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I think I had a near-dissociative experience leading the band through some of these songs in rehearsal for the first time. It was like watching an aircraft made of found objects and scrap metal magically take flight despite all my premonitions of disaster.

I shuffled everyone into the studio for the Lon Gisland EP right as the shows started to sell out and before we set out on our first international tour.

Thus began the band Beirut. I then decided to include my favorite unreleased tracks that I had recorded with the various band members and other musicians throughout the years, that had yet to see the light of day. Then I dug deeper, into the oldest recordings I could find, from my early teens up until my first recordings of the songs that would become my first release. I included everything that still moved me and had significance to the development of my sound.

I wanted to include more, but I simply ran out of space. Ami Spishock, info fortwilliammanagement. Rob Challice for Coda Music Agency, rob codaagency. Steven Himmelfarb for The Feldman Agency, himmelfarb feldman-agency. Straight Gypsy tunes follow bouncy synth-pop. Records in Brooklyn, to one of them; and the young New Mexican soon relocated.

It all seems like style over substance. Half of what makes that band work is the fact that the singer dresses crazy. Condon is working on a new EP, and this record may reflect his newest world-music obsession, fado. It was the only class I liked in college. Well, before I quit. When our new trumpet player came in, he sounded very regal and was perfectly alliterating all the notes. I remember saying, No, you have to slop it up! Then there are people who use music to get a raw attitude out.

And then there are people who are simply looking for beauty, for the sentimentality that good music has. Something had changed in Condon. The show was rowdy but controlled. And I feel comfortable enough now that I bounce around onstage like a 5-year-old.

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