Formats
POMP01CD - 2xCDs
823566487722
Details
After the widely acclaimed 2007 album The Flying Club Cup, which hit many album of the year lists including the NME, Uncut, Q, The Sun and The Telegraph, the extremely talented young songwriter and musician Zach Condon returned with his third record under the guise of Beirut. The full-length album entitled March Of The Zapotec is comprised of two EPs. The first, and album namesake, is a foray into Mexican folk music with the help of an obscure small-town Mexican funeral band. The second is Holland, a bedroom electro-synth pop wonder, originally an idea for Zach's previous incarnation before Beirut, when he went by the name of Realpeople. For the past year, Beirut has alternated between touring and writing new material, Zach recording in any style that struck his fancy. Some early discussions about doing some soundtrack recording for a film being shot in Mexico morphed into a new idea? What about hiring a local Mexican band to help record some songs based on new material? After finding the band through a friend's mother, hiring a translator, and catching a plane down to Oaxaca, Zach made his way out to the tiny weaver village of Teotitlan del Valle, where he met the nineteen members of The Jimenez Band.
Tracks
MARCH OF THE ZAPOTEC (DISC 1)
1 El Zocalo
2 La Llorona
3 My Wife
4 The Akara
5 On A Bayonet
6 The Shrew
REALPEOPLE: HOLLAND (DISC 2)
1 My Night With A Prostitute From Marseille
2 My Wife, Lost in The Wild
3 Venice
4 The Concubine
5 No Dice