Beirut Full Concert | 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.
Set List:
No No No - 1:31
Scenic World - 4:54
Elephant Gun - 7:27
As Needed - 12:08
Perth - 15:46
Santa Fe - 20:03
Postcards From Italy - 25:17
August Holland - 29:42
The Rip Tide - 33:49
The Shrew - 38:10
Fener - 42:23
Serbian Cocek - 46:08
At Once - 49:44
After The Curtain - 52:44
So Allowed - 56:27
Pacheco - 1:01:10
Gulag Orkestar - 1:04:16
In The Mausoleum - 1:07:41
Flying Club Cup - 1:11:20
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
I am so unbelievably in awe of these guys. I listen to this performance almost every single day, and it breaks my heart knowing I'll probably never see them perform live.
Beirut its my religion
To many ads abandon ship
first song: who else didn't know that was a TROMBONE?
Can we give some love to Nick Petree? The dude is perfect back there on the kit!
Did he forget the lyrics of Elephant Gun?
How arent they dancing like crazy to serbian cocek? That music was made for dancing
Where is this band been all my life? I came across this by chance. AMAZING! My daughter walked on my and said, you really like this music mom? I tried to explain to her that you hear much music this day but there is litle art in music. So Beirut is pure ART!
Of this video's 1,568,778 views I can guarantee you I have at least 700,000 of them
In Mexico we love'em too....
I come back to this concert and their Tiny Desk concert about two times a year. Massive nostalgia trip every time ❤️
Postcards and Elephant Gun always kill me. MAN they get right into the feelings. What an awesome show it must have been.
I listen to Beirut since 2007 and I can’t believe I just found this today. Such a fantastic recording.
Seeing Beirut in concert is absolutely amazing and I recommend it to anyone who loves them! :D
Utilidade pública: Em especial para os fãs de Beirut do BRASIL
postcards from italy gives me chills every single time i hear it
The drummer looks so into it, it's brilliant
Almost ten years since I first heard it, still my favorite band...
i love the drummer because he is so happy for no particular reason