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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

More information and download <a href="http://www.roughtraderecords.com/panthaduprince/2263/free-download-pantha-du-prince-revels-in-the-splendour">here</a>.



Black Noise

The Splendour

Sugar Hill and Vanguard Records are making these two amazing albums available on vinyl for the first time in celebration of Black Friday this November. 
 
Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein 
This extremely well-received 2010 album co-produced by Bobby Bare and Bobby Bare, Jr. features original Shel Silverstein artwork and performances by My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, John Prine, Dr. Dog, Black Francis & Joey Santiago, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, and more.  Issued on 2xLP White Vinyl and Mastered at 45rpm for maximum fidelity!


I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey  
This acclaimed 2006 tribute album co-produced by M. Ward and Stephen Brower features performances by Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, M. Ward, Calexico, Fruit Bats, Lee Ranaldo, Jason Lytle, and more.  Issued on 2xLP Green Marbled Vinyl and Mastered at 45rpm for maximum fidelity!


Calexico - Dance Of Death (From I am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey)

Purchase SMM: Opiate in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/various-artists-smm-opiate

Noveller - Bright Clouds Bloom

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 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

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

Everynone | http://www.everynone.com

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

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 - Aviary

'Terrible Angels' is taken from her forthcoming album "Stage Whisper" (Live & Bonus) out 7/11/11


Charlotte Gainsbourg - Terrible Angels

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)

12 tracks on free download to start 2012 !

Charlotte Gainsbourg - 555 (Metronomy Remix)

The Strumbellas eponymous EP was self-recorded, handmade, and self-released in September 2009. Featuring a stripped down, early version of the band’s current sound, the EP contains five golden cuts that sparkle with banjo, fiddle, and clarinet. Early versions of “Underneath a Mountain” and “I Ain’t Tryin’ To Die” make their first appearance here, along with bluegrass barnburner “Indiana” and the rare ballad “Carry My Body”. 

Well-reviewed by Now Magazine, Imprint, and various blogs [we should name one or two], The Strumbellas EP captured the band’s young sound and established them as up-and-comers in Toronto’s alt-country scene. A handful of copies of the limited run are still available at shows and via email. An electronic copy is available for sale at The Strumbellas Bandcamp.


Indiana

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

Helios-Stasis

Rise

Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune (Feat. Christine Hoberg)
Released on Glassnote / Flight Facilities 2012 
Remix Package: http://smarturl.it/CDL-remixes
Now appears as part of the debut album Down To Earth 
iTunes Worldwide - http://smarturl.it/downtoearthiTunes

Official Film Clip: http://youtu.be/Jcu1AHaTchM

Buy on iTunes

Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune (feat. Christine Hoberg)

A track off my debut EP, "Sailing". You can purchase it here: http://themusicplaysyou.com

I'd love to hear your feedback. Drop comments in and tell me what you like!

Gear for this song: 
Guitars - Fender '76 Telecaster, Diamond Compressor, EXH Micro Pog, TIM Pearl, Strymon Timeline, Strymon blueSky, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Vox AC30

Shoreline

Don't Forget The Sun

Feel Alive

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

A track off my debut EP, "Sailing". You can purchase it here: http://themusicplaysyou.com

I'd love to hear your feedback. Drop comments in and tell me what you like!

Gear for this song: 
Guitars - Epiphone SG Special, Fender '72 Telecaster Deluxe Reissue, Diamond Compressor, TIM Pearl, Paul C Timmy, Strymon El Capistan, Strymon Timeline, BOSS RV-5, Strymon blueSky, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Bass - MusicMan Stingray 5 HH, Strymon Timeline, Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI

Reflection

Feist - 1 2 3 4

The Sadies - Another Year Again

An orchestral remix of our first release "Beam." Thanks to all you fans for all the support, this is for you!

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Beam (The Orchestral Mix) *FREE DOWNLOAD*

What do you do when a live project exceeds its own ambitions? Just keep doing the wonderful concerts and eventually head to the studio. Sounds simple and conclusive. In the case of Karocel, that was exactly how they went about it and surprisingly, all six band members made it happen. Though the four Marbert Rocels, Mathias Kaden and Michael-Mitchi-Nagler have known each other from their hometown along the Gera-Jena-Erfurt corridor, and the Karocel live shows have been well received: an album is an entirely different beast. You can add to that the full schedule of events and shows for everyone involved and the various songwriter habits of each. Yet still, the wish to work together on a deeper level stood out front for everyone. The fun they had on the stage brought Karocel the best idea since the carousel. That is, to take the live show and produce it in the studio without a concrete sound in the subconscious. In the fall of 2012 everyone got together in the studio of Marbert Rocel for three intense jam sessions. With a single click it all began – after a while everything was knotted together only to be woven through the mixer where it then lay. Post-production vocals and overdubs weren’t needed. The 10 pearls that emerged from those sessions glistened in its raw form that the direct multifaceted nature of a Karocel event is now available in album format. In various dramatic curves ‘Plaited’ prances over the dance-floor. Right smack in the middle there are tracks like ‘This One’, ‘Tease You’ and ‘Undo’ and the bar shaking ‘Vox, ‘Watts’, ‘Boys’ and ‘Don’t Play’ the kissing on the sofa ‘Without’ and the one on the way home ‘Parallels’. How nice that all the pieces will be in fact available under the stars and in the homey confines of the club to be felt and appreciated. Just like when they were recorded Karocel took everything including mixing the tracks and the artwork in their own hands. Plaited is a complete work of art, no question.

Plaited

Whiteout

Karocel - Whiteout

Lee Jones - A Perfect Kick (Original Version) is taken from WGVinyl012 Lee Jones - A Perfect Kick. Available on 12" vinyl and digital.

More info on http://water-gate.de

Order 12"!

Lee Jones  - A Perfect Kick (Original Version)

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