Making music in Toronto. Here is where I share my love for exploring new sounds and atmospheres. As always, feel free to follow, like, download and share!

Thank you so much to all those who have been so encouraging in supporting me thus far.

With love and blessings,
Chanelle

Kevin Zi-Xiao He is a Chinese-born composer who immigrated to Canada in his mid-teen years. He’s musical output originates from a Chinese cultural background, embodying Eastern musical elements within a Western art music framework. With a particular interest in popular music of East Asia, He seeks to defy boundaries between popular and concert music. His writing often incorporates strong sense of melody and poetic use of tonal harmony that evokes instant emotional response in the audience. Zi-Xiao He has studied composition with Alexander Rapoport,  Ronald Royer and Larysa Kuzmenko. His works have been presented by the Chinese Artists Society of Toronto (CAST) and the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO), and performed in the Composers Concerts at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Having completed a bachelor’s degree with double-majoring in music and architectural design, He currently studies composition in graduate school at the University of Toronto.

I'm currently producing new music. Please check stand by for new material as I'll be posted them on this site. Also, because I don't sell my music anywhere, and for those who download my music, I accept donations at https://www.patreon.com/sakikaskas 
For those who can't download any of my music on this site, please email me and I can send you a version of any song in any format you desire, Thank you!

Saki


Covid lockdown gave me the time to put together a project I always wanted to do but never had the time with a busy schedule.  I picked out close to 100 songs that inspired me to get into music.  Most are from the 1970s and early 1980s when I turned onto music and my influences.  A couple of the songs are from the later 1980s and couple of pearls from later that I couldn’t resist including.  I wanted to redo them with different flavors, almost in a way that I would have arranged and produced them.  The outcomes were dense and organic by design but it was clear where my creativity was taking each song.  Heavy influences from other artists   Too many credits to those who assisted or played on this project.  I will add them later but it was truly a transatlantic effort with contributors from Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, NYC, LA, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and San Francisco as well as me holed up at my two studios in California, playing, tracking, arranging, engineering and producing.  

 I hope you enjoy these reimaginations.  It was fun making them.  Something I leave as a gift to those who love music. At some point I will write a companion piece outlining the thinking, instruments and gear used along with production notes for the project. 😃

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Marcel was born in a hospital and became a child at a young age, showing much promise as a toddler, he was already illiterate in 3 languages before finishing elementary school. As a result of his relentless curiosity and lack of respect for social norms, he navigated successfully around receiving a formal education and entered into the work force in his teens, playing piano, performing magic tricks and stand-up comedy in exchange for money and respect.

Before reaching 20 he was already a regular at comedy clubs around Toronto, occasionally winning laughter and applause from his audience when not being booed off stage.

After working on a documentary film for a couple of magicians in China in 1999, he began to spend more time back in the motherland and became a bi-cultural jack of all trades and dabbled in many roles, taking part in everything from Beijing Music Festival to Magic shows on CCTV.

Working as a freelance creative meant he would take jobs ranging from writing to directing to acting to producing sound track for commercials and assorted video/audio projects... 

But above all, he is most proud of his work done out-side of the context of getting paid, when he writes ditties of music and songs for no purpose other than to capture a sliver of inspiration from muses who occasionally visit him in his waking dreams.

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