Music

You can buy Kelvin's albums from Doinky Doodles!, 33, Bali Lane,
nearest MRT : Bugis Junction, Nearest building : Raffles Hospital.
For the 2010 albums, you can also listen and buy the copies online at http://kelvintan.bandcamp.com/

2011

Below is an audio track from each of Kelvin's 2011 albums. ( not playable on mobile)
To purchase them, please visit Doinky Doodles!, 33 Bali Lane (2nd Floor), Singapore.
If you are living overseas, and would like to purchase these albums, please email Joo at: joo@siajoohiang.com. Thank you!

Below The Abyss - the very first album, revisited

Vocals and guitars by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios.
Album art by Sia Joo Hiang. Aporia 100.

1. Talking to you
2. Troubled Times ( for Krishnan)
3. Nothing Done
4. You're gone
5. Home ( for Jacq)
6. The Dove
7. World Gone Crazy
8. Ronnie's song
9. Wastelands
10. The Ballad of Nick and Tim

Bound by Affection - songs for Kenny and Selina

Vocals and acoustic guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios.
Album art by Rossalyn Tan. Aporia 96.

1. 274-C
2. Family is hard
3. Your capability to forgive
4. Lisa
5. The Beautiful Game
6. Selina
7. We are family
8. Kenny and Selina

Lost songs, now redeemed.

Vocals and acoustic guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios.
Album art by Weng Pixin. Aporia 89.

1. The Leaves
2. Song and Dance Man
3. Nowhere Bound
4. Song For The Down And Out
5. Everything Falls Apart
6. Halt Alive
7. Peace of Mind
8. Stand In The Darkness
9. No Longer Found

Ah Boy, me and TNT!

Vocals by Kelvin Tan. Drum and bass samples by Wong Keng Kok.
All music composed by Kelvin Tan and Wong Keng Kok. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Rossalyn Tan, featuring sculpture by Stanley, Savanna, Jacob, Faith and Kimberly. Aporia 98.

1. Bend bringing
2. TNT
3. The Horror
4. The meaning of meaning
5. She, Eternity
6. Scrutiny
7. This strange act of perceiving
8. Everything

Together, naturally.

Electric guitar and effects by Kelvin Tan. Electric keyboards by Delfi Esfandi.
All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and Delfi Esfandi. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Weng Pixin. Aporia 88.

1. Mr. Esfandi
2. Remember when we first met?
3. We laid the groove and never looked back
4. Hard Times Overturned
5. Delfi and Oaky
6. K + D
7. If it wasn't for Jeremy
8. Getting the hang of it
9. Peace and Joy to you both!

Solitude, in spite of

Vocals and acoustic guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Rossalyn Tan. Aporia 94.

1. Drowning inside
2. Making sense of time
3. Useless Heart
4. Packed up with my blues
5. Unprotected
6. She cools me down ( for J)
7. Another way
8. Indifference

Tributaries

Acoustic guitars by Kelvin Tan and Jeremy Sharma. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and Jeremy Sharma. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Sia Joo Hiang. Aporia 102.

1. Duchamp
2. Cage
3. Ives
4. Robert Johnson
5. Tributaries

Talkin' True, Lightnin' Blues!

Vocals and classical guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Weng Pixin, based on a photograph of Kelvin playing in North Korea in 1998. Aporia 92.

1. The Evolution Song
2. The most boring women in the world
3. Strawberry Prats
4. Too Modern
5. Rent's too high
6. We're studying too much
7. The Anti-Elitist Song
8. Bus Life
9. Passion

The Heart

Vocals, guitars and guitar loops by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Sia Joo Hiang. Aporia 101.

1. The Breeze
2. Gandhi
3. The Heart
4. Shape of a dove
5. Eradicated
6. Think too much
7. Loved

The Taipei Shuttle and how to use it

ITouch software by Kelvin Tan. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Rossalyn Tan, featuring masks made by class of the very awesome 1.2 2011. Aporia 93.

1. I took the Guo Guang bus and made my way to the YMCA near the Taipei bus station, my heart racing with anticipation
2. Shilin Market
3. Taking the train to Taichung and back
4. Funky, but in a Danshui way

Love has to be so hard - 10 versions of "The Facing You Blues"

Vocals and acoustic guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Sia Joo Hiang. Aporia 99.

Re:Visions

Electric guitar and guitar effects by Kelvin Tan. Electric keyboards by Delfi Esfandi. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and Delfi Esfandi. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Weng Pixin. Aporia 90.

1. Unhurled
2. Radiant
3. Nandre
4. The comets have souls
5. Dawn appears in times of doubt
6. Transitoriness

Evocations for Solace

Vocals by Kelvin Tan. Electric keyboards by Delfi Esfandi. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and Delfi Esfandi. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Rossalyn Tan. Aporia 97.

1. Paradoxes
2. Into
3. No comfort
4. Accountable
5. Chosen
6. I Hear
7. Reason for it all
8. tum-tsk-tum-tsk-tum
9. Ships

Homages

Electric guitar and effects by Kelvin Tan. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Weng Pixin. Aporia 91.

1. Jaco, you're much missed
2. In search of the Garrison, Blanton and Chambers
3. May Bolden's spirit remain
4. John and Alice together in heaven
5. Miles and Krishna talk about transcendence
6. We rejoice in the knowledge of the soul that music brings

The Souls of Old Harbours

Vocals and acoustic guitar by Kelvin Tan. All songs written and performed by Kelvin Tan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Rossalyn Tan. Aporia 95.

1. A New Place
2. We Live ( for J)
3. The New Rooms
4. The Old Place
5. Father
6. Mummy
7. Changing
8. The J Shrine
9. The 40th Floor

Dignity

Vocals by Kelvin Tan. Acoustic guitar by Jeremy Sharma. All music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and Jeremy Sharma. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wong Keng Kok at the TNT studios. Album art by Weng Pixin. Aporia 87.

1. Melt to Oblivion
2. Jaden Teo Sharma
3. The Darkest Realm Of Night
4. The Only Way I Know
5. Shades of Grey
6. No End
7. Almost Communion
8. Dignity

2010

2009

2009 album box set by Doinky Doodles!

Made-to-order Album Box Set. A set of 11 brand new albums by musician/writer Kelvin Tan. Handmade monster-boxes by Doinky Doodles!. Price: $250.00/each.
Email Doinky Doodles to place order. Open and out pops very super music!

2008

She Who Communes With The Stars, 2007

The Weltanschauung Septet, 2006

Unravelling The Stars Eclectic

Polyphonic Odes To Solace

The Shrewd Watchmaker's Journal

Bound For Nowhere

Stirrings Within The Realm of The Aleph

Fragments Towards The Definition of a Consciousness

Shards of Fractals in Tandem

The Weltanshauung Septet Boxset

Limited-edition box set of Kelvin's 2006 albums, The Weltanshauung Septet.
This box set comes with a 72-page booklet of studio recording photos, and (yes!) lyrics of all the songs. There are currently 3 more box sets left. This set costs S$300 each. To buy online, go to La libreria.