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

We have spent the past two decades creating bespoke music for advertising and film media.  The Unseen music library has over 300 ready-to-go songs written specifically for use in film & television projects. License existing material, customize or request a custom score, we love it all.

⏺︎ Select Clients  Google /  Netflix / Instagram / Apple / Facebook / Amazon / Warner Brothers / Paramount / Starbucks / NBC / The New York Times / Disney / Snapchat / Volkswagon / Gucci / Samsung / Volvo / Electric Ireland …

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 be it ambient, solo piano, or shoegaze.

Helios | Embrace | Dir: Sean Pecknold

Goldmund | Migration | Dir: Gordon McBryde

Mint Julep | To The Sea | Dir: A Nice Idea Everyday

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

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