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 up with a series of singles and remixes throughout the following years, contributing to labels such as Hip Dozer, United Common Records, and Night Time Stories. His second full-length release, Ghosts of the Floating World, released in April 2021 with 24/7 YouTube streaming icon Lofi Girl, and has since amassed over 25 Million streams on various streaming platforms.

In June 2023, a five-track EP entitled "View Through the Mist" was released via French beats dealer Hip Dozer, inspired in part by nature, traditional Chinese music, and the woodblock prints of Kawase Hasui. Since then, Kalaido has performed live in various cities across the USA West Coast, sharing the stage with artists such as Flamingosis, Blockhead, and Vicky Farewell, combining DJing and live drumming to bring new life to his tracks.

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), and has more projects currently in development. For more information on his composition work, you can visit his website here.