When The Music Becomes “A Story”: Richard Green Trilogy
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A Story is a single that sounds like the prologue to an inward-looking novel on a rainy summer day and every chord is a page and every line a memory that has to be unearthed.On April 24, 2024, Richard Green released his shiny new song named “A Story. It is at the centre of his trio of neoclassical compositions (and it also acts as a source of emotional anchoring and narrative drive in First Chapter, A Journey and The Circle Closes). The records were recorded at the splendid Studio Elfo, just outside of Milan, with stirring reception on the emotional piano of Irene Veneziano and make-heard strings of Archimia, and finds a unique mix of classical precision with a blues-jazz core. Having laid out its first faint stirring in First Chapter, the odyssey of Green begins with intimate motifs and soft harmonies, like the opening of an inner diary. The subtle interplay between piano and strings mirrors the emotional push and pull of memory itself fragile yet persistent, fleeting yet eternal. One can almost hear the silence between the notes, as if Green intended to give space for reflection as much as for sound. Before the listener reaches the beginning of the story, in “A Story” he is half-way gone, swept up in a world of love and loss and hushed discovery. The tune swings between the calm of neoclassicism and passionate outbursts of blues-jazz, telling the life story with the open and beautiful candour.
This story is just deepened by the rest of the songs on A Journey- one of the songs with eyes shut probes feelings of isolation and introspection through the use of ethereal strings, The arrangement carefully balances restraint and release, giving the impression of an intimate conversation unfolding between the instruments. Every swell of the strings feels deliberate, like a painter adding color to a nearly finished canvas, and one of the songs reaches its epiphany with harmonies that glistened like sunrise after a long night.
Finally, there is a wrap-up of the trilogy through The Circle Closes. There are reoccurring melodic lines, refined and familiar, to a soft resolution. It is something like Green has brought out there and now endorsed with certainty, like loop-closure in music. Green says: “I treat each song as a story.” An accompanying little book that comes with the physical EP also brings the imagery to life allowing people to take a journey with me.
This is NOT music – it’s living life in the telling. A story of artistry, growth and emotion. For those who bore a passion for music which speaks and roars, this trilogy is just not a listen but an experience.
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