Mark de Clive-Lowe - Past Present (Tone Poems Across Time) (2025)

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Tracklist:

1.Embrace 00:00
2.Present Past 03:45
3.Reflection 07:52
4.Revelation 10:42
5.Heart 13:06
6.Acceptance 15:46
7.Forgiveness 20:37
8.Compassion 23:46
9.Past Present 28:50
10.Peace 33:00
11.Gratitude 35:34

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'Past present (tone poems across time)' is Mark de Clive-Lowe's exquisite new solo album and his debut for Greg Boraman's Impressive Collective label in partnership with BBE Music. Previously the pair released the Pharoah Sanders tribute album 'Freedom', and the equally lauded 'Hotel San Claudio' in collaboration with Shigeto & Melanie Charles.

A deeply personal sonic exploration by Mark, "past present" is a reflection on family, heritage, and healing which was created in tandem with retracing his late father’s journey across Japan 70 years ago. The project is a collection of ambient jazz, emotional cinematic soundscapes that weave analog synths with field recordings from Japanese sacred sites and nature locations.

'past present' partially came into existence thanks to the perseverance of producer, percussionist and Mark’s friend Carlos Niño, who after experiencing Mark's multi-layered motifs in the studio and in live contexts over many years explains, "I kept hearing him make an album like this, I kept telling him that he needed to, and that it would be his best album yet. Subtle, poetic, solo, texturally rhythmic, expressive, full of rippling layers, and arrangements representing such profound thoughts, feelings, relationships, and memories".

Mark also took on board Carlos' recommendation of recording the bulk of "past present" at Ken Barrientos’ analog synth studio, 'The Breath' in Pomona, California - where he utilized no less than 22 different keyboards to create the ethereal and engaging soundscapes across all 11 tracks, also intertwining his own field recordings made during a long, explorative stay in Japan.

Being such an individual and personal concept, it was only correct that Mark wrote the extensive album liner notes, to fully illustrate the decades-long backstory to this stunning collection. Mark completes the album's presentation using archive images from his family's private photo collection - an entire process he likens to time travel and signs off to the listener by stating that he hopes "it takes you on your own journey of imagination and reflection, leading to unexpected places, just as it has for me”.

released April 18, 2025

Programmed and Performed on Synthesizers / Instruments at The Breath, Los Angeles:
Arp 2600
Arp Axxe
Black Corporation Deckard’s Dream
Fender Rhodes
Korg Micro-Preset M-500
Kurzweil Midiboard
Lexicon PCM 42
Lexicon PCM 70
Moog Minimoog Model D
Moog Minimoog Voyager
MXR Phase 90
Novation Bass Station II
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Roland Juno-6
Roland Juno-106
Roland JX-3P
Roland RS-202
Roland SH-1
Roland SH-101
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
Solina String Ensemble
Yamaha CP-70

Written, Performed and Produced by Mark de Clive-Lowe

Recorded and Engineered by Ken Barrientos at The Breath, Los Angeles
Field Recordings (various locations, Japan) by Mark de Clive-Lowe
Mixed by Kuniyuki Takahashi
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

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