CONFIDENTIAL
BREAKFAST HAZ
032
"Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against
the king. (...) Now Jeroboam was a man of standing
(...). Solomon tried to kill Jerobeam, but Jeroboam
fled to Egypt (...). When all the Israelites heard
that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called
him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel."
The Bible ( I Kings 11-12)
Lennart
A. Salomon shows class in naming his solo-case
after the bear-toothed antipode of his prominent
namesake King Solomon. Does that not express what
the premise for a creative continuity is all about?
The steady opposition and distance towards one’s
own work. A long time ago Jerobeam provoked the
wrath of the prophets by erecting idols in the
holy land. They had the shape of bulls. A skimpy
three thousand years later Lennart A. Salomon
proves himself to be almost as cantankerous, but
his humor is a bit more subtle. Just shy of a
dozen songs anyone of which could break into the
charts had it been furnished with a few trinkets
( … and packed in chicken-breast and/ or
roast beef as you wish) rumble through the groove
with no shirt on. The “Confidential Orchestra”
Benny Greb and Thomas Merkel exercise themselves
in understatement. Somebody is coming clean here
for the entire guild. It pops, it funks, and it
cries so cavalierly: It’s Pop-Propaganda!
… and at the very end Lennart Salomon himself
tells us over a confidential breakfast how to
play the game with clichés. Now this is
insolent! This is cinema for the big screen in
obscene dimensions!
LINEUP
ON "CONFIDENTIAL BREAKFAST":
Lennart A. Salomon:
Vocals, Choir, Guitar, Upright Piano, Hammond Organ,
Percussion
Thomas Merkel: Bass
Benny Greb: Drums, Trumpet
All
songs recorded, mixed and produced by Two Horses
and Kaneoka One for and at Hazelwood Studios.
HAZ
032 
