Artist.......: Beirut
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: AlternRock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Jan-18-2008
Str.date.....: Jan-00-2008
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.beirutband.com/
track title time
Live de la Semaine
01. StΘphane Saunier - Intro
02. Beirut - Nantes
03. Beirut - Scenic world
04. Beirut - Forks and knives (la fΩte)
05. Beirut - Postcards from Italy
06. Beirut - A sunday smile
07. Beirut - Mount Wroclai
08. Beirut - In the mausoleum
09. Beirut - The penalty
10. StΘphane Saunier - Ending
Runtime 32:16 min
Size 38,9 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded : January 2008 (Canal+ / France)
One of 2006's most unexpected indie success stories,
Beirut combines a wide variety of styles, from pre-rock
pop music and Eastern European gypsy styles to the
alternately plaintive and whimsical indie folk of the
Decemberists and the lo-fi, homemade psychedelic
experimentation of Neutral Milk Hotel. That the central
figure in all of this is a teenager from Albuquerque, NM,
makes Beirut's debut album, Gulag Orkestar, all the more
surprising.
Something of a musical prodigy, singer and
multi-instrumentalist Zach Condon was making one-man
D.I.Y. bedroom recordings by his early teens; in
interviews, he claims to have recorded an entire album of
1950s-style doo wop material and a collection of
electronic pop songs inspired by the Magnetic Fields.
(Indeed, Condon's dolorous vocal delivery and low,
somewhat shaky pitch sound directly inspired by the
Fields' Stephin Merritt.) After dropping out of high
school, Condon claims to have traveled through Europe at
the age of 16, in the process becoming exposed to the
Balkan folk and gypsy music that's at the heart of Gulag
Orkestar. Back home in Albuquerque, Condon crossed paths
with fellow New Mexican Jeremy Barnes, formerly of Neutral
Milk Hotel, whose own albums as A Hawk and a Hacksaw share
similarly ethnographic interests with Condon's new
material. With the help of Barnes and his A Hawk and a
Hacksaw partner, Heather Trost, Condon recorded the songs
that would make up Gulag Orkestar largely on his own,
playing accordion, keyboards, saxophone, clarinet,
mandolin, ukulele, horns, glockenspiel, and percussion
along with Barnes' drums and Trost's cello and violin.
After Barnes gave an early version of the album to Ba Da
Bing! Records label head Ben Goldberg, the newly
christened band Beirut was signed to the New Jersey-based
label and Condon moved from Albuquerque to Brooklyn, where
he put together a floating collective of part-time
bandmembers along the lines of Broken Social Scene for
live performances. Following the release of Gulag Orkestar
in May 2006, critical approbation quickly moved from the
smallest blogs to mainstream media outlets that pegged
Condon as a one-man cross between Jeff Mangum, Conor
Oberst, and Sufjan Stevens. The EP Lon Gisland followed in
2007, leading up to the full-length The Flying Club Cup
later that year.