A Study of Losses

Description

‘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.

Tracklisting

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