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Jerobeam

Kings of cool.

About Me

Also, Jerobeam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. (...) Now Jerobeam was a man of standing (...). Solomon tried to kill Jerobeam, but Jerobeam fled to Egypt (...). When all the Israelites heard that Jerobeam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel.
(I Kings 11-12)
Born in Frankfurt am Main, merged with London, convinced for the time being citizen of Hamburg, Lennart A. Salomon shows class in naming his solo-case after the bear-toothed antipode of his prominent namesake. Does that not express what the premise for a creative continuity is all about? The steady opposition and distance towards one’s own work.
Salomon has been quite a celebrity for a while. As the master of ceremony of the electro-trio Sono he spends months inside the studio before infiltrating the charts and promenading through Europe’s music-channels. But then with Jerobeam Salomon shows not only what else he can do, but what else he needs: that is two good friends, a couple of drums, two cheap guitars, a handful of microphones and songs, songs, and more songs. Pop-hymns wrapped in rags with the nonchalance of bell-bottoms hanging in the air with the punch of detonating gas. At best within the walls of a seedy club, no holds barred, and no end in sight.
Despite this, or perhaps for this reason Salomon is not want of the necessary portion of cynical humor to go for the gold, as the grey eminence behind the hit-single of the Switzerland-Starsearch enterprise, as some kind of a sophisticated practical joke.
We really do appreciate the fact that Salomon still manages to find the time to imvue almost all of the Hazelwood-productions in recent years with his caleidoscopic touch, be it Mardi Gras.bb, Kool Ade Acid Test, or The Broken Beats. Where does the man find the time? Where?
Jerobeam / Confidential Breakfast (Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics / Cargo)
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 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!
„Sitting on a sofa made of chocolate raisins | Licking on a salty piece of pie | The face inside the picture frame starts making faces | And when I turn around it starts to cry“ (All of my lies)
::::::DISCOGRAPHY::::::
02/03 "What's The Deal?!" - feat. members of Mardi Gras.BB
Get the album at iTunes
11/04 "Confidential Breakfast"
Get the album and an exclusive remix of "Greedy",
a non album track, done by I.L.L. Will at

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Music:

Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Website: jerobeam.com
Band Members: Lennart A. Salomon
(vox and guitars)
Thomas "Slowey" Merkel
(bass)
Benny Greb
(drums, vox - also check out www.bennygreb.com)

Influences:

The Beatles, G.Love & Special Sauce, Beck, De La Soul, Sly And The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, John Scofield, Tom Waits, Primus, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince, AC/DC, The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Mardi Gras.BB, Kool Ade Acid Test, The Broken Beats, Monty Python, The Police
Sounds Like: G. Love & Special Sauce, Beck, The Beatles, Jack Johnson, Mardi Gras.bb, Kool Ade Acid Test, Lenny Kravitz, Sly and The Family Stone, Jerobeam, The Police,
Record Label: Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Jerobeam bei Balcony TV

Hamburg ist um eine Idee reicher.Die Idee stammt zwar aus Irland, lässt sich aber wunderbar adaptieren:Balcony.TV ist die schöne Idee, auf einem kleinen Balkon große Kunst und schräge Künstler zu präs...
Posted by Jerobeam on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:37:00 PST

Ein Medley der neuen Songs

Gestern noch schrieb ich von der Magie aus dem Studio, heute dürft ihr schon dran teilhaben. Das Medley auf dem Player ist ein Zusammenschnitt der Rough Mixe einiger Songs des kommenden Albums. Wir si...
Posted by Jerobeam on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:18:00 PST

Magie!

Manchmal ist es so, dass man Dinge nicht erklären kann. Manchmal ist es so, dass man einen Haufen Fragen anhäuft und keine Antworten hat. Fragen wie: "Warum ist immer noch kein neues Jerobeam Album am...
Posted by Jerobeam on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:26:00 PST

Heute beginnen die Aufnahmen!

Es ist tatsächlich soweit:Heute gehen die Aufnahmen zum dritten Longplayer von Jerobeam los!Wir freuen uns mächtig, dass es endlich klappt und werden euch aus dem Studio auf dem Laufenden halten.Bis d...
Posted by Jerobeam on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:56:00 PST