LANDSLIDE
January 08, 2019
We're excited to announce the new music video for “Landslide.” The video, starring Game of Thrones’ Ian Beattie, was directed by Eoin Glaister and shot in Kazakhstan.
Gallipoli is out February 1st.
NPR - All Songs Considered
October 22, 2018
"Beirut's Zach Condon is a magpie for sounds, collecting left-behind instruments and equipment from around the world. Condon can't explain what drove him from his hometown in New Mexico or his studio in Berlin to record Beirut's new album, Gallipoli in rural Italy, but he's the first to own up to 'reading too many Tin Tin books' and having a childhood obsession with Indiana Jones. From halfway around the world, Condon, in this conversation, walked All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen through the experience that inspired Gallipoli's title track."
Full article HERE.
New Album Gallipoli Out 2/1/2019
October 18, 2018
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on February 1st 2019.
The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums (2006’s Gulag Orkestar and the following year’s The Flying Club Cup). Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon settled in Sudestudio, a studio complex deep in rural Puglia, southern Italy. It was here that he rediscovered the old joys of music as a visceral experience which became the founding principle for Gallipoli.
Available today, Gallipoli’s title track is a cathartic embrace of old and new. Condon says, “We stumbled into the medieval-fortressed island town of Gallipoli one night and followed a brass band procession fronted by priests carrying a statue of the town’s saint through the winding narrow streets behind what seemed like the entire town. The next day I wrote the song entirely in one sitting, pausing only to eat.” A deeper dive into the origins of Gallipoli, in Condon’s own words, is available HERE.