Beirut: Postcards From Italy | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2015
- How does a band return from a recording hiatus that could have permanently displaced it from the audience's eye? If you are Zach Condon and Beirut, you just go about your business and pick up where you left off three years earlier. The group's First Listen Live show at Brooklyn's intimate Bell House on a rainy September night, a concert debuting many of the songs from the brand new No No No, its first album since 2011, showed that Beirut works through its obstacles. Maybe it helps when the initial idea behind a band is ahead of the curve to begin with, no?
When Condon's Beirut first came to prominence in 2006, it emerged from Santa Fe with a fully conceived, pan-global folk sound unlike any indie sensibilities popular on the day. Zach's trumpet and flugelhorn playing was informed by local Mexican mariachi horns, his engagement with the Roma brass bands of the Balkans, and modal jazz changes via a percolating bossa nova; he favored timeless instruments (ukuleles, accordions) and images, to the rush of the modern; and the songs his quavering tenor delivered, also traveled the old continents. Live, the group grew into a formidable sextet, heavy on keyboards, horns and harmony, a world onto themselves.
At the Bell House, Beirut ran down its entire career before a sold-out audience, and the songs from No No No, the band's fourth studio, fit snuggly alongside the older material, even as it heralded directions new and familiar. "Perth," for instance, featured a touch of the Memphis soul energy, with Ben Lanz's trombone adding a brassy bump; "Fener," a song about a neighborhood in Istanbul, is built around the motorik beat interplay between Aaron Arntz's keyboards and Nick Petree's drums, before dropping down into a great g-funk slink, guided by Condon's Moog. So seemingly apart from Beirut's musical environment, yet, here they were, a natural part of it, making the audience sway endlessly. The hiatus, it seems, simply made full hearts grow fonder. -- PIOTR ORLOV
Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Producer: Saidah Blount; Videographers: Mito Habe-Evans, Lani Milton, Christopher Farber, A.J. Wilhelm; Audio Engineers: Josh Rogosin; Special Thanks: The Bell House; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann - Hudba
The second voice after the the trombone/trumpet part gives a whole new dimension to this song.
Agree
Omg that voice fit so goodddddd
YES!!! Who is this guy? I want to listen more!
@@flaviabv That would be Kyle Resnick
He was leveraged really well in this set.
There was a time this song made me cry. Now it fills me with hope and joy. Masterpiece.
😀👍
This show needs to be released. Best version of Postcards.
i dont think so, they go to fast bpm the song is more slow
Exactly too fast. A habit when youre nervousyou to rush the song the band kept up like pros though.._ except the back up vocals
As an Italian woman, I must say that this masterpiece makes me think of my childhood, my present and my future in my Italy...nostalgia and melancholia at their very best. I know that this song is so much more than Italy but I have to say that they captured the feeling I have whenever I think of home
While i am glad this song reminds you of home - even if in melancholic tones....this song is explicitly about Italian fascism and decries the exclusivist nature of nationalism from the eyes of an immigrant, or perhaps only a visitor. To be certain, this song is anti-Italian.
@@deweynumbers2145 My bad, this time I did not look at the story behind the song and I didn't catch the references to Fascism in the lyrics, even though we always study our history at school. Thank you for having told me. Still, I can't deny the feeling I get when listening to it, artists know that people draw from their works whatever they want, after all :)
@@deweynumbers2145 Is there any interview where they talk about this? Thank you in advance
That's so beautiful of you saying, I hope they seen this. I remember when it was released. We jammed this many times. Our bar owner always supported the bass player since we were kids
@deweynumbers2145 can you please elaborate? I never thought about it and to be honest still cannot see it that way in-between the lyrics
this brass kills me every time
My god, that was powerful. These guys are amazing.
The most beautiful horn segment ever. This song always makes me cry. And I don't know why? lol happy cries
Beirut's underrated, there are only about a million people that really like this group
A million and one.
The girl with the yellow glasses in the front row…that's me every time I listen to this masterpiece :)
The girl with the yellow glasses at 3:19 is just priceless...
Thank you,NPR,you guys are the best. Been listening for decades and have never been let down by your forward thinking and excellent programming. Exist Forever.
Damn, the drummer having serious fun out there
One of the most beautiful things Ive ever heard
I'm glad to see Zach again, it feels like a new band though, not quite the happy go lucky kids in 2007
+Logan Halleran Yeah, I recently saw them live and I dont think he smiled once...it was sort of sad actually...
+Logan Halleran I mean, a good show, but he just didnt seem happy.
incredible show ! Amazing group !
All those happy smiling faces. Wonderful track
Caraaa tinha que ter a opção amei aki tbm neh, parabéns pelo trabalho maravilhoso.. 💙🙏
100 views are mine, at least.
That's the trumpet man from The National, isn't it? Gosh, this song will always remind me of the one that got away.
César E. Ambriz Aguilar i think it is! I remember him from the Tiny Desk video. Nicely spotted. Great band.
@@freakfire74 Exactly! That's him! Great to know he can shine with other amazing music projects as well.
That's him yeah, his name is Kyle Resnick. Doesn't do solo projects as far as I know
April 2021 and still loving it❤️
July 2022 and i’m here again❤️
One of the best songs I've ever heard. Wunderbar!
Muito bom parabéns pessoal e obrigado pela essa bela música...
I feel like a version in French would make my life complete
Delightful music, I have no words...
Você é incrível!
Cadê os brasileiros que estão procurando a beleza nas músicas do Beirut para desviar a tristeza que é o Brasil na atualidade, neste triste início de 2021?
O/
seguindo triste mas embreagado com as sensações que essas canções causam.
Cheguei aqui rs
Cristiano, Fortaleza CE, Brazil.
E, 7 meses depois, ainda assisto como se fosse a primeira vez! Som maravilhoso!
Class,,, i love this song❤
Perfeição. 🌷😌
Peace, Love, Unity and Respect! #44
Very nice live version! I do feel like they were a bit in a hurry though... xD
Loved
Meu coração queima.
Lindo demais
Favorite live version
bar none, my favorite song of all time
greater than great ❤️❤️
Amo ❤️
Bella 😘
Hypnotisant
Whouaaaaaaaaah 🥺😍🤩😍😍😍😍😍
pure love
brillant
Que musica boa do carilho
Si mamita
베이루트!! 한국에 또 내한해주세요!!
Una delicia de canción
Bequtiful ❤️
Here because of the Florence and the machine cover 💕
😍
Lindo! Magnífico!
Minha banda preferida.
Bárbaro Bárbara!
❤❤❤❤
Love these guys. Glad to see people are still listening
How can i find this song at spotify? Great music. When the second voice start is awesome
Beirut- Postcards From Italy
Bayıldım ya
God I love this song, from 1:56 on repeat.
♥️🇧🇷
Bella 😚
♥️♥️♥️🥁🎹🎸🎺🎺🗣🎶
2020?
yes
2021
2022
2023
what I would give to learn that strumming pattern at 1:57
Vou agir ao meu modo
November 2020
Faz a alma dançar
Love that lady in the front row with the yellow glasses :)
Alguém ouvindo em fevereiro de 2021?
Março serve? Hahaha
@@alanguedes7658 hahahaha
ugh, those yellow glasses..
They are kinda awesome
What's the name of the song at the end of the video?
I think it is "no no no"
Yup, that's some kind of alternate version of "No no no".
❤