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Fiercely creative and surprisingly spiritual, Anthony Green of prog-rock band Circa Survive talks to Upasana Chatterjee about #musicworship, seizing the moment and the band’s fifth album.
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oft-spoken and endlessly polite, Anthony Green is at home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with his two dogs, having just put his three sons to bed after a tiring day at the zoo. Regularly sharing personal titbits of his family life on Instagram, it’s evident Green is an immensely doting father and husband, and as one would expect, it pours out into the music he writes. “I tend to write about relationships and those are the greatest relationships that I have,” he admits, pausing. “I would say that they influence me in a way that they remind me of the urgency of a feeling. Little kids are very spontaneous and sporadic, and you never know what’s going to come out of their mouths or what they’re going to do. “Music is beautiful in that way and creating music is beautiful in that way, and for somebody like me who is also very much like a child with ADD, when I get a melody in my head that I really love, I have to record it. I have to somehow put it down so that I can remember it or else it flutters back into the ocean of melodies.” To the community of 138,000-strong Instagram followers welcomed into Green’s world with his #littlegods, Will, Luke and
James, and his wife, his #pixiequeen, Green unashamedly also hashtags many of his photos with #reallove, #realmagic and #musicworship. “For me, #musicworship is just being surrounded by music. There’s a rhythm to everything, you know? There’s a rhythm to the way our blood flows in our body, there’s a rhythm to the way our earth moves. There’s an underlying music that’s kind of encompassing every little thing. When we go out and we listen to music or we put on something that we love to hear and we’re driving around or we create music, we’re sort of saying a prayer to that entity that encompasses all living things.” As he speaks, his fervent passion for what Circa Survive does is unmistakable, and he seems to get lost in his thoughts. “I love making music, I love celebrating music. I think it’s the lifeblood of everything. The vibration of sound and the vibration of all living things are very connected and there’s a sacred melody that runs through life, and when you listen to music and when you play music, when you dance to music or when you just give into it, you’re sort of becoming part of it. It’s my god, and I worship that.”
Five Best Iron Maiden Albums With the release of their new album The Book Of Souls, we go back and highlight our five best Iron Maiden albums:
The Number Of The Beast (1982)
Powerslave (1984)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1998)
When & Where: 18 Sep, The Met Fear Of The Dark (1992)
The Final Frontier (2010)
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