Beirut – Gallipoli (Album Download)
Beirut shares a brand new studio album titled “Gallipoli” with 12 songs. 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.
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].
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
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