Beirut (band)

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Beirut
Zach Condon (November 2007)
Zach Condon (November 2007)
General information
Genre (s) Folk , indie rock , Balkan brass , indie folk
founding 2006
Website www.beirutband.com
Current occupation
Zach Condon
Accordion, drums
 Jeremy Barnes
Heather consolation
Perri Cloutier
clarinet
 Hari Ziznewski
Mandolin, ukulele
 Jason Poranski
Drums
 Nick Petree
violin
 Kristin Ferebee
Ukulele, drums, organ
Paul Collins
Ukulele, saxophone, clarinet
 John Natchez
Kelly Pratt

Beirut is an American folk band led by the singer Zach Condon .

history

At the age of 15, Zach Condon recorded an album based on The Magnetic Fields under the name The Real People ( The Joys of Losing Weight ), which - like the track Scenic World on the album Gulag Orkestar - on electronic LoFi recordings based. A year later he recorded a doo-wop album inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers that has not yet been officially released. He also recorded three songs for the EP Small Time American Bats under the name 1971 . Although he is described as a very gifted student of the Santa Fe High School (New Mexico), he quit school at age 16, and travels through Europe, where he met with great enthusiasm the influences of the Balkans - brass music and folklore of the Sinti and Roma picks . His contacts with the Serbian Boban Marković Orchestra and Goran Bregović played a special role .

The direct result of these diverse inspirations was the emergence of the up to eleven-member band Beirut , with whom Zach Condon in various compositions in 2005 and 2006 the album Gulag Orkestar and the EP Lon Gisland for the music label Ba Da Bing! recording - both appeared in Europe in extended versions on the British label 4AD . While Condon had recorded most of the songs in his native Albuquerque, he moved to the New York borough of Brooklyn at the end of 2005 , where he made his recordings with the help of Jeremy Barnes ( Neutral Milk Hotel and A Hawk and A Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and A Hacksaw) finally revised. The album, which is characterized by its unique mixture of orchestral music of the Roma , melodic pop and Eastern European polka , received a wide response in the music press and the entire indie scene . Music videos for the tracks Elephant Gun and Postcards from Italy were created under the direction of Alma Har'el .

Also the recordings for the second album The Flying Club Cup , which was released in October 2007 - again on Ba Da Bing! and 4AD - were combined with numerous video performances in public. It was also here that Condon discovered his particular fondness for France , whose cities and folk culture he sang about in more songs than the orchestral sound of the Balkans. In Cliquot , Owen Pallett from Final Fantasy takes over the vocals , who also arranged the strings for the entire album.

The 2007/2008 world tour, which began very successfully in New Zealand and Australia, unexpectedly broke off Zach Condon. In a personal letter to his fans on April 3, 2008, which he published on the band's website, he apologized for this decision and indicated that he was aware of the band's unexpected success and everything related to it Head grew. At the same time, however, he announced a return with new song material, although he left it open whether the band Beirut will continue to exist.

Zach Condon returned in February 2009 with two new EPs , one released under the stage name Realpeople . The EP released under the name Beirut is called March of the Zapotec , while the Realpeople EP is called Holland . In 2011 the album The Rip Tide was released , on which chanson, polka and Balkan sound mix with elements of pop ballads.

After a four-year break, the new album No No No was released in 2015 , in which the style of the music appears a little lighter and less melancholy. The line-up was more minimalist and often only guitar, bass, piano and drums were used. Overall, the album has been described as happier and less cluttered than its predecessor. Beirut released their next album Gallipoli in 2019.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2007 The Flying Club Cup - - CH94 (1 week)
CH 		UK69 (1 week)
UK 		US118 (2 weeks)
US
Ba Da Bing
2011 The Rip Tide DE69 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT20 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH29 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK49 (2 weeks)
UK 		US80 (6 weeks)
US
Pompeii Records
2015 No no no DE38 (1 week)
DE 		AT12 (3 weeks)
AT 		CH38 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK37 (1 week)
UK 		US46 (1 week)
US
4AD
2019 Gallipoli DE21 (1 week)
DE 		AT10 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH21 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK61 (1 week)
UK 		-
4AD

More albums

  • 2006: Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing)

EPs

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2009 March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland - AT71 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH75 (1 week)
CH 		- US87 (3 weeks)
US

More EPs

  • 2007: Pompeii (Pompeii Records)
  • 2007: Elephant Gun (4AD)

Singles / EPs

  • 2006: Lon Gisland (Ba Da Bing)
  • 2007: The Guns of Brixton / Interior of a Dutch House (City Slang)
  • 2011: East Harlem / Goshen (2011, Pompeii Records)
  • 2015: Gibraltar (4AD)
  • 2015: So Allowed (4AD)
  • 2015: No No No (4AD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsflash. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Kotschate: Album of the week: Beirut - The Rip Tide. detektor.fm, August 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Divorce, burnout, lively new album. In: laut.de. Accessed December 15, 2015 (German).
  4. ^ The official website for independent record label 4AD. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US