Through the years, Kaleb Hikele has spent his time unveiling highschool rock bands, experimenting in composition, practicing in-home recording, while he continuously expands his musical collection of original material. This Canadian artisan has indulged in his latest ‘Limited Release’ this Winter of 2012. Hikele has briefly revealed a collection of demos and spontaneous performances, written and recorded in a concentrated November weekend, titled “An Anonymous Quartet”.
This project follows last years batch of 26 floor “Demonstrations”, after announcing his ninth independent recorded release, an acoustic craft titled “Season”, in November of 2010. Hikele is an established musician with a contemporary folk sound and strong alternative rock & roll roots, living and performing in Toronto as the composer “The Sun Harmonic”.
Born and raised in the Canadian hideaway of St.Thomas, Ontario, Kaleb Hikele was largely exposed to the world of music, playing the piano and training in classical music from a very young age. Kaleb is no stranger to the stage, it is rather his most comfortable space, having performed in a show choir to audiences all throughout his childhood. By the time that he was participating in his own composition and classical lessons, he was teaching himself the guitar by public school graduation- he later found himself learning bass guitar, drums, and a craft for songwriting for a determined number of years afterwards.
In his first two recorded releases in 2004/2005, he played the role of singer/guitarist/songwriter in a scream-rock band “Far From Freedom”. Two years later in 2007, he was instrumental in the full-length alternative-rock album release from the St. Thomas trio “The Capitol”. The band performed in the area until the summer of 2008, when Kaleb disappeared into his basement bedroom to record his third solo album, a 14-track record with no name, no cover and no true release to the public. Hikele then travelled to the city of Toronto to pursue schooling and a solo venture of his own.
In the early dawn of 2009, the concept of a stage moniker was developed and Kaleb would soon appear on stage and on record as “The Sun Harmonic”. Surrounding his pseudonym debut with a release in the month of June, he performed routinely on the stages of The Cameron House, The Horseshoe Tavern, The Opera House, The Rivoli, Hard Rock Cafe, Hugh’s Room, and other notable venues in Toronto. He continued to build his catalogue of ambitious solo albums, featuring studio and songwriting experimentation.
Acting as producer and engineer for his recorded works, Hikele had developed a method of performing all of the instrumentals heard on his releases. May of 2010 saw the first record from his newly built downtown Toronto studio, a genre-blending art-rock album titled “Chemistry”. A few months after, Hikele was driven into the studio to record a collection of acoustic songs as a dedication and cathartic goodbye to a loved one- he spent three late nights in the studio, the recordings had no augmentation with overdubbs, and an album was released in November of 2010 titled “Season”.
Kaleb Hikele is a prolific artist who has kept a constant and varied recorded output since 2004. Currently, he appears on stage and in record stores as The Sun Harmonic, a solo artist. Off stage, he owns and operates a recording space in the heart of downtown Toronto entitled “The Townhouse Recording Facility & Sound Studio“, where he acts as an aspiring sound chemist and producer for indie artists across the city. He is now reaching towards the prospect of the future and to collect the musical ideas in his mind…
His one word philosophy… Listen.
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