“I’m not really a multi-instrumentalist,” says musician Robbie Lee, speaking to Andy Hamilton in The Wire 456, “just an instrumentalist with a many-tentacled, shapeshifting instrument.” Lee plays and records with sopranino saxophone, contrabass recorder, tuning forks, baroque flutes, chalumeau or Renaissance clarinet, and many more instruments besides – “My goal is to play as much like myself with whatever tools I have”, he continues.

Lee's Wire playlist features two previously unheard tracks from his upcoming duo album with sound artist and musician Lea Bertucci, as well as two outtakes from recent releases; solo album Prismatist [“Noble Rot”] and Loss And Gain by Ilgenfritz/Chase/Lee trio.

“The other tracks are all from upcoming projects that are finished and in the release pipeline for the future”, Lee explains. “Two with more obscure artists – UK violinist Max Baillie, and Swedish drummer Hampus Öhman-Frölund – and one track from an ongoing collaboration with Henry Kaiser. Also a collaborative trio called Earth Room, that will have an album this year. I threw in a short bass flute solo [“You're Cellophane”] that I love, from a new work-in-progress.”

Read Lee's interview in full in The Wire 456. Subscribers can also read the article online via the digital archive.