Vinyl, CD and digital edition available on Bandcamp.
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Number 13 on The Quietus Best Albums of 2025
Number 16 on Crack Magazine's Best Albums of 2025
Number 12 on Pitchfork's Best Electronic Albums of 2025
Bandcamp Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
Longlisted for the German Record Critics’ Award 2025 (PDSK - Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik)
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'Heinali and Saienko provoke us to linger at the intersection of the medieval and the modern, the elemental and the eternal; of the rural voice, the traumatic experience, and the mystical vision'
Maria Sonevytsky, Pitchfork 8/10
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'it feels like a gift to have this music out in the world, available to all and sundry, a small packet of rapture, or spiritual ruin, for whomever might need it at any given time'
Philip Sherbune, Futurism Restated
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'Гільдеґарда is not soothing, and its purpose is not contemplation. It is a call to wakefulness. It reminds us that music is not locked away in a museum but is accessible... Spiritual experience and tension expand this reception at the junction of programmed electronics and spontaneous singing'
Jakub Knera, The Quietus
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'The synthesizers aren’t just a modern gimmick, but precisely selected instruments that fit perfectly with the meditative drones and medieval polyphony of early music... the songs absorb the reverberations and resonances of the deep past, and fuse it with the uncertainty and horror of the technological present'
Geeta Dayal, 4 Columns - Albums of the Summer
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'Adapting two compositions by Benedictine mystic Hildegard von Bingen, modular synthesist Heinali and vocalist Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko bring ancient wisdom into the present, using Ukrainian folk techniques and synthesized medieval polyphony to reflect the past and transcend the trauma of war. Overwhelmingly affecting - and deeply singular - music'
Boomkat​​
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Гільдеґарда LP (‘Hildegard’ in Ukrainian) is a reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen's music. It combines the vocal sound production approaches of authentic Ukrainian folk singing with modular synthesis techniques drawn from high medieval polyphony and monophony. This approach, brought to life by Oleh Shpudeiko, known as Heinali, an electronic music composer whose work extends Western medieval music traditions through modular synthesis, and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, a singer practising authentic Ukrainian vocal tradition, highlights the physicality inherent in Hildegard's visionary music, serving as a distant mirror to reflect, comprehend, externalise, and transcend wartime experiences.
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