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Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland
- What do you get when you combine a 23-year-old community college dropout with a host of multitalented and eclectic musicians? The answer is Beirut. Zachary Condon is the leader in a group of horns, accordion, violin, ukulele, and mandolin amid other instruments creating a truly unique Eastern European, and sometimes nostalgic 1920s jazz sound. Condon helps the music to become westernized by singing many songs in English, yet his refined tenor voice is nearly unmatchable to any other young vocalist of his age. Beirut’s latest offering, titled “March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland,” is more broad than the band's previous efforts, in listening one can really visualize the tremendous effort of the usual eight to eleven musicians, and is nearly as comfortable as listening to a college band in earnest performance.
Condon developed his love for the exotic while traveling abroad in France, where he got a taste of Balkan folk music, and subsequently began to love the loose rhythms and swaying mix of high and low horns. Despite this type of music being practically obscure in mainstream American music, Beirut has proven to be quite lovable on the indie scene, however “dated” the band's style of music may seem.
Reviewer: Gina Ferrara
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Added: 2-Aug-2009
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