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While it may sound like an entire Balkan orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut’s first album, the startling Gulag Orkestar, was largely the work of one 19-year-old Albuquerque native, Zach Condon, and was almost completely recorded at home. Horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions (no guitars!) all build and break the melodies under Condon’s deep-voiced... More
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- European Tour Cancelled03 April 08
- On the BBC Culture Show24 January 08
- On "Later... With Jools Holland"14 December 07
- Announce Rough Trade In-Store Gig11 October 07
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