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chill

Lovely

Moiety

Keith Kenniff

A blend of ambient music from Keith Kenniff - Helios. 
Everything belongs to him, I do not own anything.
Enjoy. ♥

Farewell (Ambient/Calm)

Keith Kenniff-Helios-Mint Julep

Ålearic

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

Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky

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

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

Helios - Signed I Wish You Well (Instrumental)

From the EP "Ayres" in 2007.   Both this and an instrumental version are available from our shop
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Helios - The Obesiant Vine

Song I wrote for a short film by David Altobelli.  Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdELmh9n1o&feature=youtu.be

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Keith Kenniff - Arrows

From the new free Helios album "Moiety" download from http://www.unseen-music.com/free

This piece was recently featured in an ad directed by Everynone: http://bit.ly/HDX7ga

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Helios - Ours Every Day

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

Helios-Stasis

another little chiller, with a lot of warmth at heart... thanks so much for everyone who takes the time to stop by and have a listen..much appreciated, makes this damn SC a very special place:))) ... hope you enjoy 

sun* strobe serenade

From my new free Helios EP "Moiety". Download the album here: http://www.unseen-music.com/free

Helios is Keith Kenniff (aka Goldmund, aka Mint Julep). Hollie Kenniff's vocals are featured in this track.

Helios - Bold Advances

Yesterday I listened to a beautiful and simple piano improvisation by David Smith, http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient/zart, and I thought it could have been beautiful to collaborate on the track. I initially thought only to add strings, then I came up with this remix. Free download, hope you'll like it!

More songs by David at: http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient

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TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv - Zart (Halo Remix)

Winter Lullaby is the opening and ending theme of Late Winter Tales, and really depicts the atmosphere of a snowy, wintry evening. It's a little and sweet lullaby.. wishing you goodnight. :)

Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius / http://soundcloud.com/alveol

Sunset

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 9.Winter Lullaby II

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

Helios - Nothing It Can

Helios - Your Zenith

Helios - In Everything Was Given

Helios - Nature People

入梅 (Nyūbai) literally means Entering the Rainy Season (tsuyu(梅雨)) in Japanese; the season lasts in Japan from early June to mid July.
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Photo: "June Bokeh" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnystella/">Jonathan Spence</a>

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 2.Nyūbai

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Sileo

A little ambient piece I wrote yesterday afternoon.. Sorry not to have so much time for composing music until July, but I really wanted to share something with you in a little free time from my studying.

I always thought of ambient music as a way to effectively depict soundscapes with notes and musical colors (frequencies, tones, silences).

I’ll listen to this with closed eyes and I’ll see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. Like emerging from the deepness of your thoughts, and sorrounding you with its presence, because it's you who has been creating it. Music conceals places in its notes.

I called that place "The wastelands", a distant landscape brought back to our time for a little moment, as it were while the wind blew in the cloudy sky and the sun set over the horizon of the open fields.

Just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there's no trace left, if not a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime...

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Halo - 3.The Wastelands

this is a track for all dreamers..me being one of them, hope you enjoy it:))

finding ghosts in the starlight

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)

this music is about people , places and moments in the past... some almost but not completely forgotten.

somewhere you are

Wonderful remix by New Zealand-based composer Rhian Sheehan from the forthcoming "Helios - Remixed" album due out on December 1st. 

You can pre-order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

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Helios - Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

A Childish Late Autumn Moment
from <a href="http://bc.haloproject.co.uk/album/scenes-from-the-four-seasons">Scene from the four seasons</a>, now out on bandcamp. :)
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Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 1.Late Autumn Melody

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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)

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

Three short piano variations. 

Photo by Michael Muller. 

Keith Kenniff - Hills 1

Keith Kenniff - Hills 2

Keith Kenniff - Hills 3

I was commissioned to write the score for a short film by Dove about a social experiment that explores how women view their own beauty in contrast to what others see.

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaOjMXyJGk

Keith Kenniff - Portraits Pt.1

Keith Kenniff - Portraits Pt.2

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.

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