Description
2022, 12″ LP, Unseen Records.
If you’re not familiar with Helios by now clearly you need to pay more attention. Keith Kenniff has been recording quiet music from studios in Maine and Oregon under this moniker since 2004, and to date has put out dozens of releases that define the ambient genre, relying on a mini-cassette recorder as a basis for much of the work, preferring the imperfections of the sounds it captures rather the over-produced gloss that often defines electronica.
A graduate in percussion from Boston’s acclaimed Berklee College of Music, the first Helios release arrived when he was still studying, and was meant to be a simple outlet with which to experiment beyond institutional teachings. Almost two decades on and little has changed about that design – Caesura still feels like someone trying out new ideas and seeing what sticks, listener on the insider of an inner circle comprising just them and the producer. Nothing feels rushed, nothing feels pre-determined, despite the fact it has clearly been conceived through careful thought. – Juno
