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Zach Condon Biography

Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon. Beirut's music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. The band's first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. Despite their name, Beirut had never performed in Lebanon until the Byblos International Festival in August 2014.

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I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

Look, Looks, Musically, People, Want

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

Laughing, Lying, Talents, Tend, Think, Thinking

I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.

Back, Came, Drum, Introduction, Kind, Writing

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.

Cocky, Giving, Say, Willing, Write, Writing

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound. " And I've never fully explored it.

2010, Developed, Ideas, Influence, Kind

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

Donated, Equipment, Junky, Trumpet, Trumpets, Ukulele

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.

Besides, Endure, Hurt, Point, Stress, Years

I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

Bridge, Bridges, Guitar, Mobility, Neck, Pain

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

Teenager, Interesting, Perspective, Adult, Tell

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.

Creating, Enjoy, Needs, Reached, Realised

It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.

Bedroom, Guy, Ridiculous, Synth, Thing

It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big deal to me, and it changed me in a lot of ways. And now that it's five, six years later, I wanted to look back at that, the start of it all, the excitement and the naïveté about it, and it just fascinated me to reflect on all that.

Crazy, Excitement, Eye, Naïveté, Public

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

Come, Harmonies, Harmony, Melody, My Thoughts, Thought

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

Follow, Giving, Lyrically, Tend, Thinking, Way

I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

Hated, Lifestyle, Student, Students

I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.

Actually, Done, Entirely, Think, Thinking, Way

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

Age, Gotta, Mp3, Owning, Special, Worth

I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on. . . in other words, I write by recording.

Hear, Moving, Thinking, Time, Working, Writing

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

Hair, Sing, Song, Time, Want

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

Artist, Days, Like, Nervous, Pressure

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