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The Flying Club Cup
The Flying Club Cup is the second studio album by Balkan folk influenced band Beirut, originally released on October 9, 2007. Condon said about the name and inspiration for the album: “Back in the early 1900s there used to be this hot air balloon festival in Paris – [the album’s] titled after that and after this very bizarre 1910 photo I found [by Léon Gimpel]. It’s one of the first color photos ever made, at the World’s Fair, and it shows all these ancient hot air balloons about to take off in the middle of Paris. I just thought it was the most surreal image I’d seen in a long time.” He also said about the album sound: “I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music – pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over the top arrangements and all this drama – and that was in some sense unfamiliar territory to me. So I started buying new instruments and relying on things I wasn’t necessarily comfortable with, like French horns and euphoniums, carrying these big, epic big brass parts that I used to do all on trumpets, and working with accordion and organ instead of all ukulele – very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music, I guess you could say.”
Pompeii Records
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Beirut
Gulag Orkestar
The first studio album by the American indie folk band, Beirut, originally released on September 25, 2006. Include digital album download coupon. While it may sound like an entire Balkan gypsy orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut s first album, Gulag Orkestar, is actually the work of 19-year-old Albuquerque native Zach Condon, with an assist from Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw). There are no guitars on this album; instead, horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiel, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions all build and break around Condon s deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken twelve-member carnival band. In 2002 Condon dropped out of school to travel Europe, cavorting and partying with the locals wherever he went. During one of these evenings that he was first exposed to Balkan gypsy music, blasting from an upstairs apartment. Condon went to investigate, and stayed up all night with a Serbian artist, going through albums country by country, note for note. Gulag Orkestar is the direct result of what he learned that night. Condon later headed to Sea Side Studios in Brooklyn s Park Slope where, along with Barnes and A Hawk and a Hacksaw s Heather Trost, he added percussion and violin overdubs to his original compositions. Gulag Orkestar is a glorious sweep of music, striking in its emotional content and stunning in its scope.
Pompeii Records
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Beirut
The Rip Tide
The third studio album by the American indie folk band, Beirut, originally released on August 30, 2011. Include digital album download coupon. Unlike previous Beirut albums, The Rip Tide was more reflective of places closer to home; for example, the song “Santa Fe” was a homage to Condon’s hometown. Condon reflected on this shift in songwriting, saying “The vagabond thing – that was a teenage fantasy that I lived out in a big way. Music, to me, was escapism. And now I’m doing everything that is the opposite [of that] in my life. I’m married. I’ve got a house. I’ve got a dog. So it felt ridiculous, the narrative of what my career was supposed to be, compared to what I was actually trying to attempt in my life.” Condon wrote The Rip Tide while he spent six months in isolation living in a Bethel, New York winter cabin. Unlike Beirut’s previous albums, the music was recorded as a band playing together instead of laying down individual tracks one at a time. However, the lyrics were only added by Condon after all the music had been recorded.
Pompeii Records
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