Mint Julep

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Keith Kenniff

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Mint Julep is Hollie and Keith Kenniff.  We recently released an EP "Adorn", and our new album "Save Your Season" has just been released.

Massive Atack - Angel vs. M83 - Gone (Live)

From the forthcoming album "Save Your Season" out this Fall.  
Mint Julep is Hollie and Keith Kenniff. 

Mint Julep - Cherry Radio (preview)

From the forthcoming album "Save Your Season" out this Fall.  
Mint Julep is Hollie and Keith Kenniff. 


Mint Julep - To The Sea (preview)

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

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (unreleased acoustic version)

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)

Hysteria

The Resistance

Uprising

Origin of Symmetry

New Born

Desire - Under Your Spell

A cover Hollie and I did as Mint Julep of a Headphones (aka David Bazan) song.  

Our new Mint Julep album "Save Your Season" is available now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151

Mint Julep - I Never Wanted You (Headphones Cover)

From the EP "Adorn" | available as Flac, mp3 here: http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/mint-julep

Mint Julep is Keith and Hollie Kenniff

Mint Julep - Arristea

Gambit Card - My best shoes

Converging In the Quiet

Listen to Chris' newest single, "Sweet Love" now!

Listen to the full track here: http://youtu.be/jHCy0Wi2IrA

Fortune (Expanded Edition)

Sweet Love

Give You The Ghost

Amongster

Oshin is out June 26th on Captured Tracks

DIIV // Doused

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ODESZA - How Did I Get Here

My Tribute Remix for an awesome track by "Hammock" (http://soundcloud.com/hammockmusic)
Free Download.
Original track: http://hammock.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-almost-see-you
Original picture used for the cover art by "Sara Santirocco" (http://www.sarasantirocco.com/en)

Hammock - I Can Almost See You (Need a Name Tribute)

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Debut EP 'Aesthetics' out now: http://smarturl.it/AestheticsEP

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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)

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)

Tijani - Breathe Out (Produced by Great Skies)

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Tijani - Breathe Out (Prod. Great Skies) FREE DOWNLOAD

Beautiful remix from the album "Helios - Remixed" out now!.

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Helios - The Obesiant Vine (Hammock Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

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This is the release of my new remix of Delerium - Days Turn Into Nights. Delerium has been a huge influience on me, long before I even got into EDM. Really excited to share this one with you!

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Delerium - Days Turn Into Nights (Seven Lions Remix)

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". 

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http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Re (Helios Rework)

"Anahita" is the debut single from New York-based Wilsen. 

"Anahita" is taken from the band's self-released mini-album "Sirens" that was made available in 2013. 

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Wilsen - "Anahita"

Mint Julep - No Letting Go

It's my 20th birthday, and I have something to give to you all, this collaboration I did with http://soundcloud.com/dirtyoysterpearl

We are super happy with this track and we are more than happy to share it with all of you!

Thank you for all of your support, you guys are SUPER THE BEST <3333

Download link: http://on.fb.me/RPeYa2

LYRICS:

I remember you said "trust in you"
You told me that life was too short to be anything but happy
And that falling down was just a part of life
And to get back up was to really live again

I remember you said we shared the same suffering and I remember
All your honesty started to get to me
And now all I have is time left
To think about the things that you had said

Time is where we are
Time is where we've been
Time is being lost and found again

Time it goes so fast
Time sometimes feels slow
Time it ticks
And then we have to go

Time is all I have
And I'm dreaming
(x2)

Time it goes so fast
Time sometimes feels slow
Time it ticks
And then we have to go

Time is where we are
Time is where we've been
Time is being lost and found again

In your eyes(x6)

Now all I have left is time
And time brings back memories
And the memories bring back feelings
And the sad truth is
We're all missing someone
And hoping they're missing us too

Buddygirrl - Timekeeper (Feat. CoMa) [Download in description]

I just always loved this track, so I decided to cover it.

Bittersweet symphony (The Verve cover)

This Desert

Sleepwalkers

The Hundred In The Hands - Sleepwalkers

The Killers - Runaways (RAC Mix)

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Remix by André Allen Anjos.
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The Killers - Runaways (RAC Mix)

My wife, Hollie and I (aka Mint Julep) are hard at work on a new album, but in the meantime we decided to offer a brand new track for free.  It is exclusively available through us and will not be on our upcoming album "Broken Devotion".  
www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic | twitter.com/_mintjulep

Mint Julep music videos:
http://vimeo.com/36867236
http://vimeo.com/28453491
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxckeXA5tY

don't think twice, close your eyes
and break her fall again
feel the words, out of her lips
as she walks out in the rain

hear for once, the way it was
it collides with us
full of fire, in an escape
the fading light, and the waves that break

don't you want to tame her
don't you want to tame her

your soft lips in mine
an island of stars, in the shining light
i get lost in it all the time

the distance in the dark
the places in between us
dreamless as a ghost
still as the air that moves through us

don't you want to tame her
don't you want to tame her

_________

photo by Alison Scarpulla 
http://shuttermade.com/alisonscarpulla

Mint Julep - Tame

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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).

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You can listen to more library pieces here: @unseenmusic

Keith Kenniff - Acres All Above (free download)

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I Love Summer

Fine China

While writing our forthcoming album, "Broken Devotion", Hollie and I took a bit of a detour to write this song for fun and welcome in the summer. 

Mint Julep on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic / http://www.unseen-music.com

Forget how we got here
Wake to the melody
And wait with me until it's time to go

In the setting sun we feel it
You know it's not too late
So I think you should stay here with me

From the city to the beach house
With the sky like the sea
And the sea like the sky that lies above me

The salt from the water clings to our lips
And stays with us like last night's kiss
We stand at the edge, draw me into you
Retrace our steps as they wash away

From the city to the beach house
With the sky like the sea
And the sea like the sky that lies above me

Mint Julep - Soon the Sea

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