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Beirut's Condon Plans Double EP Release
The Quietus , October 30th, 2008 13:29

Twin set to feature new songs as well as fresh takes on archive material

Beirut

Beirut's Zach Condon will release a pair of EPs on February 16.

Everyone's favourite folk dilettante will issue a package comprising two EPs through Ba Da Bing! and his own Pompeii Records. The first disc is entitled March of the Zapotec and features six new tracks recently recorded by Beirut on a Mexican jaunt. Meanwhile second EP Holland is credited to Realpeople and collects new recordings of tracks first coined during Condon's early home recording days.

Both recordings were engineered and mastered by Icy Demon Griffin Rodriguez.

Tracklisting:

Beirut, March of the Zapotec

'El Zocalo'
'La Llorna'
'My Wife'
'The Akara'
'On a Bayonet'
'The Shrew'

Realpeople, Holland

'My Night With a Prostitute From Marseille'
'My Wife, Lost in the Wild'
'Venice'
'The Concubine'
'No Dice'