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As a finale to the year 2011, Kaleb Hikele performed a selection of original songs for the camera on remote locations in his hometown of St. Thomas and London, Ontario. The audio from these on-site recordings have been made available for free download to the public for a limited time, here: http://thesunharmonic.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-vol-1

On December 27th, film talent Emily Pickering and “The Sun Harmonic” went to a gazebo in Pinafore Park to sing a new tune admist the snow and the winter surroundings. On the night of December 29th, 2011, they ventured up the stairwell to the abandoned attic of an art gallery to sing mostly new and formally unreleased songs in the quiet and cold space.

A few songs appeared on 2011′s “Demonstrations” release, two off the recently revealed An Anonymous Quartet EP and one forgotten song polished from a 2008 untitled album. Each recording is accompanied by a colour motion picture that can be found somewhere on the internet- here, actually: https://vimeo.com/thesunharmonic

Thank you and please enjoy the music.

Over the Winter holidays, The Sun Harmonic set out into the city to film some new material on-site of remote locations in his hometown of St. Thomas and London, Ontario. The six songs are available to watch now, at this site: https://vimeo.com/thesunharmonic

Thank you to Emily Pickering for her generous work on these videos. Please enjoy.

By force of nature, or a shortage of handmade supply, the three-song-demo that accompanied 2010′s Season, formerly “An Unsung Trio”, had retired to the abyss and record collections abroad.

It was a year to the day that The Sun Harmonic sat in the studio to record those newly conceived songs, so as an ode to that day he revisited the idea- by accepting 4 songs out of the sky a few days before and recording them off-the-floor a few days later, one year to the date, on November 28th, 2011.

In the same approach, Kaleb Hikele was searching for a way to perform the music in a spontaneous and unmeditated fashion- here are the floor recordings for you to digest, compiled as “An Anonymous Quartet”, featuring the four newly penned compositions for your entertainment.

Recorded off-the-wooden-floor of The Townhouse Recording Facility & Sound Studio, Toronto, Canada.

http://thesunharmonic.bandcamp.com/album/an-anonymous-quartet-2

Thank you,
The Sun Harmonic 

From December first to the last of 2011, “november twelfth, two-thousand eleven” will be available to you as a Free digital download. This is the latest installment in Kaleb Hikele’s Limited Releases, a collection of live recordings captured at a recent concert in Ontario. For most of the year 2011, Kaleb Hikele did not step on stage in his solo orientation, while reaching out to other musical outlets until the end of the summer. After 8 months away from performing on stage with a lone acoustic, he set out to put on a solo show in Toronto and followed with two shows in Kingston, elusively returning to the stage as The Sun Harmonic.

His fourth Autumn concert behind the microphone was staged in Peterborough, at a coffee bar titled The Spill. On Saturday, November 12th, 2011, Hikele played two sets parted by an intermission, during a matinee concert at the venue. The concert was recorded direct to tape with a Sharp Cassette Recorder RD-767AV, evident in the warping of sound and manipulation of pitch throughout the set. Set One and Two were seperated by the Side A and Side B of the cassette tape.

Despite the clarity of the recordings, this is a moment of the past captured for you to hear, that hopefully will place you in that time and space if you volunteer to do so… please enjoy.

http://thesunharmonic.bandcamp.com/album/november-twelfth-two-thousand-eleven