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Get excited! Quirky electro-alt. band Beirut is finally going to show the musical world just exactly what they’ve been up to this past year with the release of two new EPs, March of the Zapotec and Holland, in early 2009. According to front man and genre blender extraordinaire, Zach Condon, the simultaneous release of both EPs will serve to reveal the immense musical malleability of  band and of Condon’s own disposition to experiment with various instruments and styles.

March of the Zapotec, named after a group of indigenous peoples of central Mexico, is a fitting title for an EP recorded by the culturally astute Beirut in Oaxaca, Mexico with the help of so-called local “march masters” The Jimenez Band.  On the other hand, Condon also seems to be embracing his early Euro influences with the second EP, Holland, which he tokens as a return to his “bedroom-style,” acoustic recordings under the umbrella of his other musical project: Realpeople. However different both EPs sound, listeners can find comfort in the fact that Beirut is coming back with a bang.  

Read Condon’s interview with Pitchfork  for more info on the development and recording of both EPs…

And for what the EPs will consist of:

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