Condon: Horrible at limiting himself photo: Kristianna Smith

"Music is incredibly serious for me. There's nothing funny about it. I've never even had any other hobbies in my life," he says from his home base in Brooklyn. "I'm a very distractible person, but when it comes to writing music, I'm good at shutting things out. I tend to forget that there's a world outside"

In case it isn't obvious when listening to Beirut - the worldly, free-folk project he fronts with a couple handfuls of skilled players - Condon comes from a family of jazz musicians. Accordingly, his taste is broad, but harnessed. He likes everything from Balkan and klezmer music to the Magnetic Fields and Serge Gainsbourg, and (aided and abetted by trumpet, ukulele and his majestic croon) his influences penetrate the accessible fabric of his songs.

"I've always been horrible at limiting myself. It's always a toss-up which direction to go in," he says. "But it's pop. Whatever I play, I try to sing pop through it."

Beirut
w/ The Dodos
At Métropolis (59 Ste-Catherine E.), July 11, 8:30 p.m.













 
 

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