Month: February 2001
MY ARGENTINE ROSE
MY ARGENTINE ROSE
MARTIN HALL/CHRISTIAN SKEEL
CD SINGLE
FEBRUARY 2001
MNW (MNWCDS300)
My Argentine Rose is a single released to support the classically orchestrated album Metropolitan Suite made in collaboration with visual artist Christian Skeel. The single was Martin Hall’s first release as a singer since his gold record achievement with the Boel & Hall album in 2000.
The album features 25 musical fin de siècle vignettes. Electrical instruments were banned on the recordings, a method of working that secured the album its fine air of Viennese exclusivity.
1. My Argentine Rose (1:52)
2. Pantomime Bloodline (2:46)
MY ARGENTINE ROSE
She’s a cool breeze of discontent
She’s like a story that never ends
She’s my Argentine rose
She’s such a delicate rose
See the twenties within her eyes
Eternal stardust that never dies
She’s my Argentine rose
She’s such a delicate rose
She’s my melancholic maybe
Come and save me
Come and set me free
Christian Skeel: Piano
Martin Hall: Vocals
The Vista Dome Ensemble: Orchestra
Design: Kenneth Schultz
Photo: Casper Sejersen
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”.
