Style : Folk, Balkan
Released : 2007
Label : Ba Da Bing
Size : 35.8 mb
Audio : VBR

1. Elephant Gun
2. My Family’s Role In The World Revolution
3. Scenic World (Version)
4. The Long Island Sound
5. Carousels

The sleeper hit of 2006, Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar came out of nowhere to sell tens of thousands of copies in a matter of months and wound up on countless critics’ year-end lists. As a stopgap before recording a new full-length in Fall 2007—and as a way to capture some current songs being performed at shows—the eight-member band checked into Sea Side Studios in Brooklyn to record Lon Gisland.

Paul Collins - ukulele, organ, percussion
Zach Condon - vocals, ukulele, trumpet, piano
Jon Natchez - ukulele, clarinet, baritone saxophone, glockenspiel
Kelly Pratt - trumpet, flugelhorn, euphonium
Kristin Ferebee - violin
Jason Peranski - mandolin, ukulele
Nick Petree - percussion
Perrin Cloutier - cello, accordion