
Artifacts
Regular price $31.00 Sale price $26.00 Save $5.00Double vinyl LP pressing. Artifacts began humbly as a means of compiling a few early Beirut EPs for a proper physical release. However, as Zach Condon explains in album's excellent liner notes, reconnecting with old recordings through fresh ears turned a simple re-issue project into something much more expansive. "When the decision came to re-release this collection, I found myself digging through hard drives looking for something extra to add to the compilation. What started as a few extra unreleased tracks from my formative recording years quickly grew into an entire extra records-worth of music from my past, and a larger project of remixing and remastering everything I found for good measure." Artifacts is a phylogenetic tree. A double-LP's worth music that traces the evolution of Beirut from a 14-year old Condon's first attempts at bringing the music he heard in his mind to life, to the fully formed Beirut we know today.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 Elephant Gun
- 2 My Family's Role in the World Revolution
- 3 Scenic World
- 4 The Long Island Sound
- 5 Carousels
- 6 Transatlantique
- 7 O Leãozinho
- 8 Autumn Tall Tales
- 9 Fyodor Dormant
- 10 Poisoning Claude
- 11 Bercy
- 12 Your Sails
- 13 Irrlichter
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Sicily
- 2 Now I'm Gone
- 3 Napoleon on the Bellerophon
- 4 Interior of a Dutch House
- 5 Fountains and Tramways
- 6 Hot Air Balloon
- 7 Fisher Island Sound
- 8 So Slowly
- 9 Die Treue Zum Ursprung
- 10 The Crossing
- 11 Zagora
- 12 Le Phare Du Cap Bon
- 13 Babylon