Richard Green
Acclaimed musician Richard Green joins us to discuss his latest creative endeavors, musical influences, and artistic evolution. Discover the inspirations, challenges, and stories behind his distinctive musical journey.
1. “Purpose and Price” explores the idea that success can come at the cost of one’s humanity. What was it about that television dialogue that resonated with you so strongly, and how did you translate that concept into music?
Well, really on specific sentence from that dialogue resonated in my mind, more precisely a question where a character ask to another one “How much it cost to you??” and he was unable to reply….I thought about that sentence few days and I’ve decided to create a music beat about it, so i wanted a bit aggressive but at the same time chill and quite, first represent the price and the chill section with the guitar solo at the end the purpose.
2. Your music often blends genres that many artists would keep separate. On this single, you combine rock, funk, hip-hop, electronic, blues, and jazz influences. How do you approach creating a cohesive sound from such diverse musical elements?
it’s really comes natural to me and I do not want to say that it came always very good and brilliant, sometimes I’ve recorded very messy tracks that I delated immediately after.
Since I started all of this, I wanted to develop my own unique music styles and having always listened to several styles of music, so combines different genres comes naturally to me, plus I often compose based on my emotions and instinct in that specific moment….
3. You handle composition, performance, and production yourself before working with a sound engineer on the final mix and master. What are the advantages and challenges of maintaining such complete creative control over your projects?
First and foremost, I want to improve myself day by day, it’s a mindset I have since my younger age, so Ive always thought more stuff I do and better I get, professionally and as a musician.
The hardest challenge is surely accepting to make a lot of mistakes, especially in areas i ve studied less, but learning from then and do not get discouraged.
I admit to have discarded so many tracks, at least one hundred in 4 years, but I truly believe that is thanks to them if I’m improved a lot and been able to create interesting music….
4. You’ve cited the Red Hot Chili Peppers as an important influence, particularly due to the music you played during your formative years. In what ways do you think those early experiences continue to shape your songwriting and guitar work today?
I’ve played a lot of Red hot and even spent a lot of years listening their music, but, as for every musician who play and study music for many years, musical tastes changes, other musician as Brad Paisley influences me more nowadays, but because I have played Red Hot literally for 10 years at least, there will be always some songs of mine in which their influences will be possible to be heard
5. Having completed a neoclassical trilogy and now releasing projects that range from electronic music to genre-bending rock and funk, what drives your desire to constantly explore different musical styles rather than focusing on a single genre?
This question brings back of what I have talked about before, it’s really connected to my desire to create my own personal music style and my desire to improve as musician and composer, plus I do not like set myself any limits in term of music styles,
By the way I intend to bring coherence to this working on three main musical projects:
– One that will continue the neoclassical trilogy with other classical music, maybe new age/modern classical or kind of electronic-classical
– A second one that just released “Electronic therapy”, on this project I’m going to focus on EDM-DANCE, chill out and lounge, and others type of electronic music, kind of producer and make create. music for DJs too.
– The Third project is strongly connected to my guitar passion and it’s the one I’m going to play guitar as well, as in Purpose and Price, this project is going to focus mainly on music beat (hip-hop, funk, indie electro) and pop/rock/funky songs with some vocals as well (one of my projects for next year but it’s not sure yet cause still need to find the right singer)
6. With the upcoming Electronic Therapy EP and another release featuring “Purpose and Price” on the horizon, what can listeners expect from this next chapter of your artistic journey, and how do these projects reflect your evolution as a musician?
Electronic therapy is an original work where I combine elements from melodic house, melodic techno, EDM music all mixed, with a song, as “Choices ” that surely the most melodic one or Badmouth, a very aggressive house/techno track…
The Ep featuring Purpose and Price is for my project as guitarist /composer (third one) and it’s going to be a collection of music beats and even on this one a great mix of music styles, from Funk to Indie Rock and Indie Pop and few beat quite into HipHop music (instrumentals) and, that ep is going to have a lot of guitars recorded.
I guess this could reflect my creativity and originality, that it’s my strongest point i guess but of course i do not stop here, because I’m still want to improve a lot and even more important, I’m still having a lot of things to say with my music….