Artist description MATTHEW TAN self description: .."a poet who just happens to find the guitar and voice more convenient than the typewriter or word-processor".

Music Style jazz & beyond

Musical Influences donovan, cliff richard, kenny loggins, bee gees, stevie wonder, ralph towner, oregon,

Similar Artists gordon lightfoot,donovan,roger whittaker,murray mclaughlin,kenny rogers,cat stevens,leonard cohen,jim croce, kenny loggins,glen campbell, harry chapin,

Artist History MATTHEW TAN : as any musician born in a british colony, the influence of artists such as Cliff Richard, Donovan,etc are unavoidably evident. thankfully, at least to me, because these artists taught me the importance of melody, variety and colour, as opposed to flair and monotony of the more popular choice. my first guitar was inherited by chance, an acoustic steel string guitar that was thrown away in the thrashcan by my eldest brother, who seemingly failed to master the basic C F G to encourage him to pursue his lessons. fortunately, (or perharps, to some, unfortunately) for me, i found the guitar while kicking around the tennis ball during one of those common-place makeshift-football matches with the neighbourhood kids. from that fateful day, i not only aspired to be denis law/georgie best i also aspired to be cliff richard/donovan, i even painted my brother's guitar to resemble the one donovan had, with the words:"this machine kills". ages later, here i am, coming a full circle; having travelled extensively and performed in several bands of a myraid of genres (rock, blues, folk, jazz, fusion)... of course, in those days, we were not obssessed with having so many sub-divisions of genres; fortunately, our disc-jockeys (at least, some of them) of those day were more interested in the quality of the music, than to pigeon-hole the artist into one category. in 2003, i sold my battery of electric instruments, multi-track, synthesizers, the whole collection of fender & gibson guitars,etc... and bought myself a yamaha classical guitar... back to basics, acoustic... anything else that you hear in the music, has been processed to give it a more varied sound, but the raw takes were basically one guitar one voice. (profile unedited and unchecked for typo errors) COMPOSER'S DISCOGRAPHY in brief: zbraxing(JSL9031), desensistize(JSL9033), red eye (JSL9035ep) progress (topograf) - mp3 cd epitaph to a blue angel (stmatt)- mp3 cd celebration to Santana (STMatt) -mp3 cd take 9 for 6 (STMatt) - mp3 cd blues tan (STMatt) -mp3 cd can't live without the blues (Matt Tan) - mp3 cd watch (Matt Tan) - mp3 cd flesh to metal to wood (Matt Tan) -mp3 cd

Group Members MATTHEW TAN (guitar, voices, production, artwork) all tunes (c)2003Matthew Tan (SOCAN) all rights reserved. Matthew Tan, a registered SOCAN member since 1993.

Instruments classical guitar, d'addario strings, dean markley acoustic pickup, voices, cakewalk software for production

Albums THE SILENT HEART ; ocean depths into storeroom

Press Reviews .....In 2003,this Montreal based composer/solo-guitarist abandoned his battery of electric guitars, synthesizers, digital drums and processing pedals, to return to his first instrument: the classical guitar. His first release of solo classical new age jazz tunes was under his SOCAN registered pseudonym JOSEPH SENLIANG, on an all instrumental album entitled: "The wind is my metronome". His second release "THE SILENT HEART" , consisting of vocal tunes, is set to be available here on this mp3 site under his composer's name, tentative date: canadian summer 2003 (july-august). this album has a mixed bag of bossa nova ,with sort washes of modern country/blues, similar to Norah Jones, Eric Clapton, Garth Brooks).. all done with a touch of panache. (EMBRYO CONCEPTS production).

Location montreal, quebec - Canada

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