Winner of the Songlines Europe Award 2016, The Fade in Time is very much a 21st –century album. Impassioned and hugely ambitious in scope, it is a major statement from an artist and group who extend the borders of traditional English/Scottish/European music beyond national boundaries to encompass Bollywood beats, Polynesian textures and contemporary classical music.

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The Fade in Time (sampler)

Taken from Mercury Prize-nominated Sam Lee's new Album, 'The Fade in Time' 
released 16th March:

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Lord Gregory

Taken from Mercury Prize-nominated Sam Lee's new Album, 'The Fade in Time' 
released June 16th on Thirty Tigers/RED/Sony
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Johnny O' The Brine

Late in the evening on 19th May, 1924, the BBC made its first live wildlife outside broadcast, from the cellist Beatrice Harrison's garden. A nightingale joined in, singing as she played. Listeners were so entranced by this duet that the cello and nightingale concerts were broadcast annually, eagerly awaited by listeners around the globe.

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of this remarkable musical event, the folk musician Sam Lee finds, somewhere in southern England, "some melodious plot/ Of beechen green, and shadows numberless", as Keats puts it in his 'Ode to a Nightingale', and himself sings "of summer with full throated ease". Sam, with the cellist Francesca Ter-Berg, violinist Flora Curzon and viola player Laurel Pardue, sings songs that feature nightingales, such as 'The Tan Yard Side', to the nightingales as they sing in the thickets.

Sam considers our relationship with this amazing songster, which itself appears in so many songs and poems, and we hear, too, Beatrice's reminiscence of that first nightingale broadcast, 90 years ago.

Producer: Julian May
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044m17b

Sam Lee: Singing With The Nightingales BBC Radio 4 19.5.14

Debut track from the Mercury Prize-nominated Sam Lee's second album The Fade In Time, released March 2015. 

Winner of the Songlines Europe Award 2016, The Fade in Time is very much a 21st century album. Impassioned and hugely ambitious in scope, it is a major statement from an artist and group who extend the borders of traditional English/Scottish/European music beyond national boundaries to encompass Bollywood beats, Polynesian textures and contemporary classical music.

The Fade in Time

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Blackbird

Radio 4 Front Row Sam Lee Meets Kirsty Lang 6th July 2012

This live interview and Session involved me taking over the last hour of Tom Robinson's show and scheduling the music. featuring some of my favorite bands
songs inc:
Sam Lee : Ballad of George Collins
This Is The Kit : Earthquakes
Sam Amidon : What Put The Blood
Super Best Friends Club : So Am I Me Too
Seamus Cater & ViljAm Nuybaka : The Folk Music
Lisa Knapp : Shipping Song
Gerry Diver's Speech Project : When in New York feat Joe Culley
Mary Hampton : Benjamin Bowmaneer

BBC6 Sam Lee Curates with Tom Robinson 17.11.12

My 10 mins in the easy chair with the might Libby grilling me on my Traveler and Gyspy song collectings

BBC Radio 4 Mid Week Libby Purves 10.10.12

BBC6 Music Cerys Matthews Live Session 25.11.12

'The Ballad of George Collins' (Original) is taken from Sam Lee's Mercury Nominated Album 'Ground of Its Own'

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Remix By Cosmo Sheldrake
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Sam Lee - The Ballad Of George Collins (Cosmo Sheldrake Remix)

'The Ballad of George Collins' (Original) is taken from Sam Lee's Mercury Nominated Album 'Ground of Its Own'

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Remix by You Are Wolf 
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Sam Lee - The Ballad Of George Collins (You Are Wolf Remix)

'The Ballad of George Collins' (Original) is taken from Sam Lee's Mercury Nominated Album 'Ground of Its Own'

Available to buy from:

iTunes (Mercury Prize version): http://bit.ly/XXAtFM
iTunes (standard version): http://bit.ly/RgBB5L
Amazon: http://amzn.to/XTAx9m

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Remix by The Memory Band
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Sam Lee - The Ballad of George Collins (The Memory Band mix)

'The Ballad of George Collins' (Original) is taken from Sam Lee's Mercury Nominated Album 'Ground of Its Own'

Available to buy from:

iTunes (Mercury Prize version): http://bit.ly/XXAtFM
iTunes (standard version): http://bit.ly/RgBB5L
Amazon: http://amzn.to/XTAx9m

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Remix by L'Étranger
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Sam Lee - The Ballad of George Collins (L'Étranger Remix)

From debut album Ground of Its Own, released June 2012.

Sam’s Mercury Award nominated 2012 debut album is a work several years in conception which brought together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release mixed by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of the British Isles.

The Ballad of George Collins

Arranged by Lee / Eisenberg - composed/produced/performed with the Tank and Trumpet Duo - Steve Chadwick &amp; Saul Eisenberg - mixed by Les Mommsen from A1 productions

On Yonders Hill with 'Tank and Trumpet'

Taken from Sam Lee's debut album, Ground of Its Own. Released June 2012.

Sam’s Mercury Award nominated 2012 debut album is a work several years in conception which brought together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release mixed by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of the British Isles.

Goodbye My Darling

Pre-order Sam's forthcoming album here: https://slee.lnk.to/songdreaming
Released March 15th 2024
Tickets for my UK tour in March/April 2024 here: https://www.samleesong.co.uk/live

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