Keep Kalmado
Kaiolyn is a chillwave project started in 2016 by multi-instrumentalist Kyle Tesalona; featuring influences from ODESZA, Jai Wolf, Giraffage, Flume, and Bonobo.
Kalmado means “calm” in Tagalog, the native language of the Philippines. Even though I wasn’t born there, my heritage belongs there.
I began to work on Kalmado, unknowingly as a means to keep up my production skills while I was on a trip around Spain. A van of me and my closest friends traveled around Spain though the different landscapes of large metropolitan cities to rural farmland. I kept myself to a challenge: to write a demo of an instrumental for each stop on the trip. Each trackfrom this EP started from these experiences and how I felt during that day. After the trip I added more ideas and I began thinking about which artists I believed would bring out the best “voice” to the track. I consider all of the artists on the EP to be some of my closest friends.
What came from these demos was a collection of chillwave sounds with future bass elements, with emphasis on downtempo pop.
Each track has a story and life; featuring the voices of Olivia Dawn, DANI, Thrills, and Stagger.
Keep Kalmado and happy listening
Kaiolyn is a chillwave project started in 2016 by multi-instrumentalist Kyle Tesalona; featuring influences from ODESZA, Jai Wolf, Giraffage, Flume, and Bonobo.
Kalmado means “calm” in Tagalog, the native language of the Philippines. Even though I wasn’t born there, my heritage belongs there.
I began to work on Kalmado, unknowingly as a means to keep up my production skills while I was on a trip around Spain. A van of me and my closest friends traveled around Spain though the different landscapes of large metropolitan cities to rural farmland. I kept myself to a challenge: to write a demo of an instrumental for each stop on the trip. Each trackfrom this EP started from these experiences and how I felt during that day. After the trip I added more ideas and I began thinking about which artists I believed would bring out the best “voice” to the track. I consider all of the artists on the EP to be some of my closest friends.
What came from these demos was a collection of chillwave sounds with future bass elements, with emphasis on downtempo pop.
Each track has a story and life; featuring the voices of Olivia Dawn, DANI, Thrills, and Stagger.
Keep Kalmado and happy listening
Kaiolyn is a producer and violinist of Ethnikids. Ethnikids is a team of musicians, producers, and visual artists. Production styles include a vast array of genres ranging from rap, r&b, electronic music, and rock. Ethnikids' unique production style blends contemporary production techniques with live musicianship creating their unique tonal palette.The Ethnikids team had their first major success when they teamed up with KickRaux, a MAD DECENT signee, and founder of the FutureDanceHall label to release their remix of SAD MACHINE by Porter Robinson. The remix peaked at number eight on SoundCloud's electro charts as well as number two on HypeM's list of popular songs on Twitter. Since then they have had releases with Dim Mak Records via production credits for Will Brennan, as well as for Atlantic Records with a remix of Meg Myers’ hit single "SORRY"
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