Zach Condon’s album from a cabin near the Arctic Circle

The World

Musician Zach Condon leads the band, Beirut, but his latest album is a solo project, recorded at an isolated cabin in Hadsel, Norway, near the Arctic Circle. He tells host Marco Werman that the cold and blustery winter weather inspired the music, which features an antique foot-powered reed organ, a full-sized pipe organ at a local church and all the electronic gear he could haul to his cabin.

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