Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
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Artist: BeirutEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Soundtracks:
- Gulag Orkestar
- Prenzlauerberg
- Brandenburg
- Postcards from Italy
- Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
- Rhineland (Heartland)
- Scenic World
- Bratislava
- Bunker
- Canals of Our City
- After the Curtain
Free Music Notes for Gulag Orkestar
Free Music Review: Best new music I've heard in a long time
Hit: 5 Stars
I had been getting pretty bummed out lately about not being able to find much, what I would call, "amazing" new music. I found a lot of stuff that was, "pretty good" and, "not bad" but nothing really knocked me out like some music had in the best. Then this little delight came along. This album is not some lame and failed attempt to merge old sounds with new. No sir, this is old plus new equals something totally unique and amazing. If you in anyway like the sad and beautiful sounds of old eastern European gypsy accordion horn melodic madness, and enjoy Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, or any of those types, then you probably already own this CD. If for some reason you don't already have this, then stray no farther, come back and be fed. Genius.
Gulag Orkestar Poster
While it may sound like an entire Balkan gypsy orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut's first album, Gulag Orkestar, is largely the work of one 19-year-old Albuquerque native, Zach Condon, with assistance by Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw). Horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions (no guitars on this album!) all build and break the melodies under Condon's deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken 12-member ensemble that has fallen in love with The Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads and Neutral Milk Hotel.Special two CD reissue on the 4AD label of this critically-adored release featuring a bonus disc with five tracks: 'Elephant Gun', 'My Family's Role In The World Revolution', 'Scenic World' (Version), 'Long Island Sound' and 'Carousels'. Beirut's debut album `Gulag Orkestar' swirls and swayswith a procession of horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins,glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinetsand accordions, a wonderfully brash, drunken sound which whirlsaround Zach's histrionic and bewitchingly plaintive vocals. From thelush trumpet, rhythmically plucked ukulele and somersaulting,emotive croon of `Postcards From Italy', through to the bustlingghetto sound of `Bratislava'. `Gulag Orkestar' is abrave and passionate global m?lange full of energy, beauty andmystery. 'Beautiful and disarming'-Pitchfork, 'Precocious, other-worldly and vividly ambitious'-Drowned In Sound, 'This is serious music for serious listeners'-Billboard. 4AD. 2006.
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