out , it brought perspective . I got into a very retrospective mood like that , OKAY , we are in 2021 now . I was just looking back at my last 6 years to how the journey has been like . We are constantly on the move , I could speak for a lot of artists , my friends you know , it ’ s things like these that put you in that retrospective mood , alright 6 years ago I was over there and the love has been like so constant and amazing . I am so grateful to everybody that cares about my music . It ’ s extremely humbling .
And it ’ s also a huge responsibility , right ? Now there ’ s more expectation from people .
Although I ’ ll tell you that ’ s always been something , I ’ ve tried to mull away from a little bit . That is a really good point that you ’ ve presented . I would love to talk about it . For me , people ’ s expectations and people ' s understanding of my music is very different . Everybody perceives my music in a different / certain way . When I started writing music , I wrote it for me in the hopes that people would enjoy . Even today , I cannot let people come in the way of how I feel about my music . Today , I need to continue feeling if I am enjoying it . As narcissistic as it may sound , it needs to be this format in order to put out music that ’ ll cater to the crowd . The moment I start thinking about people , I try to stay away from social media and stuff , I don ’ t immerse myself in the feedback , I think it ’ s something that will affect the way I make music . I might have an audience today that loves my music but I would rather have an audience that likes me . My only thing is if I talk about the audience , I would like them to evolve with me , because I know that my sound is also changing a lot .
You were talking about your sound , so coming to your music and your sound , we ’ ve been trained in classical music and we can see that influence in music . How did you decide that this was your sound , this was your music ?
This is a very subconscious decision .
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For me , making music is like how we go through something and our first reaction is to tell our friends , music is basically expression . I purely look at it like my expression in music , my output is music . If I am feeling sad today or happy today , then my output would be around those emotions . Over time , with my learning of Indian classical music and my influence of hip-hop , what probably happened in my subconscious mind , the culmination took place . My format would ’ ve been western but the content was very classically inclined . That formula probably must ’ ve happened inside my head . I just focused on writing and not how I was writing , coming through as a flow .
It ' s just a set of influences in your life that make you . That ’ s why probably I ’ ve now started listening and learning other styles and a lot more that would probably inspire more crazy culminations in the future . The idea is to keep a constant set of learning , haha ..
We currently live in an age where collaborations have become a huge thing , especially post-pandemic we see a lot of artists collaborating with each other . You ’ ve also done a few collaborations with different artists , so what is your take on them and how do you pick the artist you want to collaborate with ?
See , collaboration for me is a new world . I don ’ t think I am the best person to collaborate with . I am usually the villain here ; I am very nit-picky about the little things and it ’ s always been the case with me . But I got very lucky , so my album with Seedhe Maut and Nucleya both happened very effortlessly . Both acts I had a very good sync with and once that match sort of takes place in the first go , we are just like grabbing chai and talking about things and the next thing we know is that we ’ ve written down a couple of lines . That format doesn ’ t feel like we ’ re collaborating , it ’ s how I write music . But it ’ s so rare to find that , when you find like-minded people , things are effortless , coming in sync , it almost feels like me writing music solo . That ’ s how it ’ s worked for me in the past , for the longest time , up until last year , it was all about establishing my sound , I was still figuring out what it is that Ritviz wanted to do . I felt like my solo stuff had to be established before I collaborated with others . So last year , I felt like okay cool , I have an understanding of what Ritviz is , but what Ritviz can be is where the collaboration started and my sound with Seedhe Maut or Nucleya together is a new sound , I and Nucleya are Baaraat . Together we are a new sound . Collaborations for me is exciting because it ’ s two sounds meeting each other and it ’ s the third sound .
Could talk a little bit about Baaraat , upcoming songs from the album
We ’ ve released Saathi and Ari Ari , and 6 more songs are yet to be released . The rest of the songs will be coming out over the course of the weeks till October , so we are going to try and wrap this up as soon as we can and then we will get on with the Seedhe Maut album .
Will we get to hear your music in mainstream Bollywood ?
Umm ... Maybe . Haha . There are a couple of projects in the pipeline . It ' s refreshing to know in every sector everywhere , in the course of last 3-4 years being in the music industry , having learnt whatever I ’ ve learned about the film industry and the fashion industry is that there are like-minded people everywhere so there is a scope of collaboration in all the fields . So , it ’ s epic . It ’ s lovely to be in this position that I can collaborate with some epic minds . But to answer your question again – Maybe , haha .
As an artist , could you break down your process of making music ? What is it that comes to your mind first , what are you inspired by ? If you can just take