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Beauty

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Helios-Stasis

Wave Rider features the esteemed Quartet with a stronghold of Eugene Ball (trumpet), Ian Whitehurst (tenor saxophone), Joe Talia (drums) and Andrea Keller (piano), alongside formidable improviser Erkki Veltheim (violin), Helen Ayers (violin), Matt Laing (viola) and Zoe Knighton (cello).

Illuminate by Andrea Keller Quartet with Strings

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

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)

Featuring Mrs Bluffmunkey (http://soundcloud.com/inaiya) on vocals and ME on guitar this time :-)



Everything ft Inaiya

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

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

A track I wrote which I contributed to the new documentary "Outliers"

http://shop.outliersiceland.com/product/outliers-vol-i-iceland-bluray-cd-booklet

The film and soundtrack package on BluRay and CD, with a 12-page visual journal. Includes a link to the digital copy of the soundtrack.

Music composed and curated by Deru. Photography by Tim Navis and Kim Holtermand. Film produced by Scenic.

Featuring music by: 
Loscil 
Goldmund 
Asura 
Joby Talbot 
Ryuichi Sakamoto 
Sweatson Klank 
Heathered Pearls 
Thomas Knak 
Eskmo 
Son Lux 
A Lull 
Shigeto 
Shipping in May.

Use promo code "OVIPRESALE" until May 1st to get 10% off your order.

Goldmund - The Wind Sings

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

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)

http://www.surus.co.uk/auxiliary

Buy now at the Auxiliary Surus store

Kiyoko - Dulcimer

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

Helios - Nothing It Can

Slow Building, Ambient, Electronic, Piano. 

Slow Building - Ambient - Electronic - Piano

note

http://futurescience.bandcamp.com/album/beat-compilation-vol-2

Dinosaur Cowboy

Holy Other's debut album 'Held' OUT NOW

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/held/id551648256 
http://www.insound.com/Held-CD-Holy-Other/P/INS111344/ 
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/560078-holy-other-held-gatefold-vinyl 
https://bleep.com/release/37521 
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Holy Other - Held

Ridden

Written, mixed and produced at 'The Zoo'.

Boddika, Joy Orbison & Pearson Sound - Faint

Anibelimbo - Soliaris ( Sad Ambient electronic piano - no vocal yet DEMO )

Electronic piano

From the ballet " suivront 1000 ans de calme" for Angelin Preljocaj & the Bolchoi theater.

The CD of music and a booklet of the ballet  are available at the end of the show and through the mailorder srevice of ballet Preljocaj: http://www.preljocaj.org

Laurent Garnier " La trève" (ballet "suivront 1000 ans de calme")

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)

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)

Untitled 1 pullmeup.de

Music by Fabrizio Paterlini

Fabrizio plays the piano
Live electronics: London DC





Summer nights

Music by Fabrizio Paterlini

Fabrizio plays the piano

Live electronics: London DC

Violin: Eugenio Gargiola
Cello: Silvia Dal Paos


My perfect time

MANABU OHISHI TRIO - ETERNAL

Manabu Ohishi: piano / pianica / glockenspie
Jean-Philippe Viret: bass
Simon Goubert: drums

MANABU OHISHI TRIO - Hinata

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