Monday Danish post-punk outfit Green Concorde released their evolutionary sophomore effort, ‘Down The Corridor To The Exit Through The Gates Out Into Safety’ – in my humble opinion an album adding new, needed and very pleasing aspects to their dark universe – and today guitarist Carsten Hebsgaard Nielsen gives us the rap on Green Concorde.

Who?
“Green Concorde, a four guy unit consisting of Morten, Peter, Simon and Carsten, joining together in Copenhagen in 2003. Apart from the music capacities, skills included in the unit are painting, web design, rhetoric and sheer street-smarts.”

Where?
“Originally in a claustrophobic, poorly isolated basement on Nørrebro in Copenhagen, where the unit spend four cold winters and four hot summers building up the songs for their debut album ‘Ten Cities’ from scratch.

That went on until one day, the unit stopped paying the landlord and moved out the drums, the bass, the guitars and the amplifiers, looking for a way out of a routine.

New locations meant new ways of working, and the unit found itself building up material in their own apartments, during midnight walks by the beach and in an isolated summerhouse on the outskirts of Denmark.”

What?
“A new album called ‘Down The Corridor To The Exit Through The Gates Out Into Safety’ with nine pieces of music, some of them within a genre often classified as post-punk.

A tight rhythm section with drums at times tending towards the monotone, yet together with the dynamic bass lines pulsating and vibrating the very ground as they work their way trough the repetitions. Delicate yet ultra sharp guitar riffs dance on top, sending shivers through the body of each song.

A searching vocal, at times raving about pandas in Japan shooting tigers with a riffle (‘Miami’), other times presenting a persona singing to the stars that they look like arrows on fire coming straight at him (‘Arrows On Fire’) – always building up scenarios characterized by feelings of tension and a sense of paranoia.”

Why?
“Because we have realized that the whole of our unit is bigger than the sum of its parts.”

Get more Green Concorde on their MySpace.