Beirut

A Study of Losses [Film Noir] [Pre-Order]

$35.00

This item is a PRE-ORDER set to ship by late April, any items purchased with this pre-order will not ship until April. If you wish to receive your non pre-order items sooner, please place them on a separate order

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Release date: 4/18/25

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

1. Disappearances and Losses

2. Forest Encyclopedia

3. Oceanus Procellarum

4. Villa Sacchetti

5. Mare Crisium

6. Garbo's Face

7. Mare Imbrium

SIDE B

8. Tuanaki Atoll

9. Mare Serenitatis

10. Guericke's Unicorn

11. Mare Humorum

12. Sappho's Poems

13. Ghost Train

SIDE C

14. Caspian Tiger

15. Mani's 7 Books

16. Moon Voyager

17. Mare Nectaris

18. Mare Tranquillitatis