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A few songs from some of my albums as Helios | Purchase at http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/

Helios - Hope Valley Hill

In honor of my wedding on the 4th of June I'm giving away the song that we walked down the aisle to. 

The process of writing music for this was interesting. I didn’t know how long each of the sections were going to take (i.e. main procession, transition, bride, etc), so I made each section loop-able and had a friend trigger it in Ableton (thanks Boreta). The procession lasted about 10 minutes so this is obviously a shortened version. It worked out great in the end. It was a beautiful day. I hope you enjoy…

Lara

My wife and I are releasing a more ambient album (as a counterpoint to some of the stuff we do as Mint Julep). .The album will be called "A Deep and Dreamless Sleep"
We are offering "This Time Tomorrow" for free download before the album is released.


A Pale Fire - This Time Tomorrow - free download

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Jacques Greene - Concealer 

out now on vinyl & digitally
http://www.rubadub.co.uk/music/dubstep-garage-funky/concealer

Arrow ft. Koreless

"A Source Of Light" is the latest addition to the "Year Zero" Album. I consider this as the evolution of the track "http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky" 
 because it was made out of the same set and share the same characteristics. "A Source Of Light" is a peaceful and calm track, with a soothing atmosphere, echoing sounds with a minimal approach on melody and harmony.

Recently "Year Zero" launched a Facebook page to keep in touch with everyone appreciate this project and spread the word so if you feel like keeping in touch and on track with "Year Zero" a simple like should be on its way.

https://www.facebook.com/year.zero.gr

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - A Source Of Light

Free download of a bonus track that was only featured on the physical CD release of my album "Unleft". You can buy Helios albums as CD/mp3/Flac via my shop: http://unseen-music.com/shop

Helios - The Morning Room (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (Ben Boysen Remix)

Purchase "Save Your Season" via:
unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/mint-julep
itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151

www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic | twitter.com/_mintjulep

Mint Julep music videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9t0eU_drQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxckeXA5tY&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOmpbk4ya4&feature=relmfu

The silence stretches far away
I lift my  head and drop away
And in my ear it rings

He never says what he means
Always felt but left unseen
A distant voice that sings

All this false indifference is your only defense
All this false indifference is your only defense
But it's not what you want
But it's not what you want

Feelings have become routine
Bitter words that cut a rift
They cut a rift between

Would you stay another day
Would you wait for me to say
Come back
Come back to me

All this false indifference is your only defense
All this false indifference is your only defense
But it's not what you want
But it's not what you want

~

Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2007, MINT JULEP is the husband-and-wife team of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. Subsequently relocating to Portland, Oregon, the duo cut a limited release album, Songs About Snow, in 2008 and the EP, Adorn, in 2010 – effectively a trial run for further recording in their home studio, the fruit of which is a sublime follow-up, Save Your Season, released by Village Green in 2011. The couple is currently writing and recording their next album, Broken Devotion, which is slated for release in mid 2013.

Hallmarked by Hollie’s seductive, dreamy vocals and a succession of memorably soaring choruses, all of it etched with Keith’s vivid, glinting keyboards, towering guitars and miscellaneous instrumental hooks, Mint Julep make lustrous modern pop music that is wistful and mellifluous yet simultaneously powerful, even epic – equal parts shoegazing romanticism and cool, Kraftwerkian polish. Their songs seem instantly familiar, like old musical friends, a ’classicism’ offset by the freshness and luminosity they exude as they usher you on a breathless ride through the sunlit uplands of electronic indie-rock.

Mint Julep was designed as a conscious departure from Keith’s previous, ambient-orientated projects. “When Hollie and I set out to do something, I wanted to find some way to incorporate her vocals into a slightly different style, rather than just write similar material to my solo work and lay her vocals over top”, he says. “I had the need to write something that had some distorted guitars, loud drums and was a little bolder than what I had previously done. We messed around with a track one night (which became ‘Stay’) and it was a fun process, so we just kept writing more songs so we could do a project together.”

Soon a working pattern emerged, with Keith composing music around Hollie’s lyrics or making tracks which Hollie would then add to. “It just developed after a lot of trial and error, and after a while the material started to plateau and began to sound like an album…”

A Pennsylvannian by birth, Keith Kenniff is an honors graduate of Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music, best known as the brains behind dulcet ambient/electronic practitioners Helios and the fingers on the ivories of post-classical piano minimalists Goldmund (the latter’s music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as “…so, so, so beautiful…”). A succession of albums under those aliases has made Kenniff the darling of discerning critics and his music has also been widely used in film, television and advertising, not least on the soundtrack to the 2012 documentary Bones Brigade, as well as composing for clients such as Apple, Facebook and Google.

Originally from Ohio, singer Hollie Kenniff maintains dual US/Canadian citizenship, having spent part of her life in Ontario. Aside from Mint Julep, she has collaborated on several additional musical endeavors in tandem with husband Keith, including a children’s music project, Meadows (inspired by the couple’s young son), whose debut longplayer was recently released, and an ambient diversion under their own names. An album of the latter, A Deep and Dreamless Sleep, is slated for release in 2013.

Mint Julep - Stay (lyrics)

Purchase "Save Your Season" via:
unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/mint-julep
itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151

www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic | twitter.com/_mintjulep

Mint Julep music videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9t0eU_drQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxckeXA5tY&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOmpbk4ya4&feature=relmfu

Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2007, MINT JULEP is the husband-and-wife team of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. Subsequently relocating to Portland, Oregon, the duo cut a limited release album, Songs About Snow, in 2008 and the EP, Adorn, in 2010 – effectively a trial run for further recording in their home studio, the fruit of which is a sublime follow-up, Save Your Season, released by Village Green in 2011. The couple is currently writing and recording their next album, Broken Devotion, which is slated for release in mid 2013.

Hallmarked by Hollie’s seductive, dreamy vocals and a succession of memorably soaring choruses, all of it etched with Keith’s vivid, glinting keyboards, towering guitars and miscellaneous instrumental hooks, Mint Julep make lustrous modern pop music that is wistful and mellifluous yet simultaneously powerful, even epic – equal parts shoegazing romanticism and cool, Kraftwerkian polish. Their songs seem instantly familiar, like old musical friends, a ’classicism’ offset by the freshness and luminosity they exude as they usher you on a breathless ride through the sunlit uplands of electronic indie-rock.

Mint Julep was designed as a conscious departure from Keith’s previous, ambient-orientated projects. “When Hollie and I set out to do something, I wanted to find some way to incorporate her vocals into a slightly different style, rather than just write similar material to my solo work and lay her vocals over top”, he says. “I had the need to write something that had some distorted guitars, loud drums and was a little bolder than what I had previously done. We messed around with a track one night (which became ‘Stay’) and it was a fun process, so we just kept writing more songs so we could do a project together.”

Soon a working pattern emerged, with Keith composing music around Hollie’s lyrics or making tracks which Hollie would then add to. “It just developed after a lot of trial and error, and after a while the material started to plateau and began to sound like an album…”

A Pennsylvannian by birth, Keith Kenniff is an honors graduate of Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music, best known as the brains behind dulcet ambient/electronic practitioners Helios and the fingers on the ivories of post-classical piano minimalists Goldmund (the latter’s music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as “…so, so, so beautiful…”). A succession of albums under those aliases has made Kenniff the darling of discerning critics and his music has also been widely used in film, television and advertising, not least on the soundtrack to the 2012 documentary Bones Brigade, as well as composing for clients such as Apple, Facebook and Google.

Originally from Ohio, singer Hollie Kenniff maintains dual US/Canadian citizenship, having spent part of her life in Ontario. Aside from Mint Julep, she has collaborated on several additional musical endeavors in tandem with husband Keith, including a children’s music project, Meadows (inspired by the couple’s young son), whose debut longplayer was recently released, and an ambient diversion under their own names. An album of the latter, A Deep and Dreamless Sleep, is slated for release in 2013.

Mint Julep - The Wind Beneath The Trees

I composed the score to this new Facebook spot. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200156550214780&set=vb.20531316728&type=3&theater

http://www.unseen-music.com/

Helios (Keith Kenniff) - Lilt

Three short piano variations. 

Photo by Michael Muller. 

Keith Kenniff - Hills 1

Keith Kenniff - Hills 2

Keith Kenniff - Hills 3

Bonus track from the album Stories From Elsewhere.
http://rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/album/stories-from-elsewhere

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhian-Sheehan/15584763065

www.rhiansheehan.com


Rhian Sheehan - Still (Bonus track)

First EP under the alias "Kailo". Hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed producing. Free downloads in high quality are available. Brownie points to those who can name all the samples used :3

Free DL

Say That Way

Eclise Remix of  La Boîte à Musique 
https://soundcloud.com/eclise

From the album Stories From Elsewhere. Out on LOOP/Darla/Preco

BANDCAMP: rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/album/storie…om-elsewhere
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/pages/Rhian-Sheehan/15584763065

Buy from Darla: darla.com/index.php?fuseaction…mp;item_cat_id=41705
www.loop.co.nz
www.rhiansheehan.com


Rhian Sheehan - La Boîte à Musique (Eclise Remix) FREE DOWNLOAD

http://www.unseen-music.com

Photo by Cody Cobb.

Keith Kenniff - Ten Thousand Places

Keith Kenniff - All I Needed

My song "Receives", which was recently featured in a new ad by Apple. 

Purchase this song:
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Henning von Vogelsang