2013

ambient

Calm

Working

Peace

Goods

Hope

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

Portraits

From the album "The Malady Of Elegance" released in 2008.

Goldmund - Threnody

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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

UPDATE: the track is now available for free download! This winter I am releasing a new Goldmund album called "All Will Prosper".The album is a collection of re-arrangements of folk songs from the American Civil War."Shenandoah" is one of the songs featured on the album, which will contain 14 other songs.


Goldmund - Shenandoah

I was commissioned to write these pieces for a series of mini documentaries made for Prudential. 

The films were shot by the wonderful directors at Everynone | http://www.everynone.com

View the films here: http://unseenmusic.tumblr.com/post/17381796561/day-one

Keith Kenniff - Mujahid

www.rhiansheehan.com

Buy here: http://rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/album/stories-from-elsewhere

Sileo

Deep/Shoegazing/Overdriven/Emotional 10 minutes long ambient single.
This is something different, I could define it like an infinte explosion of sensations and feelings regarding this period of my life.

Free to download.

Need a Name - The Key to Your Heart

My remix of http://soundcloud.com/exist-strategy/lately

Free to download

Exist Strategy - Lately (Need a Name Remix)

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)

My remix for "Stand Alone Forever", FREE TO DOWNLOAD!

Project Video (with lyrics): http://youtu.be/0NF9j0kEKkI

Lyrics:

We traveled so far
forgettin' 
our brief
it's you, you and me
i was watching your back 
while you were watching mine
and everything flows 
waiting for us
rise your hands to cover your heart from the fire
and tomorrow you could breath again
me and you are same

rise your hand to cover your eyes from the sun
and tomorrow you can see my face again

it's you, you and me...
and everything flows...

Stand Alone Forever - Ma Friend (Need a Name Remix)

Track for new lyfstyl compilation "Ad/ven/ture"
http://lyfstyl.bandcamp.com/album/ad-ven-ture

FREE DOWNLOAD

Sequatchie Eve

Track 4 from 'We Never Left' - Available from https://straytheories.bandcamp.com/album/we-never-left

Download

We Never Left

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


Behind the sky

Helios shop: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

A free download of an older Helios track.  Several years ago I made my wife a disc of almost all of my unreleased Helios and Goldmund music.  I'm planning to share a few of the tracks here in the coming weeks.  

I also plan to do a Kickstarter in March for the self-release of the next Helios and Mint Julep albums and accompanying music videos. 

For licensing inquiries please contact Keith via unseen-music.com/contact

www.unseen-music.com

Helios - Alma (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Helios shop: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

Please contact Keith at unseen@unseen-music to obtain a license for this library track. You can listen to more library pieces here: https://soundcloud.com/unseenmusic



Keith Kenniff feat Hollie Kenniff - Glow (free mp3 download)

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)

Three short piano variations. 

Photo by Michael Muller. 

Keith Kenniff - Hills 1

Keith Kenniff - Hills 2

Keith Kenniff - Hills 3

Coldplay - Trouble (Blackmill Chillstep)

Blackmill Feat. Veela - Life (Full Version)

Blackmill - The Light (Full Version)

The original soundtrack EP of ITV's hit series Broadchurch featuring music written by Ólafur Arnalds - available for the first time for download on Mercury Classics from 15th April 2013.

Ólafur Arnalds: 04 Arcade

Ólafur Arnalds: 05 Broken

Ólafur Arnalds: 06 Beth's Theme

Feeling Good

Keith Kenniff - Portraits Pt.1

Keith Kenniff - Portraits Pt.2

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