Foolish Sage | May 17, 2009
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I need to get this series done!
Video #8 from the Beirut album The Flying Club Cup is titled “In the Mausoleum.” Here’s the video:
The lyrics are very brief and sung only once in the song:
Time travels to learn
your secret life
in your [...]
Foolish Sage | April 5, 2009
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I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #7 is “Forks and Knives (La Fete)”. Here’s the video:
The game room of a Brooklyn bar is the [...]
Foolish Sage | March 2, 2009
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I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #5 is Cliquot.
I think this may be my favorite song on the album. There is both resignation and [...]
Foolish Sage | February 27, 2009
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Here is the video from the fourth song on Flying Club Cup by Beirut (Zach Condon and band). The song is “La Banlieue”
La banlieue (literally “the outskirts”) is the French term for an area of low income housing around the edge [...]
Foolish Sage | February 26, 2009
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I’m currently blogging through the set of videos for Zach Condon’s (aka Beirut) magical album The Flying Club Cup. Today’s song is “Guyamas Sonora.”
I think it was this song that made me start thinking about another side to Zach’s exploration of [...]
Foolish Sage | February 24, 2009
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Here is the video for “Sunday Smile,” the second song off Beirut’s album Flying Club Cup.
This time the video is set in the courtyard of a Brooklyn apartment building. I like the substitution of twin ukuleles in this live arrangement for [...]
Foolish Sage | February 23, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
Beirut (Creator/songwriter Zach Condon & band) is an intriguing fusion of indie/pop sensibilities with European folk traditions. Condon’s first album, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar, was heavily influence by Balkan and gypsy traditions. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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