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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.
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.
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