Sunday Smile

Suddenly I realized that every Sunday morning I want to feel with a smile on my face. And then I understood that everything has the reason. The city we live, the people we meet, the music we listen. Beirut – an American band, that involves Eastern European music, Balkan folk, Western pop music, that helps to highlight indie – rock culture and the world music.

Beirut

The main member of the band is Zachary Francis Condon. His first performance was in New York in 2006 and was the total disaster. However, after three months the band grew into ten members, who were creating sounds of the world under the Beirut name. Why Beirut? As Zachary says, ‘Beirut is still good analogy for my music. If things go down that are truly horrible, I’ll change the name.’

The instruments such as cello, accordion, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, drums, violin, organ, keys, tambourine, baritone sax, glockenspiel, trumpet, euphonium, flugelhorn create the sounds of the band. Some of these instruments are the national ones of the particular countries. That is why while listening to Beirut I can feel spirit of the latitudes, spirit of the bigness.  Sometimes I think, that Beirut should be the place, where you can come and see everything you want to see – all the world. And not even to see, but to hear every different part of our land. It may sounds very symbolical, but as Condon says, ‘ There are three ways I see music used in the modern world. One is for thinkers: they approach it analytically. 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.’ I guess, my way is the third one. 

What is interesting, I see even more symbols of this band while thinking how I was introduced to Beirut. In order to be touched by this band, I had to come all the way from Eastern Europe to Scotland, then to meet a boy from England with American passport and then to start my journey in the latitudes of Beirut.

I guess, the only thing that would be great at the moment, is to go to Nantes on Sunday morning, then to eat lunch In The Mausoleum with Forks and Knives. The route of this journey is right  here

www.beirutband.com

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