Beirut - ArtifactsDouble vinyl LP pressing. Artifacts began humbly as a means of compiling a few early Beirut EPs for a proper physical release. However, as Zach Condon explains in album's excellent liner notes, reconnecting with old recordings through fresh ears turned a simple re issue project into something much more expansive. "When the decision came to re release this collection, I found myself digging through hard drives looking for something extra to add to the

Their music is deeply emotive

with his family when he was in his early teens

with brighter tones and sharper playing

Kay Starr was one of the coterie of stylish and striking female vocalists alongside the likes of Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page

With the theft by the band from Birmingham exposed

who took her DMA at Temple

with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and with Renaud Capucon at the Haute Ecole Musique in Lausanne

a name synonymous with making musical history around the world

Including a blues-infused cover of Stevie Wonder's classic 'Isn't She Lovely'

some of which at least need not shy any comparison with Schumann

Andrea Zollo and Derek Fudesco had played together in Death Wish Kids and Area 51 along with Dann Gallucci

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