Beirut – A Study Of Losses (2LP)

Beirut – A Study Of Losses (2LP)

🎧 Listening Experience:
Embark on an emotionally resonant, cinematic journey through themes of loss, beauty, and transformation. This expansive double LP offers Beirut's most ambitious work to date—18 songs spanning nearly an hour of distinctive orchestral arrangements, melancholic brass, and Zach Condon's signature evocative vocals. Born from a unique collaboration with Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, the album weaves together contemplative soundscapes that explore the impermanence of all things, from extinct species to lost treasures. Expect sweeping, immersive compositions that reward deep listening.

Album Background:
A Study Of Losses is the seventh studio album from Beirut, the musical project of Zach Condon. The project originated in spring 2023, when Viktoria Dalborg, director at the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, reached out to Condon, asking if he would be interested to provide the music for their next project, a show based on an adaptation of a novel by German author Judith Schalansky.

The main themes in Schalansky's book and in the adaptation for the circus show deal with the concept of loss and the impermanence of everything known to us: from extinct animal species, lost architectural and literary treasures to more abstract concepts of loss through the process of aging.

In close collaboration, A Study Of Losses, turned into a rather unexpected piece of music - at 18 songs and nearly an hour long, it is by far the largest album Beirut has ever done, and amongst some of their most beautiful work to date.

Track List:
1. Disappearances And Losses
2. Forest Encyclopedia
3. Oceanus Procellarum
4. Villa Sacchetti
5. Mare Crisium
6. Garbo's Face
7. Mare Imbrium
8. Tuanaki Atoll
9. Mare Serenitatis
10. Guericke's Unicorn
11. Mare Humorum
12. Sappho's Poems
13. Ghost Train
14. Caspian Tiger
15. Mani's 7 Books
16. Moon Voyager
17. Mare Nectaris
18. Mare Tranquillitatis

Format: 2LP
Label: Pompeii
Status: In Stock