RELEASES
Unaccompanied Vol. 3: Didaktika
Released 11.1.23: A love letter to treatises and tutors that are foundational to the art of the viola da gamba, UNACCOMPANIED VOL. 3: DIDAKTIKA documents three decades of study, thought, and pleasure found in some overlooked music.
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Unaccompanied: Volume Two
Released 10.19.21: Drawn from an anonymous German manuscript dating to 1674, UNACCOMPANIED: VOLUME TWO is a study of the beautiful music, performance practices, and their interplay at the dawn of the virtuosic viol repertoire in Germany and France.
Portrait of Melancholy
Released 6.4.2021: A collection of masterworks spanning from the renaissance to today, PORTRAIT OF MELANCHOLY is a musical journal of the uncertain days of 2020 and 2021.
Division
Released 12.18.2020: Originally recorded in 2010 with lutenists John Lenti and David Walker, Josh Lee traces the use of variation (aka Division) in the virtuosic music for bass viol in this stunningly remastered release.
Trios for One
Released 9.25.2020: What started as an idea for a collaborative project quickly became impossible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee found refuge in the studio, working by himself to make this music come to life amidst the isolation of quarantine.
Unaccompanied: Volume One
Released 11.29.2019: After over 20 years as a fixture on concert stages Josh Lee turned inward to connect to the beauty and power of the viol as a true solo instrument, featuring works by masters of the past as well as by Lee himself.
Arranger|Composer|Producer
Josh Lee is an arranger, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who got his musical start playing double bass in the community orchestra in his hometown, Spartanburg, South Carolina. After graduating from the Peabody Conservatory of Music Josh quickly became a fixture on concert stages across the globe for over two decades, performing with artists and ensembles ranging from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Radical Face. Experienced as a performer and writer in both classical and pop contexts, as well as being an experienced session producer and editor, Josh finds himself at home on either side of the microphone.
This piece began with the thought of a lake and the sky as beings -- animate beings who were lovers separated by one's life up above while the other was forever trapped on the ground below. The only way the two could be together was when it rained and a bit of the sky fell to touch the surface, each splash, wave, and ripple a moment of their fleeting dance. The piece is framed as though there's a narrator, evidenced by the upward g minor arpeggio that opens and closes the piece. All that happens between is the duo's desperate reunion across the surface of the water, one they know will end as soon as it begins.
Josh worked with indie veteran Radical Face to re-imagine “Welcome Home” for the ten year anniversary edition of the iconic album “Ghost.” Using a combination of live tracking and sample libraries Josh worked with the artist to create a lush expansion of this world-wide favorite.
Josh Lee performs his composition, "Introit,” from his album “Unaccompanied: Volume One.”
Josh was approached by Nettwerk Music Group to help label artists Machine Heart take a beautifully intense acoustic performance even further.