Hildegard has shared the video for ‘Jour 8’ – watch below, their self-titled debut album is out now via Section1.
Hildegard – electronic duo featuring experimental singer-songwriter Helena Deland and multi-instrumentalist/producer Ouri (Ourielle Auvé) – have shared a new music video for their song ‘Jour 8,’ the atmospheric highlight from their self-titled debut album (out now via section1). Hildegard describe the song as “expressing the lasting outrage and trying lassitude that comes with being harassed,” adding “the video shows us reuniting in clarity after fleeing claustrophobic settings and an ominous Hummer.”
Hildegard have also been confirmed for a 4th February headline performance at SAT in Montreal, as part of the electronic music festival MUTEK. Tickets on sale now (HERE).
Hildegard was released to critical acclaim this summer as the first album from newly launched label, section1. Deland and Ouri recorded over just eight days in the studio, uncovering their innate creative connection while developing an intuitive approach to composition and sound. The eight tracks on Hildegard fuse together into a sonic sphere, and are named for each day Deland and Ouri spent together. Deland’s folk background balances against Ouri’s nocturnal world of electronic and dance music. Weightless vocals and aphoristic lyrics hover over kinetic beats and throbbing bass. The meeting place sounds something like dusk, or dawn.
Throughout the album, Deland and Ouri drew inspiration from mystic, healer, composer, and visionary 12thcentury nun, Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard was a woman of science, music, and spirituality, as well as a symbol of nurturing strength. In her 12th century presence, she wrote prophecies, poems, and treatises; she experienced otherworldly visions and recorded them, passing them down through generations. 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.
Ouri also released her own solo album last month, entitled Frame of a Fauna.
