THE SUN HARMONIC

“An Anonymous Quartet” Available to you now…

themoonmelodic — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:35:07 +0000

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

November Twelfth, Two-Thousand Eleven…

themoonmelodic — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:56:58 +0000

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

An Anonymous Quartet…

themoonmelodic — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:02:34 +0000

By force of nature, or a shortage of handmade supply, the three-song-demo that accompanied 2010′s Season, formerly “An Unsung Trio”, has retired to the abyss and record collections abroad. It was a year ago yesterday that I sat in the studio to record those newly conceived songs, so as an ode to that day I have revisited the idea by recently accepting 4 songs from the sky and recording them off-the-floor last night. November 28th, one year to the date. And very much in the same approach, searching for a way to perform the music in a spontaneous and unmeditated fashion. Join the mailing list to hear the extended version in December and find it on compact disc in my live-show-Mary Poppinsesque-suitcase in January 2012. “An Anonymous Quartet”, I think I’ll call it.

Two Shows…

themoonmelodic — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:50:45 +0000

Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Mansion
Kingston, Ontario
9 PM w/ Guilty Spark

Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The Spill Coffee Bar
Peterborough, Ontario
Matinee Show, 3:30 Doors 4:00 Show
PWYC

September 29th in Kingston, Ontario

themoonmelodic — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:05:51 +0000

“A Season Set”

themoonmelodic — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:35:33 +0000

Kaleb Hikele presents “A Season Set”, a live acoustic concert at The Cameron House in Toronto, Ontario, on September 22nd, 2010. Material from 2010′s acoustic craft “Season” is previewed here for the very first time. An acoustic guitar, piano and electric guitar set are performed that night. 19 songs were on the set list for “The Sun Harmonic”, however due to unfortunate battery source issues, only 17 songs were captured in video footage. The final two songs of the night remain only in the memories of the attendees, when Hikele played the song “The Air We Breathe” on electric guitar, then finished the night with an unplugged rendition of “Speak Quiet”. This song was performed with a left-handed folk guitar, sitting on the end of the stage with Alex Grantham singing into the quiet and still room.

The full concert footage can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC583F04F67BE3595

“Somewhere Over The Rainbow”

themoonmelodic — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:03:48 +0000

Music composed by Harold Arlen & Lyrics written by E.Y. Harburg
Premiered in August of 1939 to accompany ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Musical arrangement and interpretation by Kaleb Hikele & Jen Routhier

Recorded live-off-the-wooden-floor of
‘The Townhouse Recording Facility & Sound Studio’
in Toronto, Ontario, on August 24th, 2011,
during a spectacular lightning storm.

August 17th at The Silver Dollar

themoonmelodic — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:15:47 +0000

From the start of 2011 I have had my mind on other musical tangents living in this city, so please join me for my first solo concert, onstage as The Sun Harmonic, since February of this year. The show is on Wednesday, August 17th, starting at 8:00 and the admission price is only $5.00 at the door.

“DEMONSTRATIONS”: 22 free songs available for 22 summer days…

themoonmelodic — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:11:24 +0000

Available now until August 12th for free to those who wish to download the collection of music to their own music collections. You can obtain a free download here: http://kalebhikele.bandcamp.com/album/demonstrations

“DEMONSTRATIONS” is a collection of off-the-floor performances of unheard music. These songs by Kaleb Nathaniel Hikele have not been featured on previous solo or band releases or recent ‘The Sun Harmonic’ albums, and will likely be revealed in the fashion of augmented rock & folk records in the future.

A majority of these songs have never been heard by anyone in any venue. The songs available to you now are in their most vulnerable and natural state, being played on one instrument with a live vocal, and mixed in a single channel ‘Mono’ sound at a low Mastering volume to preserve dynamics.

Hikele communicates the music with an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar plugged into an amplifier, an organ and an acoustic piano, all from the comfort of Kalebs residence in Toronto, ‘The Townhouse Recording Facility & Sound Studio’. Some songs are unfinished, where you can hear the shuffling of papers, explaining, coughing and refraining verses to translate the songs as they were in May and June of the year 2011.

These rough sketches of material are presented to you for your own entertainment and are best enjoyed in the center of a Left and Right headphone in the comfort of your own home or in an outdoor environment, on a walk or in a park in the city. Thank you for listening.

Kaleb

“C MAJOR FERMATA”

themoonmelodic — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:36:28 +0000

A piano piece written by Kaleb Nathaniel Hikele, recorded on the 23rd day of June, 2011.

The inception of this piano piece began on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2009. Hikele sat down at the piano for two hours and within minutes he found himself playing the motif for the piece in C major, automatically drawn in to the romanticism of the right handed melody, sounding like a bell or a quiet alarm. He formed the two structures of the piece that day before going out to celebrate the New Year of 2010 and then continued to craft the piece and its enchanting and melancholy sound throughout the following year. Hikele arranged the minor variations in notes and melody used through the refrain of the motif, incorporating harmonic dissonance to make the chemistry of the left and right hand interesting and intriguing. He then took the piece into an uplifting key change, which reverts back to a stormy resolution in the original key. When Kaleb had experienced a death in the family in the summer of 2010, all the sudden he felt that the piece was finished in the state it was in at that time. The most important part of the performance of this song is that after the A minor sequence repeats and descends in octaves four times at the end of the piece, the finalizing C major chord is to be held as long as the piano can naturally resonate on its own wavelength with the sustain pedal suppressed. Therefore, the C Major fermata ends the piece, providing a natural decrescendo to the listener which gives them a long and settling time to think of a lost loved one, as Kaleb will always feel and think while experiencing the piece…