Live at Vega is a two-disc

Double album

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 live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 released by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 alternative

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 rock group

Rock music

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 Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Snått & Juling in 1989.Kaizers Orchestra are notable for...

, on March 6, 2006. It features their recorded concert performance at Vega, a concert hall in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

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, on October 6, 2005. It was originally meant to be released alongside the DVD recording of the same concert, Viva La Vega

Viva La Vega

Viva La Vega is a Live DVD featuring the Norwegian alternative rock band Kaizers Orchestra produced by the Norwegian company Amazon Film. It features their concert at Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark on 6 October 2005, as well as documentaries, music videos, a biography, and stills...

, but the release of the DVD was delayed until later that year. The inside information reads:

Who would have thought that a rattling, rampaging, Norwegian singing orchestra would have the crowds go crazy at Vega in Copenhagen one October evening in 2005? Probably the same people who would bet their whole record collection that thousands of Germans, Swiss and Spanish would one day holler along to songs in a language they did not understand, dance the "Ompa", and shout "Hallelujah" to six saviours in Swedish suits playing gypsy music from Norway.



Live at Vega is proof that anything is possible; that a spastic, foreign-sounding orchestra from tiny Norway can become one of the world’s greatest live bands. The band that lives up to it`s own slogan: "Kontroll på Kontinentet", Rule the Continent, That band is Kaizers Orchestra.



The grand "Maestro Tour 05" saw Kaizers Orchestra playing 65 concerts throughout ten countries over a period of three months. These CDs gives you the entire 30th concert, from one of the best concert venues in Europe.

Track listing

All songs are performed in the Norwegian language

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

, with some English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 dialogue. Lyrics and music by Janove Ottesen

Janove Ottesen

Janove Ottesen is a Norwegian musician, born at Bryne, Rogaland, Norway. He specializes in vocals, guitar and barrels, and is a leading member of the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra.-History:...

, unless otherwise noted.

Disc one

1. "KGB"
2. "Delikatessen" (Delicatessen)
3. "Knekker deg til sist" (Break You in the End)
4. "Hevnervals" (Avenger's waltz)
5. "Container" (Dumpster) (Geir Zahl)
6. "Señor Flamingos adieu" (Instrumental)
7. "Blitzregn baby" (Blitz rain baby)
8. "Bøn fra helvete" (Prayer from Hell) (Ottesen/Zahl)
9. "Mann mot mann" (Man against Man)
10. "Kontroll på kontinentet" (Control over the Continent)
11. "Christiania" (Christiania)
12. "På ditt skift" (On Your Shift)
13. "Dr. Mowinckel" (Zahl)
14. "Di Grind" (Your Gate)
15. "Dieter Meyers Inst." (Dieter Meyer's Institution)

Disc two

1. "Evig pint" (Eternally Tormented)
2. "Ompa til du dør" (Ompa 'till you Die)
3. "Maestro"
4. "Mr. Kaizer, hans Constanze og meg" (Mr. Kaizer, his Constanze and I)
5. "Sigøynerblod" (Gypsy Blood) (Ottesen/Zahl)
6. "Bak et halleluja" (Behind a Hallelujah)
7. "Resistansen" (The Resistance)
8. "170"
9. "Die Polizei" (The Police)