Last fall, Beirut aka Zach Condon released Hadsel, his first new album in more than four years. In March of this year, Condon contributed trumpet to Efterklang’s “Getting Reminders.” Today, Condon/Beirut is back with a brand-new single,

Beirut has released a new song titled ‘Caspian Tiger’. The track was originally written as part of the soundtrack Zach Condon composed for Swedish circus company Kompani Giraff’s touring production A Study of Losses.

Caspian Tiger” was one of the first songs I wrote for the new album, with images in mind of the poor animals caged or fighting in Roman colosseums. They had been taken from the Asian steppes around the Caspian Sea and from as far east as Tashkent,