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Beirut is tagged as: folk, indie, indie folk, singer-songwriter, gypsy

EPS and album of Beirut pronounced (bay-root ") is largely the work of Zach Condon, a young Santa Fe New Mexico native

Condon has played in the past: when he was fifteen and under the name Real People, he made a recording old-fashioned after his love of The Magnetic Fields Condon was a straight-A student until he dropped out at age 16 to travel Europe in a drunken haze cavorting and partying with the locals where he left off, it was during one of those nights that he was first exposed to Balkan music (notably including the Boban Markovic Orkestar) blasting from the upstairs apartment Condon ended with the Serbian artists all night through albums country by country, note for note

The first album under the moniker Beirut Gulag Orkestar (2006)was the direct result of what he had learned that night Although it may sound like an entire Balkan orchestra playing modern songs as melancholy ballads and upbeat Marches the album was performed and recorded almost entirely by Condon alone He did it in Pro Tools While skip school in Albuquerque and at Sea Side Studios in Park Slope Brooklyn Jeremy Barnes added percussion and some violin overlays

After recording Condon formed a full band that at times vary in the number of members from six to ten Live h...
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