Performer - Composer - Sound Excavator - Percussionist - Drummer - Musician - Friend 

Sxisma Records represents exclusively all the recordings of the original compositions by Katerina Stamatelos as well as her piano performance recordings of various composers (including her own works).

composer for video games ~ 
for specific genres, check out the Playlists tab ~

2x Winner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award  
& John Lennon Songwriting Contest Children’s category Grand Prize Winner!

"Longtime friends Kyler England and Lalo Crane have their talented fingers squarely on the pulse of family friendly music. Their debut album, ‘Be My Friend' features England's lovely emotive vocals, and the unusual added bonus of Lalo's shimmering percussive vibes, marimba and glockenspiel playing. Over the course of eleven songs, the duo covers the joys of the season in "Nothing Funner Than Summer," baths in "Splish & Splash Time," fantasy subjects in "My Fairy" and "Magic Spaceship, and critters in "Monkey Dance," and "Little Lion Lullaby." Highlights include the quietly majestic "How I Am Made (to love you)," and the crystalline "Winter Dreams." The CD is housed in artful packaging, with lyrics easily available on-line. Peaceful and celebratory, charming and thoughtful— created and delivered from a duo with great promise.” -Lahri Bond ©2014 Parents’ Choice

More about the duo:

About Kyler (co-writer, vocals and ukelele):

Kyler England started writing songs as a child while swinging on the swing set in her backyard and serenading the trees and sky. She's been writing grownup songs for more than a decade.

Kyler cowrote and is featured on Tiesto's latest single "Take Me" which has been #5 on Billboard's and FMBQ's dance charts for weeks; is a member of the LA band The Rescues which signed to Universal Republic and had a featured iTunes single of the week; has had numerous placements of songs on shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Private Practice, Drop Dead Diva, One Tree Hill, Switched At Birth, etc. as well as in Words With Friends and Special K commercials. She also won first place in the Electronica category in the International Songwriting Contest.

When Kyler's daughter arrived in January 2013, lullabies and children's songs naturally started arriving too. Mama friend Lalo moved into the neighborhood with loads of ideas and inspiration from her two girls, and boom! Freckles was born.


About Lalo (co-writer, vibraphone and other mallets):

Lalo has loved hitting bars with mallets ever since she came across a vibraphone being used as a storage table in her middle school jazz band closet. This unusual fascination has led her on tours throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Europe performing her original compositions to the accompaniment of rave reviews in numerous jazz, percussion, and other music publications for her playing, composing and recording. Jazziz lists Lalo among the top 20 Fine Vibists; Jazztimes, Downbeat, JazzWeek, the Village Voice, etc. have given kudos for her albums; and NPR did a feature interview with her on their Weekend Edition Sunday. She has traveled to numerous colleges and universities throughout the U.S. as both a performer and clinician and often as an artist-in-residence. Lalo has recorded on commercials such as AT&T, Cheerios, Lysol, Vonage and films such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon". After playing all of this "serious" music for years, one songwriting session with brilliant musician Kyler was all it took for Lalo to fall in love with making music for kids!

Sungji Hong’s music has been described as “a work of iridescent freshness” (BBC Music Magazine), “the sound is utterly luminous” (Fanfare Magazine), “it had fantasy, colour and drive” (Nottingham evening post), “outbursts of rhythmic energy” (The Irish Times), and "a virtuoso exploration of the technical and sonorous possibilities” (Daily Telegraph).

She has won the Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung (1st Prize), the Magistralia (1st Prize), the Seoul Spring Festival Composition Competition (1st Prize), the Jesus Villa-Rojo (1st Prize), the European Competition of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (1st Prize), the Temple Music Composition Prize (1st Prize), the Crwth Competition (1st Prize), the international competition for original ballet music at the ISCM World Music Days – Slovenia (1st Prize), the Montserrat International Camera Music Composition Competition (1st Prize), the Theodore Front Prize (IAWM) and the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize (ACL).

Her works have been commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard University, USA), the Tongyoung International Music Festival (Korea), the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), the Keumho Asiana Cultural Foundation (Korea), the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music (USA), the International Isang Yun Music Society (Germany) and the MATA Festival (USA). Her music has been performed in over 42 countries and 145 cities throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. Her music has been widely broadcast in more than 17 countries (35 channels) and has been recorded and released on the Soundbrush, Elektramusic, Atoll, Dutton label and by ECM Records. 

Sungji Hong, born in South Korea in 1973, studied composition in Seoul before moving to England where she completed her Master in Music at the Royal Academy of Music in London and a PhD in composition with Nicola LeFanu at the University of York in the UK.

With a voice uniquely her own, Hawaiian singer-songwriter Kawehi draws you in with her catchy hooks and honest lyric.  Manned by a Guitar, 'Ukulele and Boss RC-30 Looping Station, she's a "one-man band" creating intricate loops via beatboxing and creative guitar usage.  Since taking a GIANT leap to L.A. from her home in Hawai'i, she has been featured in Music Connection Magazine's "Hot 100 Unsigned Artists & Bands" in 2011.  Her videos have been featured on CBS News Most Viral Videos, Vimeo, Booooooom! and Sony Music.

Now with over 200 shows nationally under her belt, Kawehi is making a name for herself as a true DIY artist, creating music that is both tangible and relative - and generating much-deserved attention from both fans and industry folk alike.

Dan Moore Percussion is following