heinali: iridescent

Heinali is the alias of self-taught composer and sound-designer Oleg Shpudeiko from Ukraine. Having garnered rapturous responses to his earlier output and 2017's Anthem, Oleg continues to push the boundaries and experiment with altering mood and atmospheres of any space with abstract, yet deeply personal transmissions of ambient synthesizer work and subaqueous, minimal techno contortions. Iridescent consists of fragments of studio improvisation sessions recorded in 2016 and 2017, some of them recorded in one unedited take on a modular system and some layered and later morphed into compositions. Iridescent bares Oleg's style of sonic storytelling and austere, otherworldly textural embellishments that bring to mind Ben Frost, Akira Yamaoka, and Oneohtrix Point Never but also plants the seed for much more club-ready electro. "Starling Reprise I" is a scorching piece of ambient techno that conjures Four Tet, LTO, and Susumu Yokota's blissful, kaleidoscopic synth work whilst "Starling Reprise II" retains the frosty, steely ambience that has become Heinali's calling card.