Experimental Electronic from Richard Green

From Italy to London, Richard Green is a talented composer and guitarist who’s musical output flows freely across a vast array of musical styles. Now based between London and Milan, he’s spent more than a decade in the UK capital, developing his fiercely original sonic vision and instrumental talents through formal study with a higher diploma and a musician’s degree before stepping out with his own material. In recent years, he’s earned a reputation for treating genre boundaries as a canvas rather than a cage, stitching his diverse influences into a sonic fabric that’s colourful and constantly taking on new shapes.

He made his first mark in 2020 with the debut single “Dark Horses,” a dark and brooding electronic outing that put his experimental approach on full display. With his 2021 EP Color and Sound, he guided listeners from shimmering synth-led crescendos into more reflective spaces, where delicate passages were coloured by his emotive guitar work.

Since then, his output has remained consistent and always utterly compelling; through a steady sting of singles and EPs, he’s earned hundreds of thousands of streams and built up a following of listeners around the world. Exploring an astonishing range of genres and styles, his catalogue flows from instrumental rock and pop, orchestral style compositions and more avant-garde electronic sounds. Now he showcases his range with his single titled “Holding a Gun,” a song which sees him lean into an experimental synth-based sphere.

The track reflects both a challenging personal year and his steadfast mission to explore the fringes of his expansive musical world. Taking cues from electronic producers such as Boys Noize, he threads elements of synth pop vibes, uptempo grooves and more leftfield detours into passages of stuttered melodies and shifting rhythms. Built on a hybrid of tech house and breakbeat textures, the piece explores the theme of judgment and misunderstanding, framed by the imagery of finger pointing.

Set up by the flutter of buzzy synth stabs, the rattle of percussive shots injects a slick rhythm as the arrangement builds up with counter synth melodies, forming a lively jam that’s engaging and subtly off-kilter. Gliding through moments of deconstructed beats and rhythmic structures, the track jumps through dance-focused vibes to form an epic electronic instrumental track that showcases the artist’s pure creativity.

It’s a stellar slice of the playful electronic side of his sound, offering another incredible example of an artist able to dig into an an extraordinary range of contrasting styles. With a new EP on the way, Richard Green continues to prove himself as a truly inventive musical figure making music that both surprises and connects.

Listen to Holding a Gun below

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