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Kyle Dean Reinford

Beirut, Inlets & Tune Yards @ MHOW, Brooklyn, NY - pics

photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

Beirut

Last night’s show (2/4) at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn was a solid bill from start to finish begining with headliner Beirut playing after Inlets who played after Tune Yards

For musician Merrill Garbus — whose one-woman band Tune-yards features ukulele, voice, and found sounds filtered through a hand-held digital voice recorder and then sent to her laptop for mixing — self-releasing her debut Bird-Brains was all about empowerment. “Bird-Brains was very intentionally done all through ‘free’ media, i.e. the digital-voice recorder, my laptop, free Audacity software — and all by me. I was very much in a feminist frame of mind when I chose to use those as my limitations,” she says. “As a woman musician, I’m in the world of men a lot. I catch myself, even, assuming that women musicians don’t record, produce, or even write their own stuff.” [Venus Zine]

Like at the recent show at Coco66, Beirut played a mix of old and new. Unlike at Coco6, Beirut played a cover of “Brazil”, an Ary Baroso/Ed Russel standard that Arcade Fire also covered and released.

Beirut’s current band incarnation isn’t as large as we’ve seen in the past. Friday and Saturday night at BAM it will be bigger than ever. More pictures from last night below…

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