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2013

Mint Julep

Alt Rock

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A few songs from some of my albums as Helios | Purchase at http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/

Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky

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

Goldmund - Threnody

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

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

Memory Tapes - Pink Stones

Distance And Comfort
Released January 15, 2008

Written, performed and recorded by Ben Kenney. Mastered by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters. 
©2008 Ghetto Crush Industries 
℗2008 The Ghetto Crush (A.S.C.A.P.)

Eulogy

Reign Of Terror

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

Burn The Tapes
Released October 1, 2010

Written, performed and recorded by Ben Kenney. Mastered by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters. Guest vocals on "Habit" by Irene Lambers. 
©2010 Ghetto Crush Industries
℗2010 The Ghetto Crush (A.S.C.A.P.)

Aftertouch

Memoryhouse on Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/memoryhouse

The Slideshow Effect

Walk With Me

Memoryhouse - Walk With Me

NEW SINGLE

To download it, go to TRIPLEJUNEARTHED.COM/JUBILANTS

To buy it, go to https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spain-single/id580307997

Online:

FACEBOOK.COM/JUBILANTS

JUBILANTS.BANDCAMP.COM

TWITTER.COM/WEAREJUBILANTS

YOUTUBE.COM/WEAREJUBILANTS

Spain

02 - Peter Bjorn and John - It Don't Move Me

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

Helios-Stasis

Now available at the http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel Surus store - http://bit.ly/Sea_of_Trees_Pre_Order

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Taken from our release on http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel

AUXCD003 - Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees

CD / Digital - June 18th (Surus) / June 25th (everywhere else)

http://www.surus.co.uk/auxiliary

Buy now at the Auxiliary Surus store

Kiyoko - Dulcimer

www.hotassun.com
www.lastgangentertainment.com

Hot As Sun - Come Come

Memory Tapes - Run Out

"Moiety" is a new Helios album free for download at http://www.unseen-music.com/free .

Helios - Nothing It Can

From Matt and Kim's album LIGHTNING

Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lightning/id552515747

"Let's Go" Official Video: http://vevo.ly/TzrXIx

www.mattandkimmusic.com
www.twitter.com/mattandkim
www.facebook.com/mattandkim

Lightning

Let’s Go

Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune (Feat. Christine Hoberg)
Released on Glassnote / Flight Facilities 2012 
Remix Package: http://smarturl.it/CDL-remixes
Now appears as part of the debut album Down To Earth 
iTunes Worldwide - http://smarturl.it/downtoearthiTunes

Official Film Clip: http://youtu.be/Jcu1AHaTchM

Buy on iTunes

Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune (feat. Christine Hoberg)

Mint Julep is Keith & Hollie Kenniff. Our album Save Your Season is out now.

You can purchase the album here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/mint-julep-save-your-season-mp3-flac
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151 

Mint Julep on 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

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 - Save Your Season - FREE DOWNLOAD

Cowboys (EP) avail now - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cowboys-ep/id537901608

Hungry Hearts

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)

I was commissioned to write the score for a short film by TOMS about their first "Ticket To Give" trip, which helped distribute shoes to kids in Honduras. 

View the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQa4qJAZuLo
www.toms.com
www.unseen-music.com

© TOMS


Keith Kenniff - Giving

STRFKR - While I'm Alive

New track I wrote for my music licensing library.  You can listen to the rest of the library pieces at http://www.unseen-music.com/library

Keith Kenniff - Where We Go

I composed this piece for a TV spot for The American Red Cross in conjunction with their relief efforts for hurricane Sandy. 

View the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-oWo7uLtZw&feature=youtu.be

http://www.redcross.org/

Keith Kenniff - Thank You

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)

This is the first of a series of pieces I am creating that are centered around a Rhodes piano. This will be for my first solo album entitled Colorful Language.

The point of view for this Rhodes sound came from sticking my iphone on top of the piano when I was improvising on a friend's Rhodes in N.C. The phone picked up mostly the sound of the hammers hitting the tines. I liked that sound so much that, when I started recording this piece, I miked the Rhodes with the lid off and the speaker volume just barely on. The speaker's role is almost just to add its inherent hiss haha. I bought this Rhodes earlier this year and it needed a bit of repair and tuning. The tuning isn't perfect, but I kinda dig that. I spent a good bit of time poking around inside the piano, learning how it worked, and living with its mechanisms for a good while while fixing little issues. This may have been the influence to give this piece a "construct/destruct," "build and rebuild" kind of feeling. I often create from a very mental image point of view and that's what was lingering in my mind during production. Well, there's all that if anyone cares to know. This piece is nearly done (!). I just need to remove a couple of edit clicks, sit on it for a bit, and see if I need to add or take away any stuff :-) It has not yet been properly mastered. Video coming SOON!
 
I am also working on some big, bombastic horn/string pieces with huge beats that I'm excited to share soon. Thank you for listening. 

Envelopes Copyright McKay Garner 2012

Envelopes

You can hear all of the library tracks at unseen-music.com/library


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it's so quiet you can hear
the fireflies circle near
far away from the city lights
they shine for us in the night

Keith Kenniff - Chasing Fireflies

Low / Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/low
"So Blue" from Low's 03/19/13 release, The Invisible Way
http://www.subpop.com/releases/low/full_lengths/the_invisible_way

Order the album
iTunes  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-invisible-way/id593703622
Amazon http://amzn.com/B00ABIRGAS
Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/releases/low/full_lengths/the_invisible_way 

Low Website http://chairkickers.com/
Like Low on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Low/146939805330044
Low on Tour http://www.subpop.com/tours/low

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The Invisible Way

So Blue

Low - So Blue

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)

Lovelectric delivers a "rock" version of Swedish House Mafia's hit song "Don't You Worry Child." Download it for free!

Don't You Worry Child (Originally by Swedish House Mafia)

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