Beirut
 

Hey you. You should check out beirut (with a lowercase 'b').

http://www.myspace.com/beruit

Beyond amazing, as evident with his instrumentation. I've been looking for this kind of sound for a while, and I'm happy to have stumbled upon this guy. According to his lastfm profile, he's only 19 and recorded Gulag Orkestar at home.

(Sorry I didn't put this in the folk forum, but I figured it'd get more attention - if any- here)

so is it beirut or beruit?

That was enjoyable. He has great musicianship.

great music...must download album....

downloaded the album...it's beautiful...i can't, no, i REFUSE to believe this guy is 19 and recorded it himself....
it reminds me of Goran Bregovic's Orchestra for weddings and funerals, the whole gypsy sad trumpet thing...
it was always obvious hat balkan gypsy music was very special ( ever since i saw Kusturica's "Time of the gypsies" that was before he went all wacko chetnik on our asses ), but what bothered me were the gypsy vocals that gave it that nasty balkan spin....this was the combo i've been waiting for, a blend of american folk vocals and the gypsy trumpets and violins...

aww yeah i like it too

i'm addicted....this is one of the best albums i've heard this year...thanks leroy...:)

Amen. But, I would like to see a birth certificate to verify his age.

i've actually been spreading the word on every possible forum i'm on....got a few new fans too!! amazing....( but he did NOT record all of this himself...nope...not gonna believe it....)
i think by the next week i'll have him on top of my last.fm list...it's incredibly addictive....heartbreakingly beautiful....

Did anyone else notice that the song 'Postcards From Italy' is the EXACT same riff as 'I Want You' by Bob Dylan?

if you like beirut you should check out Sunset Rubdown

( have nothing to do with each other apart from the fact that they're doing some gigs together )

Gulag Orkestar is teh roxorz!!!!!eleven!!!!one!! Yea, I just got it. Pure amazing.

I'm seeing them next month. :)

just downloaded Gulag Orkstar a few days ago.. awesome stuff.

The new EP, called "Lon Gisland" is out!! One free track on this webpage

I dislike them. They seem to rip-off Neutral Milk Hotel, minus the amazing lyrics.. I would probably like them if there was a more-competent lyricist. But anybody can mimic an eastern-European style and spoon-feed it to scenesters. Haha.

Wow did you copy/paste that from pitchfork?

No, do they dislike him, too?

It sounds like their kind of response and I think that may be where I heard that comment before. I have heard it somewhere. I don't really hear the compairison to NMH though.

well, i'd hit it, y0
http://myspace-294.vo.llnwd.net/0113...38749294_l.jpg

beirut @ bonnaroo!! wooooooo

The first song on the new EP is great. So's most of Gulag Orkestar.

Lon Gisland is amazing, so is Gulag Orkestar. Pompeii and Small Time American Bats, not so much. But it shows how his musicianship developed over the years.

So, new French pop record, eh?

What?

Sorry, I'm out of the loop.

Zach has said that he has been listening to lots of French pop (the old one, not the horrible new commercial one), and has said that it inspired the new upcoming album. It has not title as of yet, but once was titled The Flying Club Cup. The Flying Club Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think Zach will become the European Sufjan Stevens soon enough.

But...he's not european....

Yes, but he knows more European culture than most. And what I meant by European Sufjan Stevens was that he would put out albums inspired by European places/events/history/etc., just like Sufjan did with 2 states. (plz plz, let it be Oregon...)

Why Oregon?

Sufjan quit doing the states thing.

He better not.

Wait nvm, hes doing Oregon or Rhode Island next, and possibly Minnesota soon. His state songs are kind of lame because for the most part their very loosely tied to that state and could just as easily be related to another, but I guess thats the only way you can pull it off.

Yes, let's hope he uses some good ol' psychadelia with orchestrated strings or piano ballads. =D

It's Beirut.

And yes, he's awesome.

You're actually answering a question posed on 05-20-2006?

It's cool. Just a continuation of Gulag, really.

is he Lebanese? Beirut is a place in Lebanon I believe.

No, he's not.

nantes is an awesome song.

I'm just getting into him now. I really can't believe he's so young. He sounds like he's got a million years of experience in his music.

Elephant Gun is the song I'm digging at the moment. I think it's pretty uplifting (and not what I'd usually look for when I'm feeling great... I tend to go for Girls Aloud and the like when I need something that fits).