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Artist:
BEIRUT
Title:
Gulag Orkestar
Label:
BA DA BING!
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
BING 048CD
"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."
Artist:
BEIRUT
Title:
Lon Gisland
Label:
BA DA BING!
Format:
CD
Price:
$6.50
Catalog #:
BING 052CD
"The sleeper hit of 2006, Beirut's
Gulag Orkestar
came out of nowhere to sell tens of thousands of copies in a matter of months and wound up on countless critics' year-end lists. As a stopgap before recording a new full-length in Fall 2007 -- and as a way to capture some current songs being performed at shows -- the eight-member band checked into Sea Side Studios in Brooklyn to record
Lon Gisland
. These are the first studio recordings made by the entire group, and a sampling of the most recent songs by orkestar leader Zach Condon.
Lon Gisland
features four new tunes and a full band reworking of Gulag's 'Scenic World.' The five-song EP was initially released with the European edition of
Gulag Orkestar
(4AD) and as a limited edition, one-sided vinyl 12" by Chouette. The Ba Da Bing edition is in a highly collectible digipak format."
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