News Posted October 22, 2018 Posted October 22, 2018 Zach Condon has announced a new Beirut album. Titled Gallipoli, it’s due for arrival February 1st through 4AD. The follow-up to No No No marks Beirut’s first album in three years and fifth overall. Work on the 12-track effort began back in Winter 2016 and saw Condon convene recording sessions all across the globe, including in New York City, Puglia, Italy, and Berlin, where Condon now resides. The indie folk songwriter reunited with No No No producer Gabe Wax, as well as made use of his longtime Farfisa organ, which fans might recall from his first two Beirut records, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar and the following year’s The Flying Club Cup. (Read: The Top 50 Albums of 2007) As a preview of the new album, Condon has revealed the title track. Its name is taken from the Italian town where Condon wrote the song. In a press release, he described how it came together: The next day I wrote the song I ended up calling ‘Gallipoli’ entirely in one sitting, pausing only to eat. I eventually dragged Nick and Paul in to add some percussion and bass around midnight after a trance-like ten hours of writing and playing. I was quite pleased with the result. It felt to me like a cathartic mix of all the old and new records and seemed to return me to the old joys of music as a visceral experience. This seemed to be the guiding logic behind much of the album, of which I only realized fully at that point. We spent the rest of the month in the studio in Italy, eventually finishing the bulk of the album by November [2017]. Take a listen below. In a longer statement, Condon further discussed how he — once a resident of Sante Fe and New York City — came to find himself recording in Europe (it involved a skating accident and some broken bones), and how it influenced the birth of Gallipoli. Read it in full here. Gallipoli Artwork: Gallipoli Tracklist: 01. When I Die 02. Gallipoli 03. Varieties of Exile 04. On Mainau Island 05. I Giardini 06. Gauze fur Zah 07. Corfu 08. Landslide 09. Family Curse 10. Light in the Atoll 11. We Never Lived Here 12. Fin In support of the forthcoming LP, Condon has announced 2019 Beirut tour dates across North America and Europe. Beirut 2019 Tour Dates: 02/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 02/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 02/12 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 02/14 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem 02/15 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre 02/16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 02/18 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS 02/19 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre 02/21 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre 02/22 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre 02/23 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre 02/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre 02/17 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 02/28 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 03/02 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 03/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 03/30 – Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus 03/31 – Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus 04/02 – Brussels, BE @ Forest National 04/05 – Paris, FR @ Le Grand Rex 04/06 – Cologne, DE @ Palladium 04/08 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg 04/10 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 04/11 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Town Hall 04/12 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo 04/15 – Munich, DE @ Zenith 04/18 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz 04/19 – Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus Source Quote
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