Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on Friday 1 February 2019 and today he shares the title track. Listen below.
The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums.
Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon settled in Sudestudio, a studio complex deep in rural Puglia, southern Italy. It was here that he rediscovered the old joys of music as a visceral experience which became the founding principle for Gallipoli.
Gallipoli’s title track is a cathartic embrace of old and new. Condon says, “We stumbled into the medieval-fortressed island town of Gallipoli one night and followed a brass band procession fronted by priests carrying a statue of the town’s saint through the winding narrow streets behind what seemed like the entire town. The next day I wrote the song entirely in one sitting, pausing only to eat.”
Gallipoli is available for pre-order here. A deeper dive into the origins of Gallipoli, in Condon’s own words, is available here.
Listen or purchase ‘Gallipoli’ here.
