Concorde

indie

Almost a decade ago Max, Clement and Roger started their musical journey. Between the three of them they discussed their thoughts about music’s past, present and future. Max took the analog drum machine, Roger and Clement their guitars, and they started jamming in the ceiling of a house. It was then they began to fuse the minimal beats with the droning noise of guitars, echoing the sounds of Suicide and Brian Eno's Warm Jets. What happened after was a voyage into the well chartered waters of electronic, working on computers to forge a warm knife to slice into the coldness. Working with this method for a while, they eventually reached a turning point, moving towards a lighter and warmer sound, though not losing their ability to bring stillness to a developing smile. They started to produce melodies that were more playful and not so rigid, to create a naïve theme with a layer of beats that were nonetheless still crisp with iciness. As the project started to take form, they found Louis playing in the undergrowths of the Paris music scene. Together they formed as Concorde. Concorde started to produce songs with cleaner sounding tracks that gave light to their love affair with past artists and genres such as the Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, ESG and 70's disco. However, combining the cold roughness of their developing days with their newfound warmth, they started to achieve a more controlled voice and image. Working with Blackjoy in the studio, experimenting with vintage gear and analogue synthesizers, Concorde now started playing side by side with artists such as Julian Casablancas and Fujiya Miyagi. They had now made their first idea a reality, to create a sound that displays the complex naivety and playfulness present in their unique version of pop music. Clément et les deux frères Max et Roger étaient loin d’imaginer il y a dix ans combien leurs sensibilités et références musicales, diverses et complémentaires, se révéleraient si propices à la créativité. De leur période initiatique, début d’une amitié profonde, subsistent des mélodies joliment ciselées aux influences multiples, allant des sixties à Gainsbourg, en passant par Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, ESG et Joy Division. Cette pop-rock intimiste, plutôt réservée, inclinant à la mélancolie, feint alors de s’affranchir de sa vraie nature par les accords denses des synthétiseurs analogiques et les effets noisy des guitares, propres à Suicide et au Warm Jets de Brian Eno. Mais l...