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Background

The first new composition after the release of their third studio album, Maestro, was "Du og dine er even" (the song's title would later be changed to "Moment") which was first played at a show at the famous Rockefeller concert hall in Oslo, Norway. A day after the first performance, a private concert was held for fans who had won a contest held as a promotion for their 2006 live album Live at Vega. Here, not only did Kaizers Orchestra play some rarely played b-sides but "Du og dine er even" was performed again, and frontman Janove Ottesen also single-handedly performed a new composition; a pump organ ballad called "Under månen". Around the same time, the band confirmed in an interview that the band was working on a song "about a dying man in a boat who, before he dies, tells the sea about his life". This has later been confirmed to be "Med en gong eg når bånn".

No new material surfaced until the band's Grand Finale Tour in autumn 2006, where two new songs; "Den sjette sansen" and "9 mm" were played, along with "Du og dine er even". Also, during the tour a fan managed to record parts of a soundcheck session at the small concert venue Tobakken in Denmark, where they performed for the first time, two untitled new songs, which were later confirmed to be "Enden av november" and "Du og meg Lou". The songs had been written earlier that day. After the last of the three concerts at the Vega concert hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, the band officially announced that they would take a small sabbatical from acting as the collective group Kaizers Orchestra, so that all members could pursue their own projects until fall 2007. During this period, they negotiated their release from their contract with Universal Germany. They also played three live shows in 2007, despite the aforementioned announcement.

Janove Ottesen and Geir Zahl continued writing songs for Kaizers Orchestra throughout the end of 2006 and into 2007. A 30-track demo was recorded in early 2007.