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Roger K. Green is a musical artist and academic who lives in Denver, CO. He directs the Center for Critical & Cultural Theory (2022-Present). He is a former guitarist for The Czars. Since the break-up of The Czars, Green has released several self-titled albums. He has also produced and performed guitar on debut albums for Esmé Patterson (All Princes, Greater Than, 2012) and Joe Sampson (Kill Our Friends, Fellow Creature, 2011). Green holds PhDs in English (Rhetoric & Theory) and Religious Studies. He's the author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens (Palgrave, 2019).

Early Life
Green was born in Englewood, Colorado. He attended Columbine High School where he joined the band Idle Mind with fellow songwriters Patrick Park, Sera Cahoone, and Jeff Linsenmaier. The band recorded a few albums, including an unreleased album with Kurt Ralske of Ultra Vivid Scene. Idle Mind played regularly in the 1990s Denver music scene with local bands such and The Apples in Stereo, The Czars, Christie Front Drive, and Space Team Electra.

Musical Career
After Idle Mind split up in 1997, Jeff Linsenmaier asked Green to join his other band, The Czars, who had just finished recording Before...But Longer for Bella Union records, produced by former Cocteau Twins bass player, Simon Raymonde. With The Czars, Green both played guitar and received production credit for The Ugly People vs The Beautiful People (2001) and Goodbye (2004).

Green released a debut solo recording as a split CD, What Would This Be For? with Erin Roberts of Porlolo (Public Service Records, 2004). Following his departure from The Czars after I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (Bella Union, 2005), Green released a self-titled album under his own name and played guitar for his musical mentor, the American trumpeter and cornetist, Ron Miles (Stone / Blossom, Sterling Circle, 2006). Green was commissioned in 2006 by Adam Lerner to write a Composition for Typewriters to celebrate the opening of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar in Lakewood, Colorado.

In 2007, Green released Clear Running Water, an eclectic album of half original songs and half covers of a wide variety of artists such as Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Albert Ayler, and Yoko Ono. He also appeared on the Porlolo album, Meadows. He then entered a PhD program in English at the University of Denver where he met creative writers such as Selah Saterstrom, Laird Hunt, and Eleni Sikelianos. Green released his album Harder to Tell in 2011. Increasingly intrigued with studying songwriting, he decided to produce albums for a couple of close friends in the Denver music scene, Joe Sampson and Esmé Patterson. Laird Hunt also asked Green to compose ambient music to accompany his readings for the re-release of nis novel The Impossibly. Drawing on constraint-based writing techniques from the Oulipo movement, Green drew on local improvisers such as Janet Feder and Mark Harris to create The Impossibly Soundtrack (2012).

Green composed original music for visual artist, Nick Cave for the Biennial of the Americas in 2014. 2014 also saw the release of The Best of The Czars (Bella Union) and a largely improvisational album, Alive Hue, which grew out of Green's doctoral research on psychedelic aesthetics.

In 2016, Green collaborated with poets Anne Waldman (Untethered, Fast Speaking Music, 2016) and Eleni Sikelianos (Make Yourself Happy, 2017). Green arranged music and produced recordings for both poets. The free jazz album, Peril (2016) documents the musicians from the poets' recording. He released Vampires on Sine Mountain with the synthesizer artist, Sin Mountain, as well as another collaboration with Anne Waldman, A Dark Flower for the End Times (Meep Records, 2020). In 2022, Green released Enter as You Leave, an album of songs in the production style typical of his work with The Czars. 2024 will see the release of Trees Inside Out, a collaboration with Myshel Prasad from Space Team Electra.