Guitar and bass player, mostly working with Italian fusion artists. A black Italian (family from Tinidad & Tobago) and brother of Hugh Bullen.
Bio:
On emigrating from Trinidad and Tobago in the late 50's to England, Kelvin and his brother, Hugh, soon took on the passion for music as young boys in Reading, Berkshire. The weekly saturday morning sessions at home and local youth club with the young Mike Oldfield soon created a growing reputation.
His band while still at school in the 60's, the Soul Trinity band played on the Riki Tik circus, playing supporting acts to Cream at Newbury Corn Exchange, Jimi Hendrix at Chelmsford Corn Exchange and Youth Clubs in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm. In the late 60s, he and his brother, Hugh, was asked to join a new band, Joe E. Young & The Toniks, they moved to London and recorded his first album "Soul Buster" on Toast (3) label, touring England and playing supporting acts to Aretha Franklin at the Hammersmith Odeon. After the band splitted, Kelvin landed to Italy, there, stayed and worked and toured as a session musician with the likes of Wess Johnson, Rocky Roberts, Napoli Centrale, Loredana Bertè, Mario Lavezzi and Romina Power.
In the mid 70's, Kelvin joined a London based project named Fari with singer Jenny Jackson, signed up with Toast (3) and went to Nigeria to record their songs in Ginger Baker's recording studio in Lagos. These recordings were never released but tracks from his personal archive can be heard.
In the early 80's, together with Italian and American musicians, the album "Cast" was recorded in New York with colabration with Average White Band members. This album was a showcase for Kelvin's talent as a composer, singer, arranger and musician. In 1982, he toured with Pino Daniele and recorded in Toast (3), the album "Common Ground" with Richie Havens co-writing the song "Stand Up".
Around that time, Kelvin moved to Switzerland and released his first single, IBM Skankin / Crooks Celebration Ball on a small indie label named Toast (3).
The 90's found Kelvin teaching, working and recording in Switzerland. Personal project and band Exchange, Monroe, Bettina Schelker, Vic Vergeat "The Bank".
In the 2000's, recording and touring with Doug Duffey, gospels with Connie Harvey and Queen Yahna, KCB Band "Summer Soul", Manu Hartmann "Funky Juice", Earl Greys Crunch featuring singer Liliane Michel, Adesuwa Obaseki (with Hugh Bullen as composer, producer, arranger) Rolf Schweizer "Seven Shades".
Currently lives in Basel, Switzerland.
2019
Joy Music Productions
File, MP3, Single
2018
Joy Music Productions
3xFile, MP3, Single
2017
Joy Music Productions
3xFile, MP3, Single
1982
KNSE International
7", Single
2023
2022
NAR International, Warner Music Italy
5xCD, Album, RE, Exp + 3xCD, Album, RE + CD + Box,
2012
Bake A Book
CD, Album
2001
Hear We Go, Foundagirl Records
CD, Album
2000
1987
Cascabel Records (2)
7"
1985
1985
1983
1981
1980
Ciao
12", Promo
1980
1980
1979
1978
1976
1975
1975
Fantasy Empire Recordings
CD, Single
2009
Innspirals Records
13xFile, MP3, Album
Kelvin Bullen
Kelvin Bullen
Kelvin Bullen