“This is huge and absolutely glorious. The spirit of a Zappa big band, but with Ukrainian traditional music in Ireland. [Haivka]..is more than my thesaurus can come up with enough words to describe. It’s wild, it’s big, it’s constantly changing…passion, loss and agony, intense, massively vivid, moving wonderfulness.”

Andrew Cronshaw on Yurodny Ensemble - Haivka 
for fRoots Magazine Issue 397 June 14th 2016

Music, as a river sea-bound or the gathering storm, inhabits a world without borders. 

This album is dedicated to all those who pray for rain.

– 

Yurodny 

Oleg Ponomarev - violin 
Adrian Hart - violin, electronics 
Cora Venus Lunny - violin, viola 
Kate Ellis - cello 
Nick Roth - soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, electronics 
Colm O’Hara - trombone 
Francesco Turrisi - piano, accordion, keyboards, percussion 
Dave Redmond - double bass 
Phil Macmullan - drums 

Special guests 

Iryna Klymenko - voice 
Susanna Karpenko - voice 
Olesya Zdorovetska - voice 
Alla Zagaykevych - electronics 

Dan Trueman - electronics 
Emma O’Halloran - electronics 
David Collier - electronics 
Rachel Ní Chuinn - electronics 
Alex Dowling - electronicstags