Beirut - Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg [mp3-vbr-2009]

1. East Harlem

2. The Shrew

3. The Concubine

4. Mimizan

5. La Javanaise

6. The Akara

7. Cozak

8. My Night With the Prostitute from Marseille

9. Gulag Orkestar

10. Forks and Knives (La Fête)

11. Brazil





Artist: Beirut

Title: Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Store Date: 1 apr 2009

Upload Date: 23 jun 2009

Label: Baeble Media LLC

Genre: Folk/Alternative

Cover: front

Bitrate: vbr kb/s (up 214 kbps), joint stereo





Zach Condon would choose to begin Beirut’s set with a simple Good evening everyone, diving immediately into the set, to the rapturous applause of the hundreds in attendance. Using an impressive variety of instrumentation (stand-up bass, accordion, trumpet, trombone, french horn, euphonium, and Condon’s signature ukulele), the band played a batch of tunes that appropriately ushered the audience to a variety of places around the world. Gulag Orkestar sparked a quick trip to the Balkans. During The Shrew, a song from Beirut’s brand new EP March of the Zapotec, Mexico became the destination of choice. They also dabbled in a track called My Night With a Prostitute from Marseille; this one from Zach Condon’s Realpeoples Holland EP.

They ended the show with a cover of a dancy old Brazilian song, written by Ary Barroso called Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolor of Brazil); a lighthearted way to send the happy crowd off into the cold streets of Brooklyn indeed.