Beirut, or indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, has shared the cautiously hopeful “The Tern,” the latest single from his upcoming album Hadsel.
“The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon said of the track in a statement.
“The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end...
“The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon said of the track in a statement.
“The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end...
- 10/11/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Beirut is back with “The Tern,” a new look at his upcoming album Hadsel. Listen to the track below.
Thanks to a buzzing synth line and Zach Condon’s operatic vocals, “The Tern” feels like a new age hymn of sorts. The artist explained how he wrote the song in a statement, from its electronic instrumental to its “It’s not so easy” refrain.
“The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon shared. “The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end I was confused how I had written such a seemingly positive and even hopeful song, but once I took a closer look at the lyrics,...
Thanks to a buzzing synth line and Zach Condon’s operatic vocals, “The Tern” feels like a new age hymn of sorts. The artist explained how he wrote the song in a statement, from its electronic instrumental to its “It’s not so easy” refrain.
“The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon shared. “The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end I was confused how I had written such a seemingly positive and even hopeful song, but once I took a closer look at the lyrics,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Beirut, the nom de plume of indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, travels to remote Norway and returns with Hadsel, his first new album in four years.
The LP, due out Nov. 10 via Beirut’s own Pompeii Records, was inspired by Condon’s sojourn to the titular Norwegian island where he escaped to after persistent throat issues forced him to cancel his 2019 tour. Ensconced in a Hadsel cabin and given access to a nearby church organ, Condon went to work on what would become his first LP since 2019’s Gallipoli.
“During my time in Hadsel,...
The LP, due out Nov. 10 via Beirut’s own Pompeii Records, was inspired by Condon’s sojourn to the titular Norwegian island where he escaped to after persistent throat issues forced him to cancel his 2019 tour. Ensconced in a Hadsel cabin and given access to a nearby church organ, Condon went to work on what would become his first LP since 2019’s Gallipoli.
“During my time in Hadsel,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Zach Condon is back with Hadsel, his first album as Beirut since 2019. The record arrives November 10th via Condon’s label Pompeii Records, and lead single “So Many Plans” is out now.
In true Beirut fashion, Hadsel is named after a place that particularly inspired Condon. The artist traveled to the northern Norway island in early 2020, after a bout of acute laryngitis forced him to cancel Beiruit’s tour in support of Gallipoli and before Covid-19 shut the world down. During his retreat, Condon wrote on an old Hadselkirke, the first church organ the multi-instrumentalist ever played. In a statement, he described this time as especially therapeutic.
“During my time in Hadsel, I worked hard on the music, lost in a trance and stumbling blindly through my own mental collapse that I had been pushing aside since I was a teenager,” Condon said. “It came and rang me like a bell.
In true Beirut fashion, Hadsel is named after a place that particularly inspired Condon. The artist traveled to the northern Norway island in early 2020, after a bout of acute laryngitis forced him to cancel Beiruit’s tour in support of Gallipoli and before Covid-19 shut the world down. During his retreat, Condon wrote on an old Hadselkirke, the first church organ the multi-instrumentalist ever played. In a statement, he described this time as especially therapeutic.
“During my time in Hadsel, I worked hard on the music, lost in a trance and stumbling blindly through my own mental collapse that I had been pushing aside since I was a teenager,” Condon said. “It came and rang me like a bell.
- 8/30/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Sharon Van Etten has dug up a previously unreleased music video for her classic song, “Serpents,” off her 2012 album, Tramp, which will get a special anniversary reissue this year.
The video for “Serpents” was directed by Galazie 500’s Naomi Yang. It begins with Van Etten singing the song against a white brick wall, though the space is soon filled with an entrancing light display that adds a moody, slightly surreal tinge to the clip.
In a statement, Van Etten recalled why she chose not to release the “Serpents” clip back when it was made.
The video for “Serpents” was directed by Galazie 500’s Naomi Yang. It begins with Van Etten singing the song against a white brick wall, though the space is soon filled with an entrancing light display that adds a moody, slightly surreal tinge to the clip.
In a statement, Van Etten recalled why she chose not to release the “Serpents” clip back when it was made.
- 2/7/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The members of Beirut unite for a series of therapeutic group experiments in their intense “When I Die” video.
Multimedia artist Brody Condon directed the clip inside a Berlin Futuro house, guiding the musicians through meditative scenarios. They move around the floor in dramatic poses, sprawl out on their backs and lay their hands on each other — culminating in a scene with songwriter Zach Condon collapsing under their collective weight.
“After the psychosomatic session that inspired the [cover art for Beirut’s recently issued LP, Gallipoli], I ran another session with Zach to guide a new video for ‘When I Die,...
Multimedia artist Brody Condon directed the clip inside a Berlin Futuro house, guiding the musicians through meditative scenarios. They move around the floor in dramatic poses, sprawl out on their backs and lay their hands on each other — culminating in a scene with songwriter Zach Condon collapsing under their collective weight.
“After the psychosomatic session that inspired the [cover art for Beirut’s recently issued LP, Gallipoli], I ran another session with Zach to guide a new video for ‘When I Die,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Beirut brought a taste of their new album, Gallipoli, to the Late Show on Thursday, performing the LP’s title track. The exotic song is named for the Italian city it was written in, while musically, the band returns to its horns-laden roots.
Their performance tapped into that original sound, with singer Zach Condon leading a trio of horns players over a jolly, pulsating organ and percussion tune. The result is an indie-fanfare sound that resembles both the band’s original music, as well as the rural Italian town the new work was conceptualized in.
Their performance tapped into that original sound, with singer Zach Condon leading a trio of horns players over a jolly, pulsating organ and percussion tune. The result is an indie-fanfare sound that resembles both the band’s original music, as well as the rural Italian town the new work was conceptualized in.
- 2/8/2019
- by Brandon Kahn
- Rollingstone.com
Beirut music sounds like the fuzzy memory of a wedding involving distant relatives, where you were swept up in folk dances and traditional drinking games, and which left you, through your hangover haze, convinced that these kin live richer, more soulful lives than your own — and if you could just hold on to something of the experience, it might, y’know, change you, make you better, less anxious, happier. It’s tremendously beautiful music, and profoundly sad, but also full of hope, because sad beauty can do that.
The group revolves around Zach Condon,...
The group revolves around Zach Condon,...
- 2/3/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Former Game of Throne‘s star Ian Beattie just can’t win in Beirut’s humorous new video for “Landslide.” The song will appear on Zach Condon and his group’s forthcoming fifth studio album, Gallipoli.
In the Eoin Glaister-directed clip, which was shot in Kazakhstan, Beattie’s character embodies the song’s resilient outlook, which juxtaposes the defeating feelings of a landslide while declaring “I can’t hold on” against uplifting harmonies and Condon’s plucky Farfisa organ melodies.
The new visual opens on an armored Beattie being dragged by a horse,...
In the Eoin Glaister-directed clip, which was shot in Kazakhstan, Beattie’s character embodies the song’s resilient outlook, which juxtaposes the defeating feelings of a landslide while declaring “I can’t hold on” against uplifting harmonies and Condon’s plucky Farfisa organ melodies.
The new visual opens on an armored Beattie being dragged by a horse,...
- 1/10/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Zach Condon previewed his upcoming fifth Beirut LP, Gallipoli, with the record’s beaming, brassy title-track. The single finds the songwriter crooning through a fuzz effect over a swirl of stately trumpets, spacey Farfisa organ and throbbing percussion.
In a statement, Condon detailed the song’s visual inspiration and quick conception in rural Southern Italy. “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,...
In a statement, Condon detailed the song’s visual inspiration and quick conception in rural Southern Italy. “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,...
- 10/22/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
This is part 4 of 4 of our "My Coachella" Series. Click here for profiles on our favorite Coachella bands.
To most, Beirut is the capital and largest city in Lebanon. But if you Google it, the indie-rock-world-music group by the same name pops up first. Lead by Santa Fe native Zach Condon, Beirut is one of the most interesting-sounding bands out there. Listening to an album is like taking a trip around the world, but it's the kind of trip where you duck into alleyway cafes and eat street food under umbrellas.
Condon, who has an unforgettable voice and rocks hard on the trumpet, dropped out of high school as a teenager and traveled to Europe with music on his mind. After dropping out of four colleges, Condon gave it up for good and pursued a musical calling that has now turned into Beirut.
He found a blast of success very young,...
To most, Beirut is the capital and largest city in Lebanon. But if you Google it, the indie-rock-world-music group by the same name pops up first. Lead by Santa Fe native Zach Condon, Beirut is one of the most interesting-sounding bands out there. Listening to an album is like taking a trip around the world, but it's the kind of trip where you duck into alleyway cafes and eat street food under umbrellas.
Condon, who has an unforgettable voice and rocks hard on the trumpet, dropped out of high school as a teenager and traveled to Europe with music on his mind. After dropping out of four colleges, Condon gave it up for good and pursued a musical calling that has now turned into Beirut.
He found a blast of success very young,...
- 4/15/2012
- by Sasha Bronner
- Huffington Post
Cary Fukunaga is one of the most exciting directing talents to come along in the last few years. The 34-year-old filmmaker made a storming debut at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival with the gripping immigration thriller "Sin Nombre," and then took a severe left turn last year with the costume drama "Jane Eyre," which managed to make a much-adapted tale feel genuinely fresh, as well as demonstrating the young director's impressive versatility.
And his dance card shows he refuses to pegged into any one genre. Among the many projects he's had in development are: an untitled time-travel drama at Universal; a long-developing adaptation of the African child soldier novel "Beasts of No Nation"; a musical with Beirut frontman Zach Condon and Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire strings supremo Owen Pallett; and most recently, the Gore Verbinski-produced sci-fi thriller "Spaceless." He was even briefly courted for "The Wolverine" after Darren Aronofsky dropped out of the superhero pic.
And his dance card shows he refuses to pegged into any one genre. Among the many projects he's had in development are: an untitled time-travel drama at Universal; a long-developing adaptation of the African child soldier novel "Beasts of No Nation"; a musical with Beirut frontman Zach Condon and Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire strings supremo Owen Pallett; and most recently, the Gore Verbinski-produced sci-fi thriller "Spaceless." He was even briefly courted for "The Wolverine" after Darren Aronofsky dropped out of the superhero pic.
- 3/12/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
We chat to director Cary Fukunaga about adapting a 150 year old story, casting Michael Fassbender, and his upcoming projects…
Cary Fukunaga’s bleakly beautiful Jane Eyre sits comfortably amongst the best cinematic adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, and features an outstanding lead performance from Mia Wasikowska. Only its director’s second feature (the first being 2009 Spanish-language immigration drama Sin Nombre), Jane Eyre is now out on DVD in the UK.
We spoke to the film’s young director Cary Fukunaga, about how he avoided making a “cheeseball” glossy period drama, Michael Fassbender’s teeth, his upcoming sci-fi and Us Civil War projects, and why he wants to fit a horse with rubber shoes…
This interview contains potential spoilers for Jane Eyre.
You had to cut a lot from the story so you could make the film, can you please make my day by telling me that there’s going...
Cary Fukunaga’s bleakly beautiful Jane Eyre sits comfortably amongst the best cinematic adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, and features an outstanding lead performance from Mia Wasikowska. Only its director’s second feature (the first being 2009 Spanish-language immigration drama Sin Nombre), Jane Eyre is now out on DVD in the UK.
We spoke to the film’s young director Cary Fukunaga, about how he avoided making a “cheeseball” glossy period drama, Michael Fassbender’s teeth, his upcoming sci-fi and Us Civil War projects, and why he wants to fit a horse with rubber shoes…
This interview contains potential spoilers for Jane Eyre.
You had to cut a lot from the story so you could make the film, can you please make my day by telling me that there’s going...
- 3/9/2012
- Den of Geek
To work on the soundtrack for Bombay Beach I went to spend a week with Zach in New Mexico.
This is one of the beautiful moments that week when we went to his childhood room at his parents house in Santa Fe.
Zach Condon. Bombay Beach from Alma Har’el on Vimeo.
In the evening after we drove back to Albuquerque Zach showed me this video for James Blake’s cover of the Feist song “Limit to your Love.”
It’s one of my favorite songs now, can’t get enough of James Blake… and the video was directed by the one and only Martin Du Thurah.
James Blake – Limit To Your Love from James Blake on Vimeo.
This is one of the beautiful moments that week when we went to his childhood room at his parents house in Santa Fe.
Zach Condon. Bombay Beach from Alma Har’el on Vimeo.
In the evening after we drove back to Albuquerque Zach showed me this video for James Blake’s cover of the Feist song “Limit to your Love.”
It’s one of my favorite songs now, can’t get enough of James Blake… and the video was directed by the one and only Martin Du Thurah.
James Blake – Limit To Your Love from James Blake on Vimeo.
- 10/15/2011
- by Alma Har'el
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If you are a reader of our “25 New Faces” series, then you know that I am a huge fan of Alma Har’el and her debut feature Bombay Beach. I think she’s one of this year’s real discoveries, and the film I find inspiring and beautiful. Bombay Beach arrives in New York for a week run at the IFC Center beginning Friday, and I’ll be doing a Q&A with Alma at the 8:20 show on opening night. Before that, you’ll be hearing a lot more about the film on the site. I’ll post an interview with Alma in the next day or two, and she’ll be posting to the blog later in the week. In the meantime, though, here’s my “25 New Face” write-up.
L.A.-based Alma Har’el was making a Beirut music video with the band’s Zach Condon at...
L.A.-based Alma Har’el was making a Beirut music video with the band’s Zach Condon at...
- 10/12/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Quick! Here's your chance to see Bombay Beach, one of our favorite films from the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and win a free copy of the Beirut's new album, "The Rip Tide." This year's winner for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bombay Beach is first-time director Alma Har'el's poetic and madly inventive masterpiece. The dreamlike movie tells the tale of three protagonists: Barry Parrish, an imaginative young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder; CeeJay Thompson, an African-American lovelorn high school football star; and Red, a once oil field worker, now poet-prophet living on the fumes of whiskey and cigarettes. Zach Condon, of the band Beirut, wrote the unforgettable soundtrack, which captures the surreal and spiritual mood of the film (and includes some Bob Dylan tracks). The music, interlaced in Har'el's lyrical story, results in a poetic tale where personal stories are shown through observational documentary and choreographed dance. The...
- 10/7/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
If you want a little flavor of things to come from Beirut, look West, to “Bombay Beach.” The film, titled after the California community of the same name, features new and old music from Beirut mastermind Zach Condon. Prior this full-length feature, the movie’s director Alma Har’el helmed several music videos, including a trio for Beirut. “Bombay Beach” is a gem of a documentary, interspersed with choreographed dance number set to music – a hybrid, really, which is also an apt descriptor for the music of Beirut. Ever since Condon burst independently onto the scene in 2006, he’s combined elements...
- 5/4/2011
- Hitfix
We might be closing in on the musical for people who don't like musicals (which will do until we find an outright cure for their curious condition). Over the last couple of years, Sin Nombre director Cary Funkunaga has been working on "a musical or an opera of some kind" with Zach Condon and Owen Pallett. Condon is a member of the band Beirut and was a contender to score Sin Nombre, while Pallett is a member of the amazingly named Owen Pallett (okay, they used to be called Final Fantasy, so I get the need for a name change) and has also been one of the many members of Arcade Fire. Pallett has also written music for John Cameron Mitchell's upcoming Rabbit Hole. Pallett and Condon have already made music together, but I don't know it - critiques in the comments would be welcome. Fukunaga has now revealed...
- 3/6/2010
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
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