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OBEY YOUR BRAIN NIGHT #4 at SONOTHEQUE
THIS TUESDAY, ST PATTY’s 17 of MARCH.
COME OUT TO THE SHOW.

TELL YOUR BOYFRIENDS.

this Tuesday night at Sonotheque

featuring
GOLDEN BIRTHDAY
MAGICAL, BEAUTIFUL
djs CHRIS K + HOLOGRAM TRAV

a listening preview of BRAIN 05: Beirut:
March of the Zapotec at 9:30pm

Feb 6 // Hideout Chicago - Chicago, IL
Feb 7 // Beloit College - Pearson’s Hall
Feb 19 // Bottle Tree - Birmingham, AL
Feb 20 // 529 - Atlanta, GA
Feb 21 // Little Kings - Athens, GA
Feb 22 // Local 506 - Chapel Hill, NC
Feb 23 // Johnny Brenda’s - Philly, PA
Feb 25 // Mercury Lounge - NY, NY
Feb 26 // Middle East (downstairs) - Cambridge, MA
Feb 27 // Bennington College w/ Dirty Projectors
Feb 28 // Big Orbit’s Sound Lab - Buffalo, NY

New Dates for February…

2/6/09
at The Hideout
with Chandeliers
9pm

2/7/09
at Beloit College
with Chandeliers
9pm

End of February East Coast tour and May Euro-tour dates to come soon. Check back…

Nice mix, Griffin!

March Of The Zapotec will be packaged together with another EP, Holland, which includes five solo Condon home recordings under his “Realpeople” moniker.

March Of The Zapotec/Holland is out 2/17 via Condon’s Pompeii Records/Ba Da Bing. Both will be available on vinyl via Obey Your Brain.

From Stereogum: A while ago we mentioned that Zach Condon headed to Oaxaca, Mexico — the weaver village of Teotitlan del Valle to be exact — and hooked up with the 19-piece Jimenez Band band, who helped him get the sounds he needed for his March Of The Zapotec EP. Condon plans to release some short films documenting the experience, but in the Owen Cook-animated video for standout “La Llorna” he stayed home and wrote a narrative about a little dog, a mourner, the band, a Mexican graveyard, and a puddle of tears (or, well, rain). It helps to know that “La Llorona”’s “the weeping woman” in Spanish and relates to a legend about a woman who killed her children then herself after she was rejected by a man. She spends her time as a weeping ghost, wandering in search of the kids.