Departures

My wife and I are releasing a more ambient album (as a counterpoint to some of the stuff we do as Mint Julep). .The album will be called "A Deep and Dreamless Sleep"
We are offering "This Time Tomorrow" for free download before the album is released.


A Pale Fire - This Time Tomorrow - free download

Hyperion (Piano Version) [Rhian Sheehan Remix]

Ried-Brig

Blurstem’s 'Remnants and Whispers' is an album of memory-of echoes and fragments, of moments gathered and reshaped, of the past carried gently into the present. Released on Fluid Audio, renowned for its exquisitely crafted physical editions, this collection of soundscapes and textures is imbued with nostalgia, intimacy, and the quiet weight of time.

The album weaves together the delicate and the vast, the small and the sweeping. Tiny, almost imperceptible guitar plucks flicker like candlelight amidst expansive ambient washes. The sonic palette moves seamlessly between lo-fi warmth and pristine clarity, embracing the imperfections of cassette recording and the wobbly, warbled charm of home videos from a lost era. Each track breathes with a human touch-organic instruments processed and reimagined, from tremolo strings pitched and resampled on “Tethered” to layers of sound that feel like old photographs brought to life.

At its heart, 'Remnants and Whispers' explores the idea of remnants-what we carry with us through life, the fragments of friendships, memories, and fleeting moments that shape who we are. Much like the album’s sonic construction-built from past sketches, ideas, and textures revived and given new form-the music mirrors the way we collect and reinterpret our own experiences over time.

This ethos extends beyond the music itself into its physical presentation, with Fluid Audio’s deluxe edition incorporating 1920s sheet music and book fragments as old as the 1890s-historical relics that feel like the perfect visual counterpart to the album’s themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The tactile nature of these artifacts deepens the listening experience, making 'Remnants and Whispers' not just an album, but a tangible connection to the past.

Mastered on Bartels’ late ’60s analog tape machine, the album’s final touch further enhances its warmth and character, adding an unmistakable depth and timeless quality to its sonic palette.

A meditation on change, nostalgia, and the beauty of imperfection, Remnants and Whispers is an invitation to pause, reflect, and listen-not just to the music, but to the quiet echoes of our own stories.

Music: Blurstem
Mastering: Bartels
Design: Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk
www.blurstem.bandcamp.com

Blurstem - Along the Rails

We finished a new Mint Julep track yesterday! Hope you enjoy it! :)💜 
https://heliosmusic.bandcamp.com/track/holding-on

Truth be told, I’ve been holding on to more than just moments - 
A new Mint Julep album has been quietly waiting in the wings.
Hoping to share it with you in the next few months! :)
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I’ve been holding on to moments
That I always thought would never leave
Every step, a soft reminder
Of all the places we can’t reach

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Wrote our names in summer rain
Now I trace those same old patterns again
Calling out, you say my name
As if you never went away

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Holding On

from the original soundtrack of the same name released by Matthew Cooper on Temporary Residence Limited 2011

Some Days Are Better Than Others

'The Undivided Five', out now on Ninja Tune: https://awvfts.lnk.to/fiveSo

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The Undivided Five

Aqualung, Motherfucker (feat. Adam Wiltzie & Dustin O'Halloran)

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)

From full-length Pearls & Smoke.

Now available as digital and CD Digipak, both currently available to purchase from the bandcamp store:

http://glossata.bandcamp.com/

Swallowed Up in an Unalterable Dream

THESIS 18 is a vinyl & digital release available from THESIS PROJECT. It can be found on Bandcamp or at thesisproject.us

https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/

THESIS 18 (SAMPLE)Black Brunswicker, Lucy Gooch & zaké

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

A Pale Fire - This Time Tomorrow - free download

Keith Kenniff