Janove Ottesen

Janove Ottesen (born Jan Ove Ottesen, 1975) is a Norwegian musician, born in Stord, Hordaland, Norway. He specializes in vocals, guitar and barrels, and is a leading member of the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra.

Janove Ottesen
Janove Ottesen performing in Bremen with his band Kaizers Orchestra in 2005.
Background information
Also known asJanove "The Jackal" Kaizer
Born (1975-08-27) 27 August 1975
Stord, Norway
GenresRock, Pop, Folk music
InstrumentsVocals, Guitar, Oil barrel, Drums, Piano, Hammond, Glockenspiel, Percussion, Accordion, Horn
Associated actsKaizers Orchestra, gnom

History

Youth and first contact with music

Bryne, where Ottesen grew up, had few activities available at the time other than football, so he was given a guitar by his grandmother when he was a child. Ottesen and his friend Geir Zahl began writing music in his cellar, recording their music on a cheap tape recorder.

The partnership between Ottesen and Zahl eventually evolved into the band Blod, Snått og Juling. In 1994 they produced their first studio album En glad tunnel, which only sold 50 copies. They made a more serious attempt with better studio equipment for their second album, but this still only managed to sell around 100 copies.

gnom and Kaizers Orchestra
Janove Ottesen, Kaizers Orchestra at Trans Musicales 2004 in Rennes

Ottesen moved to Bergen in 1995 to study. In 1996 he joined the army, but soon after moved back to Bergen and became a music teacher. Upon his return Ottesen and Geir formed a new band gnom. They released the album Mys in 1998, but it sold poorly. After gnom's dissolution, the pair finally found critical success in forming the band Kaizers Orchestra.

Solo career

After two albums had been released by Kaizers Orchestra, Janove decided to launch a parallel solo career while working on a third album Maestro (released in 2005). His 2004 solo album, Francis' Lonely Nights is entirely in English and contains 12 songs, two of which had their music videos filmed in Scandinavia.

In September 2015 Ottesen announced he was returning to the mainstream music industry under the artist name Janove. His first single "Regnbuen Treffer Oss Ikkje Lenger" ("The Rainbow Doesn't Hit Us Anymore") premiered on Spellemannprisen on 30 January 2016 as he performed it live for the first time. He says his music will have influences of R'n'B, hiphop and rap music". The lyrics will also be more modern than the fans might have gotten used to with Kaizers Orchestra.

Career as a producer and other music

In 2007, Kaizers decided to take a break for the majority of the year, only writing up demos for their fourth album and playing three concerts (including opening the German art expo Documenta festival). Janove took this opportunity to write music for Det Tusende Hjertet, a family musical which opened in November 2007. In August 2007 he revealed that his next side project will not be a solo album, and that he has assembled another band (like fellow Kaizer bandmate Terje Winterstø Røthing and his band Skambankt). Nothing is known about the status of this project.

Aside from his work with Kaizers and as an independent artist, he has also acted as producer for multiple albums, working with various artists with various styles, including Micke From Sweden (Folk), Britt-Synnøve Johansen (Tango), and The Brigade (Americana). He also participated in Geir "Uncle Deadly" Zahl's album Monkey Do, that was released on 1 February 2010.

Personal life

Ottesen is married and has two children. They live in Stavanger.

Discography

Blod, Snått & Juling
  • Ein Glad Tunnel (released in 50 copies in 1994, only on music cassette)
  • Sympatiske Fisk (released in 100 copies in 1995, only on music cassette)
  • Unreleased Cassette (1996)

gnom
  • Mys (1998)

Kaizers Orchestra

Albums

EPs and Live Recordings

Solo

Albums
  • Unreleased Solo Project (1997)
  • Francis' Lonely Nights (2004)
  • Artisten og Marlene (2017)
  • Hengtmann (2018)
  • Det sorte karneval (2021)

EPs
  • Spindelvevriff (2018)
  • Barrikadeballader (2020)

Singles
  • Regnbuen treffer oss ikkje lenger (2016)
  • Verden går til helvete, tralala (2016)
  • Aldri la de tru de er bedre enn deg (2016)
  • Marlene (2016)
  • Hengtmann (2017)
  • Våpen (feat. Ane Brun) (2017)
  • Bak en sky heim (2018)
  • En større dag (2018)
  • Det sorte karneval (2019)
  • Verdens lengste farvel (2020)
  • Opp Av Ruiner (2020)

Musical Theatre & Orchestral
  • Det Tusende Hjertet (2007)
  • Pirater! (with Geir Zahl, Unreleased, 2011)
  • Sonny (Unreleased, 2011)
  • Do You Love Me (Collaboration with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, 2012)
  • Peter Pan (Unreleased, 2016)
  • The Mute (collaboration with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, 2018, recording released 2019)
  • Violeta Violeta (Musical theatre adaptation of Kaizers' trilogy, with Geir Zahl, in development)
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