Lee Clarke

Lee Clarke is a producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Philadelphia. Early musical experiences with his grandmother, a NYU-trained pianist, paved the way for formal study in jazz and synthesizers at University of the Arts. Inspired by depth explorations in harmony and beat-making through the works of Stevie Wonder and J Dilla, he went on to arrange and produce for artists in the Philadelphia and New York areas. Projects with long term collaborators Kingsley Ibeneche and Ivy Sole have been featured on Pitchfork, NPR, The Fader, okayplayer and Afropunk. His first solo project, Off Nights, was released on Astro Nautico in 2020. His latest project Genes, a beat tape, draws on themes of memory, degradation and the evolution of sound and bloodlines.