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Late Night Swim

Maddy Briggs - Late Night Swim II (Stillwater Mix)

BRYAN SENTI COULD BE WELL KNOWN TO LISTENERS OF A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN (DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL HIPPITY HOPPITY VIOLIN SOLO ON THE UNDIVIDED FIVE'S ADIOS, FLORIDA???? BRYAN APPROACHED ADAM SUMMER OF 2022 FOR A REWORK. I AGREED AS LONG AS I COULD RECORD A SIXTEEN PIECE CHOIR, SO I DID....

released July 7, 2023 
RECORDING & MANIPULATION OF BRYAN SENTI SOUNDS - OXDONK, BELGIUM @ AANTALVIER - 16 PIECE CHOIR RECORDING BUDAPEST, HUNGARY @ MAGYAR RADIO STUDIO 22 ORCHESTRATIONS ADAM WILTZIE - CONDUCTOR PETER PEJSIK ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR MIKLOS LUKÁS @ EAST CONNECTION MUSIC - MIXED BY FRANCESCO DONADELLO @ SYNECDOCHE MUSIC RESEARCH

ADAM WILTZIE APU REMIX (Apu Minus Seven Plus Sixteen Voices)

We’re thrilled to introduce our new project, Harbors—a meeting point between our two ambient sensibilities, with a touch of piano. We’ve teamed up with the amazing folks at Nettwerk to bring you our debut album, When We Are Free, coming August 1st. The first single, A Portrait of Time, is out now.

https://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com/track/a-portrait-of-time-feat-harbors

A Portrait of Time

A Portrait Of Time

We finished a new Mint Julep track yesterday! Hope you enjoy it! :)💜 
https://heliosmusic.bandcamp.com/track/holding-on

Truth be told, I’ve been holding on to more than just moments - 
A new Mint Julep album has been quietly waiting in the wings.
Hoping to share it with you in the next few months! :)
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I’ve been holding on to moments
That I always thought would never leave
Every step, a soft reminder
Of all the places we can’t reach

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Wrote our names in summer rain
Now I trace those same old patterns again
Calling out, you say my name
As if you never went away

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Holding On

Mint Julep - Persuasion

Mint Julep - Broken Devotion

Mint Julep - Small Memory

Purity

From our album "Broken Devotion" out February 12th 2016. Mint Julep is Hollie Kenniff & Keith Kenniff (aka Helios, Goldmund).

www.mintjulepmusic.com
www.unseen-music.com

On their second album Broken Devotion, Portland-based duo Mint Julep instill their lush and gauzy, synth-centric brand of pop music with a raw and powerful emotionalism. The follow-up to their 2011 debut Save Your Season (praised as “melodically sophisticated and dreamy” by the NME), Broken Devotion came to life over the course of four years, with Mint Julep reaching a new level of lyrical precision while easing into more lavishly textured, intricately layered arrangements. Throughout Broken Devotion, multi-instrumentalist/producer Keith Kenniff (also known for his work as ambient indie-electronic act Helios) and his wife Hollie Kenniff (Mint Julep’s vocalist and lyricist) explore the many bright and dark dimensions of love, a tension that’s masterfully embodied on the album’s title track. Urgent yet ethereal, “Broken Devotion” merges driving rhythms and hazy guitar tones as Hollie’s hypnotic vocal work achingly captures the unraveling of a romance (“There’s a ghost inside us/There are hands on your eyes/Spaces in between us/There are places we can’t hide”). Despite the moody atmosphere of the album, much of Broken Devotion was born from a certain lighthearted spirit within Mint Julep’s creative partnership. Lead single “White Hot Heart,” for instance, began as a playful experiment in retro electro-pop but eventually mutated into an airy and shimmering, synth-laced number that’s timeless in melody. Also featuring a gorgeously sprawling cover of When In Rome’s late-‘80s new-wave hit “The Promise,” Broken Devotion shifts from the frenetic energy of beat-driven tracks like “Incinerate” to the downtempo drama of songs like “Slow Spiral” with delicate grace. Forming Mint Julep in 2007, the Kenniffs originally had modest intentions for the band. “The project really just started out as a way to get my wife to sing, because I knew that she could but was kind of shy about it,” says Keith. Though the duo initially mined much influence from early-‘90s shoegaze, Mint Julep gradually shaped their sound by drawing inspiration from electronic music and from their shared affection for rough-edged music of varying genres (industrial for Hollie, punk rock for Keith). “It took us a while to suss out whether this was something we were just going to have fun with, or if we’d actually release our music,” Keith says. “But we ended up keeping at it, and now we’re at the point where we’ve created something with its own sound that’s very unique to us.” Noting that “it’s been great for Hollie and me to bond over making music, and to have that music feed into our relationship,” Keith points out that Mint Julep have found an even more enduring purpose in creating both Broken Devotion and its predecessor. “Writing music can be stressful, but there’s that joy that comes from creating something that you know you’ll have for a really long time,” he says. “We can finish an album and move on, and then go back years later and let the songs tell us what was happening then, what we were feeling. It’s a cool way to mark all these very specific moments in our lives together.”

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Mint Julep - White Hot Heart

New piece I wrote for as part of my licensing library. http://www.unseen-music.com/licensing

Keith Kenniff - Rivers

Music by Gray Acres.
Mastered by Ian Hawgood.

Release date: Late February through Sound in Silence (GR) soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com

The Maps They Held

“Never, just as you wanted” is the first track off the eagerly awaited forthcoming Benoît Pioulard studio album. ‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ will be released on November 17th on limited edition tape and digital via Dauw.
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Dauw.bandcamp.com

Pioulard.bandcamp.com

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First Listen: Benoît Pioulard - "Never, Just As You Wanted"

The latest single from my upcoming EP called THE IRONIC DISTANCE. Both digital and vinyl versions are available to preorder at http://music.lowercasenoises.com

These songs came about during a somewhat unprecedented burst of energy and creativity following a living room tour that ended in November 2017. I limited myself to only guitar and synthesizer (with the exception of a piano part on one song that was screaming to exist). The resulting songs are minimal and focused within comfortable arrangements that never take you by surprise, but rather move you along at a satisfyingly slow pace. At least in my opinion.

I'm Afraid Anymore

Track taken from the upcoming album 'And His Many Seas' by Moss Covered Technology...

Audio: Moss Covered Technology
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio
Release date: 30.04.18

'Sea #4' - And His Many Seas - [Fluid Audio, 2018]

Honestly, Yggdrasil is one of the most ambitious and proudest projects I have done to date.
It is an album in which represents me who I am and where I am going (as a music producer and as a person). In which it faithfully reflect my feelings, my emotions and my way of interpreting what life is.
Sincerely in this album I have put everything I have had in my hands until leaving it as it is today.

Huge thanks to @michaelfkofficial, @dessinbizarre, and @ludvigcimbrelius for participating musically, and to @stereoscenic for giving me the opportunity to release it with them. Without their input, this could not have been done.

Vanaheim (feat. Michael FK)

Latest:
Helios - Espera: https://ghostly.ffm.to/helios-espera
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift: https://ampl.ink/5Y9Rw
Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep: https://ampl.ink/omKoq
Goldmund - The Time it Takes: smarturl.it/ibfvzw

I write music for film and record as Helios, Mint Julep, Goldmund.

For licensing inquiries please visit: http://www.unseen-music.com/licensing

Mint Julep - Broken Devotion

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