Artist: Beirut/RealPeople
Title: March Of The Zapotec/Holland
Label: Pompeii
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 154kbit av.
Time: 00:34:41
Size: 40.24 mb
Rip Date: 2009-01-23
Str Date: 2009-02-16
1. Beirut - El Zocalo 0:28
2. Beirut - La Llorona 3:34
3. Beirut - My Wife 2:10
4. Beirut - The Akara 3:53
5. Beirut - On A Bayonet 1:40
6. Beirut - The Shrew 3:43
7. Realpeople - My Night With The Prostitute From 3:07
Marseille
8. Realpeople - My Wife, Lost In The Wild 3:13
9. Realpeople - Venice 4:01
10. Realpeople - The Concubine 3:28
11. Realpeople - No Dice 5:24
Release Notes:
Both EP's were on 1 promo CD but the retail will split the 2
EP's onto 2 Disc's.
'Beirut - March Of The Zapotec EP'
'RealPeople - Holland EP'
After the widely acclaimed 2007 album The Flying Club Cup,
which hit many album of the year lists including the NME,
Uncut, Q, The Sun and The Telegraph, the extremely talented
young songwriter and musician Zach Condon returns with his
third record under the guise of Beirut. The full-length album
entitled March Of The Zapotec is comprised of two EPs.
The first, and album namesake, is a foray into Mexican folk
music with the help of an obscure small-town Mexican funeral
band. The second is Holland, a bedroom electro-synth pop
wonder, originally an idea for Zach s previous incarnation
before Beirut, when he went by the name of Realpeople.
For the past year, Beirut has alternated between touring and
writing new material, Zach recording in any style that struck
his fancy. Some early discussions about doing some soundtrack
recording for a film being shot in Mexico morphed into a new
idea... What about hiring a local Mexican band to help record
some songs based on new material? After finding the band
through a friend s mother, hiring a translator, and catching a
plane down to Oaxaca, Zach made his way out to the tiny weaver
village of Teotitlan del Valle, where he met the nineteen
members of The Jimenez Band.
Combined, these two EPs in the shape of an album represent the
totality of Zach Condon's work over the past year. It is
further testament towards the inventiveness and intimacy he
creates as Beirut, a band which started as one person sounding
like twelve and has developed over the past few years to
distinguish itself with a particular style and sound.
No matter what inspirations jumpstart one song to the next,
the undercurrent that continues to emerge is the realization
that Zach Condon is indeed a singular artist creating his very
own vision of the world s sound. And whether he's being
inspired by Balkan folk, French chanteuse, Mexican troubadour,
'80s synth pop or '90s house, the common thread remains Zach's
ability to make a simple melody sound both artistically unique
and endlessly familiar.
March of the Zapotec marks the continuing emergence of a
musician who has only shown an inkling of where he is headed.
And while the road may be long, every stop along the way is
filled with its own treats.