Beirut - A Study Of Losses

Pompeii - POMP012LP-C1

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.

Side A:
Disappearances And Losses
Forest Encyclopedia
Oceanus Procellarum
Villa Sacchetti
Mare Crisium
Garbo's Face
Mare Imbrium

Side B:
Tuanaki Atoll
Mare Serenitatis
Guericke's Unicorn
Mare Humorum
Sappho's Poems
Ghost Train

Side C:
Caspian Tiger
Mani's 7 Books
The Moonwalker
Mare Nectaris
Mare Tranquillitatis

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