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Damien Jurado joins Moby for 'Almost Home', taken from his new album 'Innocents', which comes out on 30 Sept and is available to pre-order now, below. Watch the teaser video here: http://youtu.be/LJf6A3vhfWo

Damien will also be joining Moby when he plays 3 nights at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 3, & 4. Tickets available here: http://www.moby.com/fonda

Pre-order 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=soundcloud.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=soundcloud.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=soundcloud.description

Buy Innocents

Almost Home (with Damien Jurado) (teaser)

Buy 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=soundcloud.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=soundcloud.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=soundcloud.description

Hear more from 'Innocents':
http://innocents.moby.com

Moby on 'Almost Home':

“One thing that makes L.A. great is you live in your cars, so you listen to a lot of radio; there, public radio stations like KXLU and KCRW are actually valid, big stations that people listen to. One day, I was listening to ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ on KCRW, and I heard a Damien Jurado song. I simply fell in love with his voice – this most beautiful, vulnerable, pristine, angelic voice. Originally ‘Almost Home’ was a fully finished song, but I love Damien’s approach to melody and lyrics, so I gave it to him as an instrumental. What he did was much better than anything I’d come up with.”


Innocents

Almost Home (feat. Damien Jurado)

Buy on iTunes

Improvisation. 

Photo by Jake Erwin Berry

Goldmund - Improvisation 11:15pm

Pre-order Automatic Now!
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/KaskadeAutomatic_IT
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/KaskadeAutomatic_AZ
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/KaskadeAutomatic_GP

This is a mash up I made for Beyond Wonderland.  

Kaskade & Deadmau5 VS. Michael Woods - Move For First Aid -  Kaskade Mash Up

download

Gaussian Blur

Alternate version of https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff/keith-kenniff-to-see

All rights reserved. 

http://www.unseen-music.com

Photo by my brother Colin Kenniff

Keith Kenniff - To Be

Call Your Girlfriend

Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me Remix)

From the EP "Ayres" in 2007.   Both this and an instrumental version are available from our shop
http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/helios

Helios - The Obesiant Vine

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

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

Buy the album

Marconi Union - Weightless

Wait For Me

Song I wrote for a short film by David Altobelli.  Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdELmh9n1o&feature=youtu.be

Buy the track here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/keith-kenniff-arrows

Keith Kenniff records as Helios, Goldmund and Mint Julep | http://www.unseen-music.com

Keith Kenniff - Arrows

From the new free Helios album "Moiety" download from http://www.unseen-music.com/free

This piece was recently featured in an ad directed by Everynone: http://bit.ly/HDX7ga

http://www.everynone.com

Download this album FREE

Helios - Ours Every Day

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

Helios-Stasis

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)

Stina Nordenstam - Little Star (B-Zet remix)

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

www.rhiansheehan.com

Helios - Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

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)

Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (Ben Boysen 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)

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 - The Wind Beneath The Trees

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

Helios shop: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

An as of yet unreleased Helios track. 
For licensing inquiries please contact Keith via unseen-music.com/contact

Helios - Silverlight

I composed an original score to this new Facebook video which launched today. https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed (the video is at the bottom of the page).

Helios shop: www.unseen.bigcartel.com

You can listen to more library pieces here: @unseenmusic

Keith Kenniff - Acres All Above (free download)

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

Sunday

i first heard iamamiwhoami at a restaurant in london a few years ago.  after hearing them i emailed my manager, eric, and asked 'have you heard of this band iamamiwhoami?' and he wrote back, 'yes, we manage them'.  

when they asked me to do a remix for them i happily said 'yes', as i'm a fan of theirs.  and when i heard the song they wanted me to remix i realized that i didn't want to deconstruct it and change it, but rather just add melodic and structural elements to it, to enhance what they'd already done.  

@moby

more here: http://www.youtube.com/iamamiwhoami

You can now download high quality versions of the 'y' remixes by Moby, Joe Goddard and Brodinski on Beatport, here: http://btprt.dj/12fUr4N

y remixes

y (Moby Remix)

WANT

iamamiwhoami; y (Moby remix)

I contributed a remix to a wonderful collection of field recordings captured in and around Cape Cod done by percussionist/teacher Steve Wilkes.   Other artists featured on the album include Taylor Deupree, Marcus Fischer, Simon Scott, and Loscil.

http://hearcapecod.org/soundsignals/

http://www.unseen-music.com

Goldmund - Signals, No.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