Postcards from Italy
Track four on Gulag Orkestar, written by Zach Condon and recorded in Albuquerque in 2005.
Beirut, from Gulag Orkestar (2006)
- Written by
- Zach Condon
- Released
- 2006
- Length
- 4:17
- Album
- Gulag Orkestar
Condon wrote it, and it is listed as a 2006 single. It was recorded in 2005 in Albuquerque, mostly by Condon alone, with Barnes and Trost. A video was directed by Alma Har'el, according to a search summary of Magnet Magazine that was not read directly. Condon has given no statement on its meaning that was found; NPR notes that he named many songs after cities he had never seen. Fan interpretations exist but are not given here.
It has been played at Terminal 5 in New York on September 22, 2011, at Rumsey Playfield on August 29, 2012, as the seventh song at Radio City Music Hall on October 1, 2015, and at Tollwood Festival in Munich on July 10, 2016. No chart history, covers or samples were found, and nothing identifies our upload as other than the album version.
On stage
- 2015-10-01, Radio City Music Hall, New York Seventh song of the set.
Where to go next
Live performance archives
- JamBase: Beirut at Radio City Music Hall The 2015 setlist.
Sources
- Gulag Orkestar, Wikipedia
- Beirut at Radio City Music Hall, JamBase (2015-10-01)