Clive Wright an English born musician residing near the beautiful Joshua Tree national park in California, from his beginnings as lead guitarist with the platinum selling eighties pop band ‘Cock Robin’ has become a respected artist in the broadly categorized music genre of ambient music. He has arisen to the forefront in the wake of his beautiful collaborations with Harold Budd, whom has long been regarded as the master of this genre. Harold Budd became a pioneer of ambient music in the 1970’s along with Brian Eno, together they had made albums the ‘The Plateau of Mirror’ and ‘The Pearl’ which are regarded as classics.
Since his 3 albums with Harold ‘A Song For Lost Blossoms’ in 2008, “Candylion” in 2009 and “Little Windows” in 2010, Clive has produced 3 live ambient albums “Taqsim to Antlia” which was recorded in August 2010 at an astronomy presentation at the famed Integratron in Landers,California. “Live Ambient 2, Starjams, Le Nuages De Paris” which was again, performed to a Live Astronomy presentation in Joshua Tree, and “Deluge Live Ambient 3” recorded live before New York film maker, Jonathan Bermans cameras in March 2011.
Clives highly acclaimed latest release “Spoke” is a studio recording ,and is often regarded as
his best work to date.
Clive has also recorded and written tracks with “the Black Eyed Peas” and Montel Jordan, and has also won awards for his music score for commercials and film, check out a compilation of his work on youtube
Clives music is often featured on Sirius XM, Stephen Hill’s ‘Hearts Of Space’ radio program and also their east coast competitor John Diliberto’s ‘Echoes’
“Babylon Karari” a track from Clive Wrights album “Spoke” A Video directed by Dan O’Dowd, and featuring Miss India International Preity Uupala
Taqsim To Antlia, title track from the live album recorded at the integratron
Taqsim To Antlia available on Darla
‘ One of the most beautiful, most restful albums of 2010, a quite masterpiece’
Joseph Kyle ‘Daggerzine’