There are undoubtedly many West Europeans a deep longing for Eastern Europe, of course, for a dreamed romanticized Eastern Europe, according sad tangos, gypsy violins kelzmatigen and of course to the Balkans sheet which sounds so nice after a fit of drunkenness funeral march. Even bigger seems this longing to be in America, where a lot of Jews living there looking for their cultural roots her gaze to Poland, Romania and the Ukraine align. So also a native of Albuquerque Zach Condon. He made the long journey to the age of 19, but only came to Prague and Berlin, where you can pick up such great words as Prenzlauer Berg, Bratislava or bunker. In Holland he found a collection of Eastern European music, which then inspired him to Songd Album. And so you have to see this record as a travel diary in the far reaches of their own dreams of the distant wild world behind the Carpathians. A journey which despite everything is fun, because we (see above) share so this yearning.