New Beirut video Concubine

Check out the new video for Concubine from Beirut's March Of The Zapotec/ Holland EP.



March Of The Zapotec/ Holland EP is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Beirut video of entire live set at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Beirut have just released a new double EP and many of the songs can be seen and heard in this performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, captured by Baeble Music.




Set list:
East Harlem
***The Shrew***
The Concubine
Mimizan
La Javanaise
The Akara
Cozak
My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles
Gulag Orkestar
Forks and Knives (La Fete)
Brazil

March of the Zapotec/Holland is out now.

Beirut marches out with new double EP

March of the Zapotec/Holland is the new double EP from Beirut and is perhaps the most ambitious outing to date, culminating a year where the musical focus was split deftly and smoothly down the middle.

March of the Zapotec finds Zach and the boys in Oaxaca, Mexico. With the help of the 19 piece Band Jimenez, they craft their most beautifully melancholic songs to date, creating an astounding link between the oompa sounds of Eastern Europe and their Mexican counterparts.

Holland is a return to Zach's pre-Beirut bedroom recordings moniker, Realpeople. An exploration into the shimmery waters of synth pop and 90's house, Holland proves that a musically restless soul doesn't quite travel from one country to the next, but instead follows the sounds that speak to it most truly.

March of the Zapotec/Holland is out now.

La Llorona from March of the Zapotec

Dark Was The Night compilation out now

Dark Was The Night, the 20th release by the Red Hot Organization to raise funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS, is out now.

Produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, DWTN is available on double CD and triple vinyl and features 31 new and exclusive tracks from a vast array of indie's biggest names including Feist, Arcade Fire and Sharon Jones.

Here are just a few tracks from the release:

Dark Was The Night Widget

February 14th will see the release of the 20th Red Hot Charity compilation, Dark Was The Night, curated by The National's Dessner brothers.

Over the past week or so, a different track from the album has been uploaded on the DWTN MySpace page. Already uploaded have been a collaboration between Dirty Projectors + David Byrne (on first single Knotty Pine, downloadable here), as well as songs from Bon Iver, The National, Feist and My Brightest Diamond.

If you missed them the first time around, you can now head over to the DWTN website and make your widget player.



For those unaware, the Red Hot Organisation is an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS, using music as a great way of achieving both. Their track record is second-to-none, having worked with many greats in their time (including U2, George Michael, Madonna, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Wu Tang Clan among many, many more) and Dark Was The Night is the next instalment in an already esteemed compilation series.

First single from Dark Was The Night compilation

Dark Was The Night is a 31-track compilation produced for noted AIDS charity The Red Hot Organisation and features a stellar cast of musicians including Cat Power, The Decemberists, Sharon Jones and Arcade Fire. Out February 14th, Dark Was The Night was produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner from The National with John Carlin (the charity’s founder).

The first single is Knotty Pine, a fantastic collaboration between Dirty Projectors and David Byrne. The 7" is backed with an excellent new track from The National, So Far Around The Bend.

Knotty Pine by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne [mp3]


To hear more tracks from Dark Was The Night, head to their MySpace where they are currently uploading a new track each day. The full tracklist can be found here.

Dark Was The Night tracklist revealed

The tracklist for Dark Was The Night, a Red Hot charity compilation curated by The National's Dessner brothers, has been revealed. The release will be available on double CD and triple vinyl on February 14th.

DISC ONE:

1. "Knotty Pine" - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2. "Cello Song" - The Books featuring Joses Gonzalez
3. "Train Song" - Feist and Ben Gibbard
4. "Brackett, WI" - Bon Iver
5. "Deep Blue Sea" - Grizzly Bear
6. "So Far Around The Bend" - The National
7. "Tightrope" - Yeasayer
8. "Feeling Good" - My Brightest Diamond
9. "Dark Was The Night" - Kronos Quartet
10. "I Was Young When I Left Home" - Antony with Bryce Dessner
11. "Big Red Machine" - Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12. "Sleepless" - The Decemberists
13. "Die" - Iron & Wine
14. "Service Bell" - Grizzly Bear + Feist
15. "You Are The Blood" - Sufjan Stevens


DISC TWO:

1. "Well-Alright" - Spoon
2. "Lenin" - Arcade Fire
3. "Mimizan" - Beirut
4. "El Caporal" - My Morning Jacket
5. "Inspiration Information" - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
6. "With A Girl Like You" - Dave Sitek
7. "Blood Pt. 2" - Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8. "Hey, Snow White" - The New Pornographers
9. "Gentle Hour" - Yo La Tengo
10. "Amazing Grace" - Cat Power
11. "Happiness" - Riceboy Sleeps
12. "Another Saturday" - Stuart Murdoch
13. "The Giant Of Illinois" - Andrew Bird
14. "Lua" - Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch
15. "When The Road Runs Out" - Blonde Redhead & Devastations
16. "Love Vs. Porn" - Kevin Drew

The National's Dessner brothers curate new Red Hot compilation

In conjunction with WORLD AIDS DAY on Monday December 1, 4AD have announced the official release date, complete list of participating artists and cover art for the upcoming release Dark Was The Night.

Dark Was The Night will be released in Australia on February 14th, 2009. The album is produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, and John Carlin - founder of the Red Hot Organization - is the album's executive producer. Dark Was the Night comprises 31 exclusive tracks on double CD/triple vinyl and will benefit the Red Hot Organization - an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Red Hot was founded on the premise that even without a cure, AIDS remains a preventable disease, and that music is a great vehicle to raise money for and awareness of it. This is the 20th year of Red Hot and Dark Was the Night is the 20th release.

The complete list of artists (in alphabetical order) on the album is:
Andrew Bird
Antony + Bryce Dessner
Arcade Fire
Beirut
Blonde Redhead + Devastations
Bon Iver
Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner
The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Seregeti)
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
The Decemberists
Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
Kevin Drew
Feist + Ben Gibbard
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear + Feist
Iron & Wine
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Kronos Quartet
Stuart Murdoch
My Brightest Diamond
My Morning Jacket
The National
The New Pornographers
Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
Riceboy Sleeps
Dave Sitek
Spoon
Sufjan Stevens
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo

Dark Was The Night will be out through 4AD/ Remote Control on February 14, 2009.

Beirut's new EP and Natalie Portman charity collaboration

Beirut's Zach Condon is set to release a double disc package. Disc one is March of the Zapotec with 6 new tracks recently recorded in Mexico. Disc two is entitled Holland and features the track My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille.

Natalie Portman recently declared Beirut to be her "new favourite band", so when she was asked to curate the charity mix CD Big Change: Songs for FINCA, she asked Beirut first. You can listen to the track over at EW.

myspace.com/beruit

And not only is Natalie charitable, she has also come up with a brilliant plan to save the global economic crisis, endorsed by us here at RC:

Beirut on Pitchfork TV

Gracing Australian stages earlier this year, you can now watch Zach Condon, aka Beirut, and his Gulag Orkestar as they perform the majority of their latest album The Flying Club Cub in various places throughout Brooklyn. The footage was directed by Vincent Moon, the man behind The National's new documentary A Skin, A Night.

You can see Beirut's performance here. It will only be up for one week so make sure you see it before it disappears as quickly as it appeared.

www.beirutband.com/ | www.myspace.com/beruit

A Sunday Smile [mp3]