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We are Keith & Hollie Kenniff. We provide music composition & licensing for film & TV as Unseen, & release albums as Helios, Goldmund & Mint Julep.

Ilume | Stay

Weee! | Our Purpose

HBO Max | The Sex Lives of College Girls

Bed Bath & Beyond | Home, Happier

HBO | The Runaway Bunny

Normal People

Helios | Espera

Hollie Kenniff | We All Have Places That We Miss

Keith Kenniff | It Shall Appear

Mint Julep | In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep

Helios | Domicile

Goldmund | The Time it Takes

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Discography + Projects

Keith records under the monikers Helios & Goldmund and Hollie records under her own name. They both record together as Mint Julep. Each project focuses on a distinct take on its respective genre.

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Helios

c. 2004.
Electronic, ambient, instrumental.

Raised in rural Pennsylvania, Kenniff began playing music at age 10 and studied percussion at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, releasing Helios’s 2004 debut Unomia while still in school. “At first there was no intention of actually putting anything out,” says Kenniff. “Helios was just a way for me to experiment with making music without having to get in a band—I could just do it on my own whenever I wanted.” Over the next decade, Kenniff released five more albums as Helios, along with creating post-classical music under the name Goldmund, collaborating with his wife Hollie in the shoegaze-inspired pop duo Mint Julep, and frequently composing music for film and television. In his pursuing multiple musical projects over the years, Kenniff’s continually returned to Helios as a channel for his most personal and self-contained creative output. “Making music for Helios is very soothing to me,” he says. “When I sit down to write, I turn my brain off and go on autopilot, and sooner or later the songs will come to me. I don’t think about it and I don’t ever try to force anything—if something’s going to happen, then it’s going to happen on its own.”

Goldmund

c. 2005. Solo piano, ambient, minimal.

Keith Kenniff is a Portland-based artist who works under the moniker Goldmund. Kenniff started playing drums, guitar and bass at a very young age. His musical journey took him to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with honors in 2006 with a B.A. in percussion and composition. In 2004 ‘Corduroy Road’, Keith’s first album under the moniker Goldmund, was released followed by the critically acclaimed album ‘The Malady of Elegance’ in 2008. His latest album ‘Sometimes’ was released in 2015. Keith’s music can be heard in various feature films, trailers and advertising by such clients as Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, HBO, Disney, Apple, Facebook, Google and Samsung.

Mint Julep

c. 2007. Synth, vocals, indie.

Forming Mint Julep in 2007, the Kenniffs originally had modest intentions for the band. “The project really just started out as a way to get my wife to sing, because I knew that she could but was kind of shy about it,” says Keith. Though the duo initially mined much influence from early-‘90s shoegaze, Mint Julep gradually shaped their sound by drawing inspiration from electronic music and from their shared affection for rough-edged music of varying genres (industrial for Hollie, punk rock for Keith). “It took us a while to suss out whether this was something we were just going to have fun with, or if we’d actually release our music,” Keith says. “But we ended up keeping at it, and now we’re at the point where we’ve created something with its own sound that’s very unique to us.” Noting that “it’s been great for Hollie and me to bond over making music, and to have that music feed into our relationship,” Keith points out that Mint Julep have found an even more enduring purpose in creating both Broken Devotion and its predecessor. “Writing music can be stressful, but there’s that joy that comes from creating something that you know you’ll have for a really long time,” he says. “We can finish an album and move on, and then go back years later and let the songs tell us what was happening then, what we were feeling. It’s a cool way to mark all these very specific moments in our lives together.”

Hollie Kenniff

c. 2018. Ambient, vocals, synth.

irector David Lynch once said “I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you’re quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you’re going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they’re going to hit you.” Inspired by this quote in both name and spirit, Hollie Kenniff’s The Quiet Drift is an ambient gallery of cloudlike synths, seraphic strings, echoing guitars, and other celestial textures guided to cohesion by Hollie’s own wordless singing. Though the album certainly creates (and originates from) the kind of space where Lynch’s proverbial “fish” can be caught, The Quiet Drift is a fitting title for Hollie’s own history, both recent and distant. During the course of the album’s creation, Hollie and her family moved cross-country from an island in Washington state, to an island in Maine before ultimately relocating to Canada. “As a child I visited Ontario year-round,” she explains in her own words. She continues “More than any other landscape, I think the lake, rivers, and woods there left the most enduring impression on me. The landscape and pace of life of these places will always stay with me.”
But the reverberant spaces Hollie crafts need no physical headquarters. Instead of conjuring views of nature at the ground level, her sound more readily evokes a top-down perspective, with the distinct features of the land shrinking underfoot as the listener becomes untethered from geography altogether. The Quiet Drift belongs more to the liminal spaces between life and afterlife, memory and fantasy, landscape and dreamscape, than any mappable locale. “Flourish” commences The Quiet Drift with ivy-like tendrils of voice and string that spiral around one another to become a single, exquisite organism. “Under the Loquat Tree and “Unfolding” teem with softly plucked electric guitar, brushing ambient noise, and gently punctuating piano keys lent by Hollie’s husband, labelmate, and Mint Julep musical partner Keith Kenniff aka Goldmund. “Still Falling Snow” drifts on a bed of motorik percussion that rises up from the floorboards until the surrounding elements-- dense harmonic vocal storms, synth basses, and multiple blended textures-- are consumed more and more within every consecutive drum pulse. “Dreaming Pale Dreams” is a long crescendo that starts gently and ignites into a ribbon of radiant distortion. The Quiet Drift departs with “This Part of You,” a full-spectrum epilogue that spores ever outward like the mist beneath a waterfall. Curtains of glassy synth ripple and rise only to suddenly break and reveal Hollie’s voice, the central texture of the album, as it rings solely into the abyss. Despite plenty of memorable moments and textures, no one song is meant to be the center of attention, and neither is any single element of the songs themselves. There is plenty of dynamic and songcraft on The Quiet Drift, but rather than each moment claiming distinction, Hollie brings movement to every detail at once, like a school of will-o’-the-wisps being guided down a hill, through a valley, and back up the other side.
Describing her formative years, Hollie says “As a dual US/Canadian citizen who spent my childhood in a rural town-- one that I haven’t returned to in many years-- I have a sense of not entirely belonging anywhere. When I was a teenager my close friends were male musicians, so I was also an outsider to the degree that they were wild and anarchic in a way that I wasn’t. I was a quiet book reader and avid music listener who enjoyed being around a creative group. I was also a radio DJ for alternative and punk music throughout high school.” In this light, The Quiet Drift attests that creativity is placeless, and calls into question the stereotype of artists as scene-centric city dwellers. Having come of age in the absence of metropolitan sensory overload, Hollie learned to spot the muse in nature, and within herself, instead of the echo chamber of a frenzied peer group. On The Quiet Drift Hollie Kenniff wholly escapes from such pop-culture feedback loops into transcendent, shimmering realms, and she brings the listener along with her. In this age in which we have all been called to reevaluate our relationship to indoor spaces, and seek refuge in the great outdoors, The Quiet Drift provides an apt soundtrack for such rebalancing.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to The Nature Conservancy of Canada and a women’s emergency shelter and halfway house.

Helios  | Embrace

Helios | Pearls

Goldmund | Migration

Mint Julep | Aviary

Mint Julep | To The Sea

Mint Julep | Slow Spiral

Keith Kenniff is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Maine. He graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music with a degree in percussion in 2006 and shortly after started composing music for advertising, film and TV. In 2011 he provided music for the popular Apple 4s ad campaign helmed by renowned filmmaker Mark Romanek and went on to score a series of high-profile ads for clients such as Google, Amazon, Instagram, Starbucks, and Facebook, including Facebook’s seminal “10 Years Look Back” project and Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” by Ogilvy & Mather which became the most viewed ad of all time surpassing 200 million views and took home 19 Cannes Lions including the Titanium Grand Prix in 2014. Keith has composed music for numerous HBO series including, “The Runaway Bunny”, “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm”, and “Song of Parkland” the latter of which won a Primetime Emmy in 2018 and 2020. He has composed music for several feature documentaries including the acclaimed “Blood Brother” which was awarded the grand jury prize at Sundance as well as the emmy-nominated documentary “Blood Road” and most recently scored the award-winning documentary “Emanuel”. Since 2004 he has released over 20 albums under the monikers Helios, Goldmund and Mint Julep.

Hollie Kenniff is a Canadian/American vocalist and composer who has released 4 albums of ambient/cinematic music under her own name and 4 albums, with husband Keith, as Mint Julep. In 2010 Hollie began collaborating with Keith to start a boutique licensing and composing business, Unseen, writing music for films and advertising. Her music has appeared in projects for Etsy, Samsung, Saucony, Dignity Health, Amazon and Netflix’s “Alex Strangelove” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls”.

"…one of ambient music’s leaders…" - A CLOSER LISTEN

"This is some of the nicest ambient composition we’ve heard in a while…" - BLEEP

"Drawing on the deep tones of drone, dream pop harmonies, and new age’s bright tranquility, Kenniff evokes the forests, lakes and rivers of her past and present surroundings with a zen patience." - BANDCAMP