Shitney
POST VOCAL
Ilk Music 2021

Shitney – aka Maria Faust (EST) on saxophone and effects; Qarin Wikström (SE) on vocals, keyboards, and electronics; and Katrine Amsler (DK) on a small army of homemade string and spring instruments, electronics, and programmed drums – was formed in 2015 to explore the confines and contrasts of the acoustic/electric sonic pallet.

Their first release, 2017’s EARTH CORE (ILK Music), was a series of experimental improvisations based on the titular subject matter: an imagined excavation of metals and chemicals, and an investigation of physical laws and paradoxes. The album received critical acclaim and a Danish Music Award nomination as Experimental Jazz Album of the Year.

On POST VOCAL - their new recording and second on ILK Music - the trio pivots to even darker, apocalyptic territory while fusing a bold and overtly feminist mentality with their ever-developing mindsets and musical voices. Together, the members of Shitney attack and examine the genre they have named “Post Vocal'' from a multitude of angles and offer a poignant critique of structural bias, masculinity, and misogyny... in the past, present, and assumed future of “modern” society.

Faust, Wikström, and Amsler once again marry the organic with the synthetic as they shed new light on ancient themes and resonate with unmistakable relevance in 2021.


SHITNEY
Katrine Amsler - Micro Guitar, Awillo Springs, Lyra Organismic Synthesizer, Drum Programming
Qarin Wikström - Vocals, Electronics, N/I
Maria Faust - Saxophone, Effects

ALBUM INFORMATION
ARTIST: Shitney
TITLE: Post Vocal
CATALOGUE NO.: ILK327DIG
LABEL: ILK
ORIGIN: Copenhagen, Denmark
RELEASE DATE: June 25th, 2021


TRACKS:
1. Ivan
2. Post Vocal
3. Do you like it
4. Wonderful
5. Hell Herring
6. Sword Dance
7. Epicæne
8. Dysprosody
9. Booby Marinada
10. Milk The Universe

All compositions by Faust/Amsler/Wikström, except track 8 by Amsler
Mix & mastering by August Wanngren

PREVIOUS RELEASE BY SHITNEY
Earth Core (ILK266CD)

PRESS/LABEL
kasper@ilkmusic.com / Phone +45 60 89 84 26

INFO/CONTACT
www.shitney.com
www.ilkmusic.com

DISTRIBUTION
Denmark : DC Norden · US: Stateside · Digital distribution through The Orchard · Rest of the world: www.ilkmusic.com

Special thanks to Külli Suitso and Ivan Steffensen !

With support from Koda’s Cultural Funds and Jazz Danmark