Less than a year after Martin Hall’s gold selling collaboration with Danish platinum act Hanne Boel, Hall and Skeel released the album Metropolitan Suite, a labour of love that had taken the two gents three years to finish.

With titles such as “Walking on Eggshells”, “Unzipping the Abstract” and “Plaza Flesh” the audience was given a fair warning – this was not a work of intending radio hits, rather a joyous voyage of exploration into the literary realms of vaudeville, chamber music and cabaret-styled intellectualism.

Quoting Hall from an interview made at the time of the release, Metropolitan Suite was his idea of “the perfect follow-up album to the Boel & Hall success”. Despite critical acclaim the record was obviously destined to remain a niche release, so although Metropolitan Suite was an artistic highpoint, it remained a commercial disaster costing Hall’s new label MNW a fair amount of money.

The single “My Argentine Rose” included the instrumental bonus track ”Pantomime Bloodline”.