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The challenge of every probing artist is to plumb the depths and the layers of artistic existence and Art. Depth and depth of introspection are vital. A need to resist a superficial and shallow world. To me, self-actualization begins with an embracing of depth

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Avant Garde Jazz ★ Tan Boon Gee Drums on The Waterfront ★ Anaki Records

2013

Transmigration of Citizen N

Fighting the Fire

Jacqtourismo!

Morning Set!

Flying low; Covered in Hope

Lucidity

Turning inwards, Raging fire

Random Ubiquities

Unravelling the Hunger

We, the Sound, and the Zeitgeist

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2012

If you never know where you were, then you were never lost.

Eurology for Paul Motian

Odes for Asphodel's Smiles

Perceptualities

Slightly towards the Dawn

Surfacing In

Searching for the meaning of Incandenscence

More lightning blues for you

Modern Madrigals for Hope

My Brother, My Soul

Alive, in time

Magpie till I die!

Old melodies, made new, for my beatrice

The Yearning

Unhinged for Falling Stars

The light that falls

2011

Making these new albums has been a real humbling and inspiring experience for me. Also,an emotional one. These 16 albums will officially make the album tally 102. But much more important to me, it encourages me to take stock of all the music I've made, the struggles and joy I've had making them, and the incredible people who've since come to be good friends of mine, as well as compadres in Art. Jeremy, Delfi, Ros, Joo and many others who've since come and gone. Which makes these 16 album releases seem much more significant to me. Since the music in my albums are always diverse, I would like to categorise them here under the terms SONGS, MUSIC, EXPERIMENTAL SONGS, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC.

It has been a strange trip, so far. I dont really know how i do what i do. Inspite of not much of an audience here, and no funding, I've somehow manage to get all this music out. Feels like a dream. And while writing this, I feel like going in and recording more music. I guess it's in the passion. Maybe the blood. Or more like what Van Morrison once remarked- I didn't choose the music. Music chose me. Well, I'm still struggling, and poor. But I've always and still have had many friends who love and support me. And I'm sure more will come. And that has made me feel a very rich guy indeed. With that, I trudge on, the purity of this great being call Music urging me to move on and thrive.102 and counting. . . .on and on. . . .

Below is an audio track from each of Kelvin's 2011 albums. ( not playable on mobile)

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 TimVocals 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.

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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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A video from Kelvin's performance at the QLRS event. (Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) 10th anniversary)

2010

click on this snail to buy Kelvin's 2010's albums.

2009

2009 album plush box set by Doinky Doodles!

Kelvin playing "The Blue Planet", presented by S-Indie TV

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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.
Each set costs S$300. Available for purchase at La libreria.