s in the city of Bergen. Yesterday did they visit a sold out Debaser Medis, Stockholm for a show on their resent tour.




It was the second time I got the chance to work with Kaizers, which is quite nice, cozy crew. The only thing I do not understand is why on earth should we drag along so much stuff when they should play in such small places:). Also last time they had lots of stuff, thought they had learned, but no. Last time they dragged with them among other things a giant sign in metal that I got in my head, so my hair color suddenly became red.

The show this time was very entertaining and they played 23 songs, did include all the hits. He said on one occasion, that he visited earlier in the day a record store and picked a bunch of records and came to the checkout. He asked the neatly dressed clerk to ”anbefaler” (Norweigan word for recommend) a couple of records of soul and funk and got only a ... What? He said the same thing once again and got a ...What? again. Until he told the Swedish word "recommend" The penny then went down for the clerk.

Kaizers Orchestra are notable for being among the first non-black metal Norwegian bands or artists singing in their native language to become popular in non-Scandinavian Europe

Here is some pictures from the show…





 





Todays tune ”170” taken from the album "Ompa til du dør" performed live at Vega, Copenhagen



This is the song about a soldier who went out to the war, left his wife and chilren, fought the war and lost..but before he lost, he wrote a letter home to his wife...and his name was Mr. 170

The tune is taken from "Live at Vega” that is a two-disc live album released on March 6, 2006. It features their recorded concert performance at Vega, a concert hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 6, 2005. It was originally meant to be released alongside the DVD recording of the same concert, Viva La Vega, but the release of the DVD was delayed until later that year.



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