Beirut

As Zach Condon’s band grows, so, it seems, does his vision. At the tender age of 22, under the moniker Beirut, Condon is touring on his second full-length, The Flying Club Cup. Continuing to use Balkan brass ensembles like Kocani Orkestar and Goran Bregovi as a primary influences, Condon also nods to French crooners like […]

WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING about Beirut’s debut CD, Gulag Orkestar, the following things came to mind during my first month of incessant listening: elephants, gypsies, rusty tubas patched with duct tape, crowded street markets, intoxicated drumlines, dust being kicked up by bare, shuffling feet, and ballads of Old World lament. It opens with the title track, […]