In September 2015 Ottesen announced he was returning to the mainstream music industry under the artist name Janove. 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. After gnom's dissolution, the pair finally found critical success in forming the band Kaizers Orchestra.Īfter 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). They released the album Mys in 1998, but it sold poorly. Upon his return Ottesen and Geir formed a new band gnom. In 1996 he joined the army, but soon after moved back to Bergen and became a music teacher.
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Ottesen moved to Bergen in 1995 to study. Janove Ottesen, Kaizers Orchestra at Trans Musicales 2004 in Rennes They made a more serious attempt with better studio equipment for their second album, but this still only managed to sell around 100 copies. In 1994 they produced their first studio album En glad tunnel, which only sold 50 copies. The partnership between Ottesen and Zahl eventually evolved into the band Blod, Snått og Juling. Ottesen and his friend Geir Zahl began writing music in his cellar, recording their music on a cheap tape recorder. History Youth and first contact with music īryne, 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. 1.4 Career as a producer and other music.