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Norwegian Wood

My heart goes out to everyone in Japan that recently experienced this terrible earthquake. I wrote improvised this song as a way to deal with the emotions I felt upon waking up and seeing these incredible images.

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Goldmund - Nihon

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

Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky

Helios - Hope Valley Hill

A piece I composed for a short film by Everynone for Radiolab / NPR.  Buy this track, and watch the film here: http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/product/goldmund-words-flac

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Goldmund-words

From the album "The Malady Of Elegance" released in 2008.

Goldmund - Threnody

Instrumental version from the Ayres EP.  Purchase this album at http://www.unseen-music.com/shop

Helios - Signed I Wish You Well (Instrumental)

Purchase "Save Your Season" via:
unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/mint-julep
itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151

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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 - Aviary

Helios - Carry With Us

A song from our album "Save Your Season" as Mint Julep.This CD is available now from our shop. http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/product/mint-julep-save-your-season-cd-pre-order

salt wash of the sea
in the heavy summer rain
i feel you move in softly 
and set me free

the motion of the morning light
carried us in from the black night 
i don't want to feel anything else but you
as you hold me tonight

you say it all the time
why don't we
why don't we

let's escape from this place
you always say to me
there's an end and we can begin again
far from here

a blur of color lit our way
replaced the black and grey
i don't want to be
anywhere else but here
as you breathe me in

you say it all the time
why don't we
why don't we

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 | Why Don't We (lyrics)

Track released in April 2011 by BT. 

It is with exceptional pleasure I share this gift back with you. Thank you ALL so much for making a donation to Japanese relief efforts. As individuals we can do little, together we can do much. 

Thank you for supporting this worthy cause. Blessings to you,
_BT

ps: there is a marker for 3 minutes at the end of the track. It is not just silence, it is there for a reason.
All my best.

Hikari

From the album "Eingya" | CD, MP3 and Flac available at http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

Helios - Bless This Morning Year

Bonus track from my album "Caesura" which was only on the Japanese version of the release. 

Helios-Stasis

Now available at the http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel Surus store - http://bit.ly/Sea_of_Trees_Pre_Order

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Taken from our release on http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel

AUXCD003 - Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees

CD / Digital - June 18th (Surus) / June 25th (everywhere else)

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Kiyoko - Dulcimer

"Moiety" is a new Helios album free for download at http://www.unseen-music.com/free .

Helios - Nothing It Can

Helios - Equal Ourselves

This track I made while it was 2:42 in the morning and the sun was creeping in the blinds of my studio. I made the song from the simple loop in the beginning. I wouldn't say this is my best work ever, but I certainly enjoy it a lot.

242 Sun

I've been listening to a lot of Nils Frahm lately... I've been especially excited about his upcoming performance at Decibel Festival... I drank a fresh squeezed lime margarita... shut off all the lights... and recorded this piece in complete darkness...

For Nils

My remix of http://soundcloud.com/exist-strategy/lately

Free to download

Exist Strategy - Lately (Need a Name Remix)

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)

Krister Linder - Shrine of Time - Solar Fields remix

Thoughts Replaced of a girl I was with a long time, and I was sad enough to make this song, that was originally called "Erase you from my Mind". It was mastered by Tommy Patzius, the Master of music!

Thoughts Replayed [Rough Copy (MASTERED BY TOMMY PATZIUS)]

Mint Julep is Keith & Hollie Kenniff. 
The physical album is sold out.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic
Mint Julep music videos: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9t0eU_drQ 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxckeXA5tY&feature=relmfu 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOmpbk4ya4&feature=relmfu


Shine (from the EP ‘Adorn’)

The rivers flow, the rivers flow 
Around us for miles
The pounding waves, the pounding waves
Have taken me away

To shine, to shine, to shine brighter
To shine, to shine farther
To shine, to shine brighter
To shine, to shine farther

We had eyes the deepest green
We were dreaming of the forest
But the years have passed
Passed us by
And we have lost the focus

(chorus)

I am the breeze and I’m lifting you out
I’m the autumn leaf that brings you back to me
I am the breeze and I’m lifting you out
I’m the autumn leaf that brings you back to me

Mint Julep - Shine (free download)

Manon Theme, from the contemporary dance theatre choreographed by Kimiho Hulbert in Japan 2012.
Sync/Licensing inquiry to: info@schole-inc.com

official site: https://akirakosemura.com/
bandcamp: https://akirakosemura.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n1lW38WKgyPEIZowQ3AND?si=gwGM3HyeRACgj5z4pSVlug
itunes/apple: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/akirakosemura/216327255

Bandcamp

Manon Theme (2012)

Minor Cause is the first single off of Emancipator's new album 'Dusk to Dawn' out 1/29/13 on Loci Records.
http://locirecords.com
http://emancipatormusic.com

Buy link redirects to a free download via Loci Records Bandcamp.

Minor Cause by Emancipator

Debuting on Bonzai Elemental we have the very talented Russian producer and remixer, Alexely Samotarev. Alexey has a very impressive list of remixes and releases on labels like Drops, Lowbit, Liberty Rhythm and Baroque just to name a few, he is also the owner of Green Snake Records. Here he teams up with the vocal talents of Grape Sound.

"Missing Of Dreaming" is a true laidback, downtempo slice of music. The heavy kicks are a perfect companion for the sweet rich vocal and synth chords. Takes an almost DnB feel to it with the fantastically deep bassline but without the fast past tempo. A real sit back and chill vibe!

Missing Of Dreaming

Samotarev feat. Grape Sound - Missing Of Dreaming (Bonzai Elemental)

I composed the score to this new Facebook spot. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200156550214780&set=vb.20531316728&type=3&theater

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Helios (Keith Kenniff) - Lilt

Buy on vinyl from http://recordiaulliwgar.com
itunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/y-record-las/id619302641

Cynhyrchiad Ifan Dafydd a llais anhygoel Alys Williams. Daw'r trac yma oddi ar y casgliad amlgyfrannog 'Y Record Las' fydd allan ar label Recordiau Lliwgar Ebrill 1af 2013.
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Ifan Dafydd - Celwydd (feat. Alys Williams)

Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

Contains my own field recordings of a day out at Windsor Riverside feeding the ducks with Bluffmunkey and our son, as well as my whispers used in Bluffmunkey's https://soundcloud.com/bluffmunkey/whispered-echo. A big thank you to Bluffmunkey for his input on the strings.  

Lyrics: 

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, 
All my thoughts remain the same, 
Waiting for the day to come,
The day that I get my way. 

Ev'ry move so underhand, 
Hoping soon you'll understand,
It's all in my mind engraved,
You'll never get what you crave. 

Cover art: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/art/Hilltop-Sunset-196925917 by: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/

Crave (Let It Be)

Download the entire debut album at www.signalstovega.bandcamp.com.

02 - Redshift

03 - Oh, Rhien

04 - Fear Not The Cycle Of Life

05 - The Light Between Us

I composed an original score to this new Facebook video which launched today. https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed (the video is at the bottom of the page).

Helios shop: www.unseen.bigcartel.com

You can listen to more library pieces here: @unseenmusic

Keith Kenniff - Acres All Above (free download)

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