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Keith Kenniff-Helios-Mint Julep

What a great music

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

Completely Exposed Cole Mix

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

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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

Live at Sinagoga, Novi Sad 07.08.2011.
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Woven Hand - 06 - Horsehead Fiddle (16 Horsepower)

Still Sleeping (Feat. Steffaloo)

Amanda Palmer - High And Dry

An acoustic cover I wrote of Over The Horizon Radar by Boards of Canada

Boards of canada-over the horizon radar(helios cover)

One of the underground's hardest-working young producers, Oddisee has built a thorough body of work with a steady stream of albums, mixtapes, collaborations, and instrumental projects. On Rock Creek Park, he breaks us off with 10 joints that are universally chill, loaded with jazz-drenched loops offering wispy flutes, funked-out bass lines, breezy guitar licks, soft horns, and earthy pianos. “Closed After Dark," "Beach Dr.," and the vibraphone-and-ride-cymbal-laced "Mattered Much" are standouts, though the ‘80s-influenced "Uptown Cabaret" and yU collabo "Still Doing It" are also impressive. Though many of the tracks are similar on the low-BPM head-nod tip, they all sound great and make an ideal soundtrack for just keeping it mellow. 


Oddisee - Rock Creek Park - 08 Clara Barton

Taken from

Saturn: The Slow Jams EP

Check out the Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yfn4EXYAF4

+++ Moon Struck ---

free digital download and limited edition white 12" vinyl available here:
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Visionquest’s long-term friends, confidantes and resident party-animals Footprintz release the new single to be taken from their long-awaited debut album, ‘Dangers Of The Mouth’

You’ve come to expect dark and deep from the Visionquest sound and it’s with ‘Dangers Of The Mouth’ that Footprintz deliver. Tinged with Marc Almond-esque vocals and distant New Romantic influences, this is twisted synth-pop soul for the urban generation; production that stands on mystical plains removed from revered heroes.

Plucking cosmic basslines from distant constellations, man of the moment Jimmy Edgar has warped ‘Dangers Of The Mouth’ into a thumping and distorted, slow motion techno slant.  The second comes from Turbo’s head honcho Tiga who employs kapanlogo rhythms that open into breakbeat bass, destined for late-night sunsets and early morning sun-rises.

Having met at an after-hours party at the tender age of 15, Addy Weitzman and Clarian North’s Footprintz project is an attempt to channel the far-flung kaleidoscopic dancefloors and cosmic parallels they’ve journeyed for the last decade, into tranquilised, 80’s tinged-pop in the only way they know how.

Having already played the world over, Footprintz are a unique proposition; eager to take you to that deep and dark place in the early morning hours. Ready and willing to change the musical landscape with their debut album due in early 2013 on Visionquest, Footprintz show little signs of slowing.

A1. Footprintz - Dangers Of The Mouth

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We Are Serenades - Walking Home (Active Child Remix)

My original score for Perahu Kertas 2 (Starvision, 2012)

Berlabuh

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)

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)

Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Arms and Sleepers Remix)

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

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)

Samples from every track on the new album, For Now I Am Winter out Feb/March 2013:

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03 For Now I Am Winter - ft. Arnór Dan

09 Old Skin - ft. Arnór Dan

A beat a night for 25 nights in dedication to Seba Jun.

Night 24. On some Brion inspiration again.

Enjoy.

Night 24

WATCH THE VIDEO:
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Hey Guys, I'm a fan of Frank Ocean and I've really liked this song for a long time. Hoping he takes home a couple grammys tomorrow! Let me know what you think.

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Thinkin' Bout You - Frank Ocean Cover - Mike Tompkins

...pra voce. 

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Sango - Vem Vem (FREE DL)

from my new album, For Now I am Winter. Out now!

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For Now I Am Winter

A Stutter (feat. Arnór Dan)

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.2

A good musical friend of mine released to me his vision of Color Theory. Luke & I put this track out almost a year ago.

In the next few weeks I will be putting out remixes done from a select few of my talented pals. 

Enjoy! 

https://soundcloud.com/twincabins
(Cover photo done by - Madison Carrol)

Twin Cabins Remix - Color Theory

One of my favourite DC bands, https://soundcloud.com/pleasurecurses, just realeased their remix of our single Color Theory. This song takes the original track head on and meets it with a fucking gorgeous redesigned melody. 

I hope you all love this one as much as I do!

Tea Leigh & Luke Reed - Color Theory [PLEASURE CURSES RMX]

Maya Jane Coles - "Everything" ft Karin Park is out now:
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"Everything" is the 2nd track taken from Maya Jane Coles' upcoming album 'Comfort'

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Everything (Last Magpie Remix)

My official remix for @Disclosuremusic "You & Me"

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Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Remix)

My song "Receives", which was recently featured in a new ad by Apple. 

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Keith Kenniff - Receives (from Apple "Intention" ad)

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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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