Beirut (photo Olga Baczynska)
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on February 1st 2019. He has now shared the title track and details of some live dates in 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.
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.”
Beirut 2019 UK Tour Dates:
APRIL 2019
Wed 10 – Albert Hall – Manchester
Thu 11 –Town Hall – Leeds
Fri 12 –Eventim Apollo – London
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