| Gulag Orkestar | ||||
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| Released | May 9, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Balkan folk | |||
| Length | 37:25 | |||
| Label | Ba Da Bing | |||
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Gulag Orkestar is the debut album of Beirut. It was recorded in 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Gulag was a Soviet government agency administering criminal justice, while orkestar is the Serbo-Croatian word for "orchestra".
It is written in the booklet that the front and back photos were found in a library in Leipzig, torn out of a book. The original photographer was unknown to the creators of the album while it was recorded, but has since been discovered to be Sergey Chilikov.[1]
- ^ "Beirut's Condon Talks New LP, Obsession, Exhaustion". May 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. Retrieved 2007-05-07.