Ambient

Helios

another world

beautiful things

helios

Calm

Great Music used to Create and Design....

Design

Mirrors 1

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

All rights reserved.  For licensing requests please contact Keith Kenniff at http://www.unseen-music.com/contact

Keith Kenniff - Unravelled

Written for my son shortly before he was born.

Keith Kenniff - Bairn

Remix I did for Balmorhea's "All Is Wild All Is Silent" album

Balmorhea-Truth (Helios Remix)

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

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

Alternate version of https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff/keith-kenniff-to-see

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Photo by my brother Colin Kenniff

Keith Kenniff - To Be

A previously unreleased Helios song that is on our (Unseen's) benefit album to help Japanese relief efforts, "For Nihon", which is available at http://www.unseen-music.com/shop

100% of the profits from the sale of the record will go toward a relief fund set up by the Japan Society.

Helios - Sing The Same Song Twice

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All rights reserved.  Unseen 2014

Keith Kenniff - Map

All rights reserved. 2014 Unseen

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Goldmund - Improvisation 9pm

Helios - Halving the Compass

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

Helios - Signed I Wish You Well (Instrumental)

Touch The Sky Acoustic Version - Hillsong UNITED

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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

This track is from the album Home and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joshgarrels6

At the Table

UPDATE: the track is now available for free download! This winter I am releasing a new Goldmund album called "All Will Prosper".The album is a collection of re-arrangements of folk songs from the American Civil War."Shenandoah" is one of the songs featured on the album, which will contain 14 other songs.


Goldmund - Shenandoah

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

Helios-Stasis

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

Helios - Nothing It Can

Helios - Your Zenith

Helios - Nature People

Helios - Equal Ourselves

Sampler from an upcoming release, Helios - "Remixed", due out on my label Unseen in December 2012.  Pre-order this release as MP3/FLAC or CD here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

Tracklisting:

1. Hope Valley Hill (Arms and Sleepers Remix)
2. Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix)
3. The Obeisant Vine (Hammock Remix)
4. Every Hair on Your Head (Ben Boysen Remix)
5. First Dream Called Ocean (Colin Kenniff Remix)
6. Hollie (Rafael Anton Irisarri Remix)
7. Falling In Swirls(Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters Remix)
8. Helios - Caera * (Previously unreleased)

Helios "Remixed" sampler

Brian Eno - An Ending

Beautiful remix from the album "Helios - Remixed" out now!.

You can order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

www.hammockmusic.com

Helios - The Obesiant Vine (Hammock Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

I was excited to see this wonderful collection of little piano vignettes released by Nils, one of my favorite piano players and people. The simplicity of these pieces and the honesty I feel in the music communicated a sense of ease and exploration that I immediately connected with.  This is my rework of a beautiful passage contained in the song "Re". 

http://www.unseen-music.com

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Re (Helios Rework)

This song and video are dedicated to the men and women who help make and keep our country free.  In that same spirit, please feel free to download and share.


It’s Time EP

America

Track from an upcoming Helios album coming out in 2011 |  Purchase Helios albums at http://www.unseen-music.com

Helios - Sequoia (Unreleased)

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

Four short piano themes / variations. 

For licensing and other information please visit unseen-music.com

Photo by Jocelyn Catterson and Jeremy Daigneault 

Keith Kenniff - Memories 1

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