Mark de Clive-Lowe

Mark de Clive-Lowe is a Japanese-New Zealander pianist, composer, and electronic music producer whose process-as-performance approach spans over 25 years across genres and continents. Born in New Zealand in 1974, he was a key figure in his formative professional years in London’s early 2000s underground music scene, after which he relocated to Los Angeles in 2008, expanding his jazz-rooted work with a current count of 20 albums and collaborations with artists including Eric Harland, Zakir Hussain and Kamasi Washington. Recent projects have seen Mark deep-diving into his Japanese heritage, exploring ancestral narratives and cultural identity through the fusion of jazz, electronica and soundscape, as featured in his “Heritage” albums, with his Tokyo-based Ronin Arkestra collective and with multi-media savant Daito Manabe. Mark is the soundtrack composer for award-winning experimental short film “Dragon” in collaboration with Good Company Arts (NZ), taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) masters and dance and movement artists from Japan, while his forthcoming album, “Past Present (Tone Poems Across Time)”, captures reflections on family and self-discovery, drawing on field recordings and ambient synth textures from his travels across Japan. Recognized by fellowships from the Japan-US Friendship Commission, KHN Center for the Arts, and Creative NZ Arts Council of New Zealand, Mark is currently working on new projects exploring and interpolating family and ancestry stories from both Japan and New Zealand.