Kalaido

Kalaido is a project of Portland-based composer/producer Phoenix Glendinning. He creates his melodic, instrumental hip hop sound by blending an array of live instruments, field recordings, and VSTs, drawing on his background in soundtrack music to create original compositions around his beats. He made his debut release Moonlit Tales with College Music in December 2018, and has followed that with a series of singles and remixes throughout the following years, contributing to labels such as United Common Records, Hip Dozer, and Night Time Stories. His second full-length release, Ghosts of the Floating World, released in April 2021 with Lofi Girl. In 2025 Kalaido is set to release his third full-length album "In Praise of Shadows," his first fully independent release. The album marks a stylistic evolution for Kalaido, using almost entirely live instrumentation and featuring tracks that lean heavily into jazz, ambient, and house, in addition to the more familiar lofi/instrumental hip hop sound his fans have come to associate him with. In addition to Kalaido, Phoenix releases orchestral soundtrack music under his name Phoenix Glendinning, and has contributed original OSTs to video games Leaving Lyndow (2017) and Eastshade (2019).