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Subtle ambience, found sounds, and treated acoustic elements escalate and wash over the listener creating a harmonically dense, and melodically rich environment.
Genre:
Electronic: Down Tempo
Release Date:
2004
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Unomia
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Record Label: Merck Records
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This is Keith Kennif aka Helios's first album and release for Merck. With previous compilation and remix appearances, including a track on the Neo-Ouija Cottage Industries 3 CD. For this release he places the listener into a lush atmosphere sprinkled with piano, guitar, and a variety of downtempo experimental breakbeats. Subtle ambience, found sounds, and treated acoustic elements escalate and wash over the listener creating a harmonically dense, and melodically rich environment. Complimented by a remix from Philadelphia's Loess as well. Overall clocking in with 14 tracks and a little under 60 minutes long, another CD player fixture from the Merck camp.
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Incredible
author: RMC
This cd is amazing. This music is simply and powerful. It\'s quite melancholy, and the songs will stick with you for a long time. Lighthouse for example is gut-wrenchingly heartbreaking. It reminds me a lot of Frederick Chopin. This is a must have for ambient music lovers. Get this cd crack open a bottle of wine and turn the lights off
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The best ambient cd of the last 10 years
author: Jeremy
If you are even *thinking* about buying this cd, do not hesitate and buy it immediately. Keith Kenniff is a master at blending ambient soundscapes with his signature piano sound, field recordings and wonderful beat-oriented progressions. An absolute "must-buy" and not to be missed.
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Connects trip-hop fun with ambient sound design
author: Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END
The opening track on the album Unomia (57'00") by Helios (aka Keith Kennif) does something other pieces of modern electronic music can only aspire to do . . . It stays with you . . . Lilting minor key bell-tones echo, build and shift alongside resolute rhythms. But the memorable quality of this song rises from the sentimentality experienced through its hopeful mellow melody; a simple and warm synth line which lingers just long enough to stir the memory. Only the ambition of ideas can limit this music, and on Unomia, his debut album, Helios easily reaches his aesthetic aspirations. The mood and energy of this album wanders up and down, over and under, in a confluence of various streams. The 13 tracks crossfade smoothly one into the other - each an engaging interlude of stratified sound. The truly ambient, environmental moments are cerebral yet comforting. The motion of these impressionistic aural panoramas are contrasted by the edges and grainy definition of this album's rasping rhythms which profoundly tick and shuffle amidst the details of the listener's waking mind. Great stories have a way of re-telling themselves, and with Unomia, Helios has come up with an exceptional, irresistible work which successfully connects prevailing trip-hop fun with the depth and space of ambient sound design.
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A masterpiece
author: Hisham
Discovered this gem at CD baby, listened to the audio samples and immediately purchased it online. This is an electroacoustic journey into hypnotic beats, dark lush drone and glistening piano. To sum it up, its simply beautiful!
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