Clive Wright Bio

 
 


Clive Wright,

Guitarist and  principle composer for Desert Sky Music, has been in the music industry for more than 20 years. He is an experienced writer and producer of many genres of music for various media productions , and remains on the cutting edge of todays styles, production techniques and technology.

in recent years he has become a visible contributer to the ambient and electronic music genre ,with his extensive collaborations with ambient music pioneer Harold Budd




Originally from the City of Bath in the U.K., Clive relocated to the United States in 1979 he soon after was a founding member of the band Broken English who placed songs in the 1983 film release ‘Karate Kid’ and later signed a recording deal with polygram under the name ‘Broken Edge’
















Clive at this point had left the group and co-founded another CBS band, Cock Robin.












Cock Robin achieved platinum record sale figures all over Europe and performed on the Johnny Carson and Dick Clark shows back in the U.S. they have recently reformed and have performed and recorded together as recently as 2006


As a writer and musician, Clive has worked with a number of diverse artists such as: Pete Byrne of Naked Eyes, Kim Carnes, Human Drama , members of Tears for Fears and Peter Gabriel.

Since 1987 Clive has worked independently as a composer and producer of artists and of radio and television commercials. He has scored several movies, produced and written with Def Jams Montell Jordan, and ‘Black Eyed Peas’ and worked as a core composer for LA music houses.


In 2004 Clive recorded an album with Harold Budd, famed for his ambient compositions with Brian Eno , Harold and Clive performed live at a KCRW sponsored event at Disney Hall in LA.



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Clive  has since Recorded 2 more ambient collaborations with Harold Budd. ‘Candylion’ and “little Windows’ all 3 albums are available on Darla records. he now has 5 solo ambient albums 4 of which were recorded live . ‘Taqsim to Antlia’ ‘Live Ambient 2 Starjam les Nuages de Paris’ ‘Deluge live ambient 3’ and Live Ambient 4 . ‘Spoke’ a solo studio album was released in April 2012.

Below is a photo of Clive with the Zulluu band in 2013

Cock Robin 2005

Broken English

1981

Clive Wright

2010

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