Latest Release
- 10 NOV 2023
- 12 Songs
- Elephant Gun - Single · 2006
- The Flying Club Cup · 2007
- The Rip Tide · 2011
- No No No · 2015
- No No No · 2015
- March of the Zapotec and Real People Holland · 2009
- Artifacts · 2022
- The Rip Tide · 2011
- Elephant Gun - Single · 2007
- Gallipoli · 2019
Albums
- 2023
- 2022
- 2019
- 2015
- 2011
- 2007
- 2019
- 2019
- 2015
- 2015
- 2009
- 2009
Singles & EPs
- 2011
- 2007
- 2006
Appears On
- Efterklang
About Beirut
Beirut’s Zach Condon started making lo-fi synthesizer recordings as a teenager, inspired by The Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, and Neutral Milk Hotel. ∙ After dropping out of his New Mexico high school to travel around Europe, Condon became fascinated with Balkan brass music. ∙ He enlisted former Neutral Milk Hotel accordion player/percussionist Jeremy Barnes as his chief collaborator for Beirut’s debut album, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar. ∙ Condon says that he named the band after Lebanon’s capital city because “it’s seen a lot of conflict” and “it’s a place where things collide.” ∙ The band’s second album, The Flying Club Cup, draws upon Condon’s interest in French music and culture and was partly recorded at Arcade Fire’s Quebec studio. ∙ In addition to singing, Condon plays trumpet, ukulele, keyboards, accordion, synthesizers, flugelhorn, and French horn. ∙ He recorded 2019’s Gallipoli in Italy—having written the title song there—as well as in New York City, and his adopted home of Berlin.
- ORIGIN
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- FORMED
- 2006
- GENRE
- Alternative