Santa Fe Community Convention Center
V.25 No.47 | 11/24/2016

Event Horizon
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle … Art
Friday, Dec 2: Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival
A showcase of art created from discarded materials.
V.20 No.40 | 10/6/2011

Kristianna Smith
Spotlight
Beirut’s Zach Condon Distills Himself
Trumpeter/ukulelist/singer Zach Condon, native Santa Fean and frontman for Beirut, has garnered a world of attention for music that draws heavily on his serial “flirtations,” as he calls them, with various genres. French chanson, Balkan brass, Mexican church bands, electronica—each has provided the inspiration and stylistic setting for a Beirut album.
The constants in those recordings, though, are Condon’s love affair with melody and his ear for the right sound in the right place. For the latest Beirut release, The Rip Tide, Condon focused on those elements, hoping to distill his own sound from the multigenre cocktail. He’s succeeded in creating his most personal and arguably his most beautiful and mature work to date.