'A Study of Losses' is the seventh studio album from Beirut, the musical project of Zach Condon. The project originated in spring 2023, when Viktoria Dalborg, director at the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, reached out to Condon, asking if he would be interested to provide the music for their next project, a show based on an adaptation of a novel by German author Judith Schalansky. The main themes in Schalansky's book and in the adaptation for the circus show deal with the concept of loss and the impermanence of everything known to us: from extinct animal species, lost architectural and literary treasures to more abstract concepts of loss through the process of aging. In close collaboration, 'A Study of Losses', turned into a rather unexpected piece of music-at 18 songs and nearly an hour long, it is by far the largest album Beirut has ever done, and amongst some of their most beautiful work to date.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Disappearances and Losses

Beirut

2.Forest Encyclopedia

Beirut

3.Oceanus Procellarum

Beirut

4.Villa Sacchetti

Beirut

5.Mare Crisium

Beirut

6.Garbo's Face

Beirut

7.Mare Imbrium

Beirut

8.Tuanaki Atoll

Beirut

9.Mare Serenitatis

Beirut

10.Guericke's Unicorn

Beirut

11.Mare Humorum

Beirut

12.Sappho's Poems

Beirut

13.Ghost Train

Beirut

14.Caspian Tiger

Beirut

15.Mani's 7 Books

Beirut

16.Moon Voyager

Beirut

17.Mare Nectaris

Beirut

18.Mare Tranquillitatis

Beirut

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