Hildegard feat. Helena Deland & Ouri Hildegard

Hildegard is the new project from experimental singer-songwriter Helena Deland and multi-instrumentalist and producer Ouri (Ourielle Auvé). On their self-titled debut album, Deland’s folk background balances against Ouri’s world of electronic and dance music. Over eight days in a studio, the Montreal-based musicians discovered an innate creative connection, building and bouncing ideas off of one another, developing an intuitive approach to composition and sound.

The resulting record, ‘Hildegard’, is wholly its own. Eight tracks fuse together into a sonic sphere, named for the eight days spent together. Deland and Ouri invoke Hildegard as a carrier of the magic they felt working with each other, the separate entity that was born as they blended together. Artist Melissa Matos developed a visual language for the project that reflects this melding and switching of identities, imagining Hildegard as both a contemporary and historic presence.

‘Hildegard’ is released on section1, the new label started earlier this year in partnership with Partisan Records.

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