“It’s a slow boiling of the frog.”
Sam Lee speaks to Jim Wirth.
Tales from the river bank: “I see myself as a bridge builder between eras,” says Sam Lee.
What do you think is your big breakthrough on this record?
“For many years I’ve been working with traditional song and trying to find new sound-worlds for old songs. This record has been a big shift because it’s been much more about trying to find a narrative voice. I’ve accepted that I like to write songs and am trying to create a body of work that speaks about my personal, but also our collective relationship, with nature on a poetic, on an ancient, but also very contemporary level.”