{"id":617,"date":"2022-04-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/04\/27\/richie-quake-talented-up-and-comer-and-leader-of-a-new-nyc-music-scene\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:30:00","slug":"richie-quake-talented-up-and-comer-and-leader-of-a-new-nyc-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/04\/27\/richie-quake-talented-up-and-comer-and-leader-of-a-new-nyc-music-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie Quake, Talented Up-and-comer And Leader Of A New NYC Music Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the introduction to her masterpiece on 1980s New York bohemia,<em> The Ballad of Sexual Dependency<\/em>, the photographer Nan Goldin writes, \u201cI want to show my life as it is. Without glamorization and without glorification.\u201d This commitment to neither life\u2019s imperfections nor its grandiosity is the driving force behind the upcoming debut album from Richie Quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RQ_Crawl_BTS-JESSEDEFLORIO-21-768x509.jpg\" alt=\"Richie Quake\" class=\"wp-image-413261\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Jesse De Florio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the working title \u201cGlam\u201d and a tentative summer release date, Richie\u2019s work is a treatise not on life\u2019s extremes but on its regularity and consistency. Goldin\u2019s work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/07\/04\/nan-goldins-the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency\">documented<\/a> the simple act of being. To her what people did was less important than the fact that they simply were. Richie Quake, in his 21st century version of Goldin\u2019s downtown New York lifestyle hopes to replicate the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I want to show what my world looks like, Richie says. Without glamorization or glorification, just kind of exactly as it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who is Richie Quake?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quake is a musician from Brooklyn teetering on the edge of industry success, having recently signed to Nas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/massappeal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mass Appeal Records<\/a>. He has an effortless cool that either comes from, or led to, his musical upbringing as a New York nightlife DJ. Wearing a white hoodie and black bucket hat, from which peeked his dark brown curls, he has an unaffected nonchalance that oscillates between the warmth of a best friend and the aspirational distance of an older cousin you idolize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His indie pop music features down tempo synths, a penchant for lyrical simplicity and a prevalence of rock instrumentation, all of which forge a unique sound. A promising start for an artist heading into their debut label release. More than his music what Richie possesses is a direction, a certitude in his artistic vision. He knows what stories he wants to tell. They\u2019re about him, his life, his acts of being\u2014just like Goldin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Crawl (feat. Anna Shoemaker)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/09X44dWv4yXjDk7c0EvoPS?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Crawl is the latest single from Richie Quake&#8217;s upcoming debut album &#8220;Glam&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There&#8217;s no songs about having a million dollars and being at the club and there&#8217;s no songs about something that&#8217;s like extremely dramatic, or extremely high, or extremely low, Quake relays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Richie Quake\u2019s Debut Album \u201cGlam\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I asked him about the new album, he was unusually hesitant to share. His answers suddenly interrupted by long pauses mid-sentence, a wandering gaze away from the Zoom camera, and a &#8211;for once &#8212; slightly awkward, but still endearing, nervous tilt of the head. He finally cut himself off to say \u201che had a whole thing\u201d for the album but was unsure how much he wanted to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cwhole thing\u201d was Goldin, the Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and New York art scene\u2019s past and present. As soon as Goldin came up, Richie\u2019s mannerisms reverted back to his usual quiet confidence, his knowing eyes and light smile perennial etched on his lips. It was clear he was sharing a long thought about ideas and that these ideas were the organizing principle of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This is my life, Richie says with a deliberate sincerity. This is my friends. This is my relationships. Really what I\u2019m trying to show is really raw humanity in a way that&#8217;s not trying to posture as anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or as Goldin would say, &#8220;This is not a bleak world but one in which there is an awareness of pain, a quality of introspection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/quakefeb21-1-768x1087.jpg\" alt=\"Richie Quake sitting on a couch\" class=\"wp-image-403581\" width=\"459\" height=\"650\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the vision for <em>Glam<\/em> is an introspective, yet expository, examination of Richie\u2019s own life then it must also include the people he shares it with; the friends with whom he shares his own self, which ultimately comprises the album\u2019s creative spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>These pictures may be an invitation to my world, writes Goldin, but they were taken so that I could see the people in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, Goldin\u2019s work reverberating throughout Richie\u2019s. &#8220;How I relate to my feelings, you know, is by characterizing them in in a relationship,&#8221; Quake analyzes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The new New York Music Scene<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The self-described \u201cemotional guy\u201d needs the other people in his life to tell the story of himself. It\u2019s a beautiful sentiment, that were it not said with self-effacing honesty, earnestness &#8212; and frankly, charm &#8212; it might indicate a lack of self-actualization or even co-dependency. Instead, it showcases an artist who is deeply in touch with the core themes of his inspirations. Goldin once said her photography \u201c[came] out of relationships, not observation.&#8221; Her talents and creativity extended beyond her work, much like Richie\u2019s. Both contributed to the artistic milieu of New York. Goldin through her almost radical openness and Richie through his own natural gregariousness. In other words, he\u2019s such a cool dude that he\u2019s building a whole scene around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Richie really started to cultivate the scene,&#8221; explains Morning Silk, one of Richie\u2019s producers and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morning Silk is a slightly spacey, experimental musician whose talent as a producer is only exceeded by his admiration for Richie. The two connected through digital happenstance after Morning Silk commented on a Tik Tok Richie made. Richie then took the initiative to scroll through Morning Silk\u2019s profile, get a feel for his music and invited him to a studio session. The two met for the first time at Morning Silk\u2019s makeshift recording studio in Ridgewood, Queens, where they recorded \u201cNever See You\u201d. The song would make its way onto Richie\u2019s latest EP, <em>Voyager<\/em>. Within two months of meeting one another they would record the entire EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Voyager\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0KFTrQV0ZvnDiogu64B1MD?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Richie Quake released the EP &#8220;Voyager&#8221; in 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Richie\u2019s stature in the New York music scene grew it brought a newfound drawing power, allowing him to handpick his creative partners. He never cared about their industry status, or even if they were talented\u2014that was table stakes\u2014he cared about their commitment. That is the true entry price to the nascent \u201calternative rock, indie pop scene.&#8221; And it is a price that must be paid daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I float around with a scene of New York creative people who are just all artists,&#8221; Richie explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t really know anybody who has a job, a nine to five, like a career. Everyone I know is kind of just always in the pursuit of making art and in the pursuit of being creative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another of Richie\u2019s\u00a0 frequent collaborators and recent friends is Middle Part. A long haired, slightly schlubby artist whose \u201csuper fresh friendship\u201d with Richie regularly consists of \u201cthree-day sleepovers.&#8221; If Richie is the scene\u2019s guide, then Middle Part is its compass, pointing towards artistic integrity. His disheveled bedroom has the words \u201cMiddle Part\u201d spray painted in giant black letters above his bed as if the constant presence of his stage name were a daily reminder of the of the artistic commitment his adopted identity entailed. His gruff attitude belies his deeply emotional music (his superbly crafted single \u201c&amp;Cry\u201d surpassed one million Spotify streams in March) and infectious dedication to an artist\u2019s life. &#8220;[Posers] don&#8217;t live their art,\u201d Middle Part inveighs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> They don&#8217;t actually work hard enough to be considered an artist. You can make music, you can be a painter, you can be a photographer, whatever the fuck but, if you&#8217;re not living and dying by it, then what&#8217;s the point?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intensity and matter-of-factness with which he issued his proclamation felt like this was a shared sentiment among the members of New York\u2019s newest music scene, even if the words may have been his alone. It was hard not to feel inspired by his assuredness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morning Silk learned to adopt that same dedication from Richie; who was, yet again, guiding his peers, shaping the burgeoning scene in the image of his own values. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever do something musically that you don&#8217;t want to do,&#8221; said Morning Silk, recounting Richie\u2019s advice. &#8220;Don&#8217;t work with artists you don&#8217;t want to work with. It&#8217;s a waste of time. Even if you get paid it doesn&#8217;t matter. [Richie] was on the brink of being super broke because he did that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a classic mark of the creative lifestyle, to believe in an artistic vision even when tangible, everyday realties such as money risk compromising it. If that\u2019s the norm for passionate artists, then being enough of a visionary or talent to spearhead a movement is not. Especially in New York where, since before even the days of Goldin, creatives aspire to participate in an arts scene much less establish one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When he&#8217;s in a space, you feel comfortable, cool,&#8221; confessed an adoring Morning Silk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Whenever he&#8217;s around you it feels right. It feels like you&#8217;re doing the right thing, like you&#8217;re in the right place. I feel like that&#8217;s the best way to describe it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richie did so because, aside from his obvious talent, he\u2019s charismatic to the point of inspiring devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a testament to Richie\u2019s qualities as an artist that his collaborators have so fully invested themselves in his own creative vision. But equally an endorsement of the person and his ability to inspire their personal lives as well as their musical lives. The unglamorized \u201cself\u201d that Richie is so fixated on transfusing into his music is of an individual so brimming with confidence that it permeates those in his orbit. Through sheer surety he\u2019s able to alter the self of others. Were Goldin able to photograph Richie and Morning Silk in the recording studio her camera might also capture the invisible shedding of one man\u2019s insecurities through camaraderie alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Richie\u2019s Distinct Sound<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This indescribable quality he possesses saturates his music, with a distinctiveness as palpable as the one that characterizes the musician. Simply put, it is a vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not in the contemporary sense, co-opted to describe life\u2019s mundanities \u201cthat latte gave me bad vibes\u201d or \u201cthis outfit has good vibes.\u201d But in the genuine literary sense: it\u2019s an emotional state felt by, and shared with, others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The melancholy infused pop listenability of Richie\u2019s music is the observable, corporeal manifestation of this vibe. But it comes from his talent for identifying the best qualities from different musical genres\u2014R&amp;B\u2019s crooning, pop\u2019s capacity for earworms, rock\u2019s dramatic guitar riffs\u2014and combining them into a cohesive sound. This genuine genre-blending makes his music not a hodge-podge of influences but a distillation of inspirations. He highlights the strengths of his source material without ever weakening his own originality, making his music more Six Million Dollar Man than Frankenstein\u2019s monster. As a result, Richie\u2019s music contains not just uniqueness but a novel uniqueness. Something so new that as of now, it cannot be accurately described. In fact, it will likely be used to describe other music in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chedda, Richie\u2019s energetic sound engineer on <em>Glam <\/em>and <em>Voyager<\/em> once described <em>Glam<\/em>\u2019s first single, <a href=\"https:\/\/nysmusic.com\/site\/2022\/02\/18\/richie-quake-delivers-a-hymn-for-bad-hookups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThat\u2019s Not Love\u201d<\/a>, with an oddly specific but apt comparison\u2014a love story gone wrong but that he, nonetheless, longs for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I feel like it&#8217;s one of those movies that the whole plotline is based on this dysfunctional love between two people in New York City smoking cigarettes and staying up way too late and doing-some-reckless-ass-shit type relationship. But it works. And it&#8217;s beautiful in its own way. And in the end, it just, somehow works out. And [you say] \u2018damn, I want that type of love.<\/p><cite>Chedda, Producer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: That&amp;apos;s Not Love!\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/60jmOKUUeGFcniQ0SnPYHY?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The familiarity Richie has with New York isn\u2019t just lip service from his affable producer. For Chedda the source of the signature Richie Quake sound&nbsp;is precisely his ability to meld the culture of New York scene with his own music. Richie is a part of the vast talent and creativity that characterize the city\u2019s melting pot\u2014hip hop, Village bohemia, Brooklyn hipsters, and LES skaters\u2014all of which are perfectly understood and delicately balanced by Richie in a two minute and forty-one second song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richie is so in tune with and indebted to, New York itself that for the release of <em>Glam<\/em> he\u2019s considering issuing a magazine &#8212; also titled Glam &#8212; dedicated to New York life. The idea isn\u2019t just to honor the scene but to pay homage to it as the source of his own work. In essence, \u201cGlam\u201d the magazine, would serve as an abstract for <em>Glam<\/em>, the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Glam<\/em> is a love letter to creative collaboration and artistic liberation because it was birthed from it. Richie says he \u201cfeels like an executive producer\u201d on the album, bringing artists together and guiding them towards a shared objective. By loosening the previously controlling and virtually secretive nature of his recording process he\u2019s shed the insecurities that often plague young artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ThatsNotLove_final_RQ_v2-768x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for Richie Quake single &quot;That's Not Love!&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-403580\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;That&#8217;s Not Love&#8221; is the first single from Richie Quake&#8217;s debut album &#8220;Glam&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The bouncing of ideas is what provides a lot of clarity,&#8221; Richie said stolidly. &#8220;I would say the best part is there&#8217;s not a lot of dwelling. You&#8217;re not like, \u2018Is this good? Is this bad? What do I do here?\u2019 You always have somebody to ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Triangle<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards the end of our interview Richie explained, with great sincerity and a few laughs, what he called the triangle analogy. He said that often in an artist\u2019s life the people they work with can either be their friends, be successful, or make great music. The conventional thinking is that it\u2019s only possible to obtain two of the triangle\u2019s three sides, a compromise always looming. For once though, Richie feels he has all three and when something so rare and potentially fleeting crosses an artist\u2019s path &#8212; especially right before their debut album &#8212; it\u2019s worth safeguarding. Like Goldin with her camera in her bohemian enclave, it\u2019s a lifestyle that demands art be lived and shared not simply created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a cool way to be,\u201d Richie mused, with a distinct air of gratitude. &#8220;I hang out with artists every day. The only people that I see and hang out with are other artists that I like and that I\u2019m inspired by.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Glam <\/em>is an endeavor that stretches beyond Spotify streams, venue bookings, or merch sales. It will leave behind something more eternal that will get stitched into the fabric of the city. Ultimately, Richie tried and succeeded at making New York a little more creative. &#8220;It\u2019s kind of what I always wanted my life to be when I idealized the life of an artist,&#8221; Richie ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you have a life committed to, and supported by, art, then, at the end, does the industry success matter? Even if, judging by the music, it\u2019s likely coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to her masterpiece on 1980s New York bohemia, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the photographer Nan Goldin writes, \u201cI want to show my life as it is. 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