'Overwhelmingly affecting - and deeply singular' — Boomkat
​'A call to wakefulness' — The Quietus
'A chilling meditation on wartime trauma and the endurance of faith.' — Pitchfork
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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.
