Tay Cher Siang

17/04/2025

*Pre-order Now: WVC Jazz Ensemble – River 川*

River 川 is a musical journey through time, memory, and space — from the quiet banks of the Malacca River to the sacred waters of the Ganges, from traditional Malay lullabies to classical Chinese poetry, from childhood echoes to the pulse of the modern city.
Led by pianist Tay Cher Siang and performed by the acclaimed WVC Jazz Ensemble, this album weaves a rich Southeast Asian cultural tapestry, blending jazz with literary and traditional influences. Featuring a star-studded lineup of guest artists, River is a soulful meditation on life, longing, and existence.

《川》是一段穿越时间、记忆与空间的音乐旅程——从静谧的马六甲河畔流向神圣的恒河之水，从马来传统童谣走进中文诗词，从童年的回响延伸至现代城市的脉动。由钢琴家郑泽相领衔、WVC 爵士乐团演奏，专辑融合东南亚文化与全球爵士语言，邀请多位客座艺人跨界演出，打造一张跨文化、跨时代的音乐杰作。

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16/04/2025

WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble latest album River should be ready in a few days time.

We can't wait to share with you the music that we made which we wish you would enjoy the journey together with us.

Thanks to the many partners who worked hard to make this a reality.
Here's a video from the recording session, made by Jenn Yeh from TAXI Production

01/04/2025

星洲日报副刊三月三十日刊登的访谈。

有关 WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble 最新专辑 River 的想法概念。
以及 四月二十六日 与 The Shang Sisters - TSS, Junji Delfino Izen Kong 龚杰尉 Farid Izwan Eddy Lim You Cheng 连同 Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) 在 Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS 的音乐会。

谢谢杨林宜的访问整理

大马爵士乐团WVC的上一张专辑《Purnama》（梵文意为“满月”）（2021年），说的是故乡的月，是心灵的归依，是对生养之地的礼赞，因而融入了丰富的马来西亚音乐元素。时隔数年，WVC即将推出新专辑《River》（河流），除了延.....

30/03/2025

Manusia Miskin Kaya: Lagu Raya Project Live at Jao Tim KL.

The Malayan movie industry aired its first film, Leila Majnun, in 1934 (filmed in Singapore and directed by B.S. Rajhans of India). The theme and actors were largely, if not all, from the bangsawan scene. Forced into hiatus in World War 2, the film industry regrouped after the war and became a key disseminator of culture to the people. The song was performed by Lena Abdullah (born Lena de Souza), a famous songstress and dubbing artiste. In this case, she provided the singing voice for Normadiah, in the film “Siapa Salah”. The song encapsulates the movie's theme, raising questions of economic social welfare/justice and the age-old issue of the rich-poor divide. The song is also significant as an early composition by two young upstarts who became giants in the film industry — P. Ramlee and Jamil Sulong.

Here we presented this version from the Lagu Raya Project Live at Jaotim together with WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble, with Yaw on drums, rizaltony on Guitar, Alwagera and Wardina Humaira on vocals, with great narration and writing by Marina Tan.

30/03/2025

多谢星洲日报的专访，让我分享@WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble 新专辑 River 的一些概念想法。和林宜的谈话一个多小时说了好多东西，担心是否会太散乱，不过林宜很会听也很会整理，概念都清楚的在短文中表现出来。多谢摄影师来到录音现场捕捉神韵，也将 Alex Ls Tan 的小可爱装进照片里面 （录音的那几天也都在和她玩哪）

专辑请来几位音乐家助阵： Farid Izwan Yi Mann Lum Alex Rocksta' Vick Ramakrishnan

同时 WVC 也会在四月二十六日在国油演奏厅联通姐妹仨, Junji Delfino Izen Kong 龚杰尉 Eddy Lim You Cheng 以及 Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) 呈现我们的作品。

我只是长河流淌中的一颗水滴，不过长河就是由数不尽的水滴组成的。

#星洲日报

29/03/2025

Well wishes to all that are on the way balik kampung traversing the many roads leading back home, looking forward to see love ones, to reunion with family and friends. Have a safe journey!

Here's a gem from the 1988: the theme song from the EON commercial originally sang by Jamal Abdillah & Raja Ema.

Here we presented this version from the Lagu Raya Project Live at Jaotim together with WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble, with Yaw on drums, rizaltony on Guitar, Alwagera and Wardina Humaira on vocals, with great narration by Marina Tan.

27/03/2025

Beatles' music used to be played in my discman forever, that's around 1999-2000, EMI came out with that Beatles "1" compilation. From Love Me Do to The Long and Winding Road, 27 tracks on repeat, day in and day out.
Oh, maybe slightly earlier I started to dig their music, thanks to books that I have enjoyed: Murakami's Norwegian Wood (of course) and 马世芳： 地下乡愁蓝调 that introduced me the music, especially the album: St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album. On paper, these albums feel so important and when I finally got my hands on them, I was lapping everything up. That's the kind of sound I wasn't familiar with (I was really into Jazz and Classical and Film Soundtrack at the time), there were a little danger, a little silliness, a little psychedelic about the music. Holding the albums, reading the liner notes, looking at the photos seemed to transform me to another realm.
I even put up this poster of the Fab 4 on my wall, awaiting for the time that I could spread my wings and fly (but also full of trepidations, what's out there for me?)

What's your favorite Beatles Song?

Tonight Mar 27 2025 8pm, WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble and Junji Delfino will be presenting Beatles Music, in our own ways.
See you there

https://www.jaotim.com/products/table-lamp-concert-ft.-junji-delfino-27th-march-2025-(beatles-revisited)

25/03/2025

Burning midnight oil, to wrap up the whole album.
After checking the earlier recording, we feel that we could do better on some songs, after buka puasa we assembled in Starmount studio to brush up the songs.

Still striving at Apr 20th release date.

Some really nice photos courtesy of SC Shekar Jason Tiu and Horngyih Wong .
Album design by TsuJi Lam

21/03/2025

英年早逝的钢琴家Esbjorn Svensson 组成的EST Trio 是我早年学习爵士乐时让我改观爵士钢琴三重奏的无限可能性。有机会在纽约一个爵士音乐节看到他们的演出让我赞叹不已。

这张专辑2003-4年影响我不少。
这里郑重推介。

聽爵享受，City Plus FM. 今晚九点。

#聽爵享受

【听爵享受 - 经典专辑「Seven Days of Falling by Esbjörn Svensson Trio (2003)」】

📀 本期 #经典专辑，带您走进瑞典传奇爵士三重奏 Esbjörn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) 的代表作——《Seven Days of Falling》。

这张 2003 年的专辑被誉为重新定义现代爵士的杰作，既神秘深邃，又充满流动的诗意 🎶，在爵士、古典与前卫音乐之间自由穿梭，营造出独树一帜的听觉体验 🎧。

Esbjörn Svensson 细腻而富有情感的钢琴演奏，搭配 Dan Berglund 深沉且富有张力的贝斯 🎻，以及Magnus Öström 层次丰富的鼓点🥁，使整张专辑在优雅与激情之间达成完美平衡⚖️。从梦幻飘渺的旋律到爆发力十足的律动⚡，每一首曲目都展现了 E.S.T. 对爵士乐的革新精神，打破传统，赋予爵士乐全新的表达方式！

今晚 9 点，与泽相 Tay Cher Siang 一同沉浸在这张划时代的爵士专辑中，让层次丰富的音乐流动，为您的周五夜增添一抹北欧的迷人色彩✨！

#听爵享受

06/03/2025

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04/03/2025

First day in the studio recording WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble new album. I gotta admit it didn't go as smoothly as I wished. Wiseman said: More haste, less speed.

Coincidentally a WhatsApp message came in asking to buy the Purnama Vinyl, and the phone number is from Georgia. Georgia? Turned out to be a young handsome Georgian guy working and living in KL, already owning WVC's previous albums, wanting to gift the Vinyl to his best friend's wedding. So I made arrangements and delivered the album personally, and talked to him for a couple minutes.

I enjoy moments like this, to meet people to talk to know more about other walks of life. Thank you for the music.

02/03/2025

Since the release of WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble 7th album Purnama in 2021, four years have passed (subsequently Purnama Vinly was released in 2023). WVC's previous albums were released quite regularly in the interval of two years and the sparks to kept that going were strong. But then time flies, this and that happened on top of ageing does brought its challenges: physically and mentally; not to mention the arch-devil of them all: procrastination! It took me four years to come to this decision of starting the recording of our 8th album, titled: River.

Life is like a slow moving river, people we have met along the way made up this waterway that carries history, cultures and stories forward.
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"

This new album will consist of Malaysian tunes, my original compositions and standards, all rearranged.
Special guests Junji Delfino, Izen Kong and Alwani are to sing a few songs too.
WVC's bassist AJ Popshuvit and Adriel Wong are to play the very important role in shaping the album, and we have our trusted friend Alex Ls Tan of StarMount Studio helming the recording booth. TsuJi Lam will design the album cover.

This album is slated to release on 20th April 2025 in conjunction with WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble performing with The Shang Sisters - TSS with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) at Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS on 26th April 2025.

Godspeed.

18/02/2025

Today WVC Jazz visited Dewan Filharmonik Petronas resided in the Petronas Twin Tower for the promotional video shoot.

Thanks Junji Delfino and Farid Izwan for joining us.

Here's some snippets of the productive morning.
The concert is on Apr 26th.
We are really looking forward to perform with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, together with our sisters The Shang Sisters - TSS and Izen Kong

Check out this link for the tickets:
https://www.mpo.com.my/season-2025/all-that-jazz-with-wvc-jazz-ensemble-the-shang-sisters

04/02/2025

Upcoming performances Feb 2025

Feb 12 Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino at Jaotim. Funny Valentine

Feb 19 WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + Beta Rivellino at Jaotim. Brazilian Jazz and More

Feb 23 2.30pm WVC Jazz at OACC plays and talks about the Malaysian Real Book Project

08/01/2025

The Teletubby Band, performing with The Shang Sisters - TSS Duo Edition, at Genting Crockfords Hotel Lounge New Year Celebration on Dec 30th + 31st 2024.

AJ Popshuvit Adriel Wong Eddy Lim You Cheng Alex Koh

Photo by Jenn Yeh