R&B/Soul
New Zealand
Mark Clive-Lowe
About Mark Clive-Lowe
Composer, producer, DJ, and keyboardist Mark de Clive-Lowe is globally renowned for his uncanny ability to juggle piano, synths, live sampling, and beat-making on the fly. Though his music has centered on jazz, the Japanese New Zealander is an electronic music pioneer who was key in the evolution of broken beat and nu-jazz. He broke through following the international release of 1999's Six Degrees and became an in-demand producer, DJ, session musician, and remixer. His 2007 date, Journey 2 the Light, brought jazz and soul in tight, hooky, impeccably arranged compositions to engage with house, broken beat, and electro. 2013's progressive big-band outing Take the Space Trane featured the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, and 2019's Heritage releases explored the Japanese side of his cultural makeup. De Clive-Lowe and friends paid tribute to Pharoah Sanders on 2022's Freedom as well as on 2023's Hotel San Claudio, with Shigeto and Melanie Charles.
