Violeta Violeta Volume I is the sixth studio album by Kaizers Orchestra, the first installment in a trilogy of musically and lyrically connected album series known as Violeta Violeta, released on 31 January 2011. It marks a stylistic return to the microcosmic, interconnected "stories" told in lyrical form, from which the band diverged for a number of years after the release of Maestro in 2005, while retaining the deeper, more symbolic philosophic lyricism inherent in the songs of Maskineri; the sole contributing composer, Janove Ottesen, has referred to the style of the lyrical content as "magical realism". The project began in 2007, when band founder and primary songwriter Janove Ottesen hit a major creative stride, composing as much as two to three songs a day for the duration of ten days. The style of most of these songs differed from the what Kaizers Orchestra was pursuing at that point in that their lyrics were all connected by a story arc, more reminiscent of their earlier material; as such, they were shelved for the foreseeable future. Arguably the first of these songs to be revealed was "Smil Far", which was recorded during the Maskineri sessions, but would not be released for a further two years. An incomplete recording of the band performing this song was released on the website of the Norwegian radio channel P3. After the release of Maskineri in 2008, and Våre demoner, (a collection of re-recorded songs not previously released rather than an album consisting of