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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.

OBEY YOUR BRAIN
JANUARY 6th, 2009
SONOTHEQUE
1444 W. CHICAGO
FREE ADMISSION

CHANDELIERS

djs HUNTER HUSAR + TIME WARNER (of MAHJONGG/ WATERBABIES)

For a limited time Icy Demons Miami Ice will be available to download from iTunes for only $7.99. Available Monday, December 22nd to Monday, January 12th.

OBEY YOUR BRAIN is a Free monthly night curated by the folks at the Shape Shoppe and OYB records.

The first night features :::

WATERBABIES (members of MAHJONGG and LAZER CRYSTAL bands)


dj Alex Valentine of the Shape Shoppe studio, No Coast store

dj Smart Cousin of the Shape Shoppe studio, OYB, Icy Demons and Chandeliers bands.

+ + + + Special Guest DJ HoloGram Trav of that band the Killer Whales + + + +

Every month we’ll feature: live band (s) and either super cool dj (s) or underground film (s) or both (s).
We’ll be selling, posters, records, clothes,
bling, etc..

Check out the inaugural night this December the 16th if you are in Chicago, its free!

From Pitchforkmedia.com:

When Beirut’s Zach Condon canceled his European tour earlier this year to collect himself, he didn’t just sit around reading On the Road, watching “Oprah”, and wolfing down Ben & Jerry’s by the tubful. Well okay, who knows really, maybe he did. But he also spent some time cooking up a nifty little double-disc release.

Come February 17 in the U.S. and February 16 in Europe, Condon’s own Pompeii Records (with an assist from Ba Da Bing!) will issue a pair of EPs from the Zachster, packaged together but spread out over separate CDs for maximum EP-ability. The first, March of the Zapotec, collects six new tracks partially recorded in Mexico recently by Beirut, while the second, Holland, is credited to Realpeople and features five solo jams from Zach’s early home-recording days. UPDATE: Though Realpeople was the name of Condon’s early project, these are new recordings.

Astute readers will recognize Realpeople track “My Night With the Prostitute From Marseille” from that Natalie Portman-curated Big Change comp (billed to Beirut), while “Venice” previously turned up on the CD accompanying The Believer’s 2007 Music Issue (billed to Zach’s given name). Icy Demon Griffin Rodriguez engineered and mastered the March of the Zapotec/Holland two-fer, and the guy’s Obey Your Brain imprint will be responsible for putting it out on vinyl.

Check back tomorrow to read Condon’s thoughts on the new release and other matters Beirut, and brace yourself for the band’s return to the road, planned for next year.

Beirut: March of the Zapotec:

01 El Zocalo
02 La Llorna
03 My Wife
04 The Akara
05 On a Bayonet
06 The Shrew

Realpeople: Holland:

01 My Night With a Prostitute From Marseille
02 My Wife, Lost in the Wild
03 Venice
04 The Concubine
05 No Dice