Gallipoli- Tour 2019
Beirut will go on tour in Germany in spring 2019 with a new album. In February 2019, Beirut will release his fifth album called "Gallopoli". Beirut plays from his new CD.
Even at the age of 15, Zach Condon recorded his first album. After long travels in Europe, especially in the East, he made a big splash in 2006 with his album Gulag Orkestar: Russian polka mixed with melodic pop plus Eastern European sounds, produced a sound that was unique to date.
On his old Italian brand Farfisa electronic organ, with which he also composed his first two albums G ulag Orkestar (2006) and The Flying Club Cup (2007) , Zach began producing his new album in the winter of 2016.
NAfter a few recording attempts in New York and his adopted home of Berlin, he finally relocated to Sudestudio in southern Italy. There he experimented with his sounds and rediscovered his love for old sounds. This is how the album Gallipoli , named after the Italian town near the studio, was finally born: "We stumbled into the medieval - fortr essed 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 ." (Zach Condor)
Lyrics source and more information about this event: https://www.frankfurter-hof-mainz.de/programm-tickets/details/news/beirut-summer-in-the-city-mainz-2019/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=0f6ef021e4951ceb0b2d5e59918257c2
