Javier Areal Vélez (Buenos Aires, 1985) is an experimental musician, sound artist and cultural manager. His recent solo work explores live electronic music through layered (poly)rhythmic systems and human–machine collaboration using samples, synthesis, lights and mechanical devices. He is also known for his experimental approach to prepared electric guitar. He has performed extensively across Latin America, Europe, North America and Japan, and  has collaborated with artists such as Violeta García, YOTO, Genosidra, Jorge Espinal,  Shayna Dunkelman, Chris Pitsiokos and Heiner Goebbels. Javier is the founder of the RUIDO experimental music series and he coordinated the Sound Arts Center (CASo)  between 2021 and 2024.

Female rulers of Sun Ra’s Saturn colony? Rebel refugees from the eighties synth-pop? Goddesses gibberish trash talk? Hyperactive tone geologists that will blow your head while drilling into the core of this planet? Witty feminist criticism of masculine-muscular free jazz?

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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.

The three members all feed on a background in jazz, however freely improvising that into different levels of abstractions. Interpreted by 3 individually strong voices they bring in components from very different musical territories and morph it into a mutual language.

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.

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

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MARIA FAUST - Estonian composer and saxophonist, best known for her own large groups Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe, Maria Faust Sacrum Facere, and several smaller improvisation-based ensembles. She is the recipient of multiple awards and grants, including Danish Music Awards, NILS Prisen, Estonian Jazz Award, and many others.

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KATRINE AMSLER - Danish composer, musician, instrument builder and sound-artist contributing to different types of audio-visual projects. Latest as a sound artist working for game-composer Martin Stig Andersen (Limbo, Inside) on the highly acclaimed 'Control' by Remedy Entertainment and Turtle Rock Studios' 'Back 4 Blood'. In 2021 Amsler won the British 'Sound of the Year Award' presented by The Museum Of Sound and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the category 'Best Artificial Sound'.

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QARIN WIKSTRÖM - Swedish composer and vocalist, best known for her band Kostcirkeln, and as a member of the collective ensembles Sekten and Babakarej. Wikström also works as a contemporary dance composer and performer, as a solo artist under the name Q, and in a number of smaller sized improvisation-based ensembles. She is the recipient of multiple Danish Music Awards, and a winner of Denmark’s National Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant

Multi instrumentalist and songwriter Per Lyhne Løkkegaard.

Spanning from avant-garde instrumental music to songwriter there is no doubt in mind that Per Løkkegaard is an artist who is not bound by trends and genres, but always in constant motion and in search of new inspirations.
Per Løkkegaard has released two albums – A Call For Silence (2010) and Farup Part II & I (2012) under the alias Petrus Kapell and is planning a new release in early spring 2015.

Albums are on iTunes, Wimp, Spotify and more.
Biography

Bass player/improvisor/composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
www.asgerthomsen.com

Tomasz Dąbrowski is an award-winning Polish trumpeter and composer. With eight albums released under his own name and dozens of CDs as a co-leader and sideman, he is considered one of the most gifted trumpeters and composers in Europe. Tomasz has mostly been known for his work with his groups FREE4ARTS, AD HOC, string of concerts S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday / 30 Concerts / 30 Cities and projects with Tomasz Stańko, Tyshawn Sorey, Riccardo Del Fra and Kris Davis. Tomasz is a member of a Danish musician-run collective and record label Barefoot Records.

In 2017 AllAboutJazz magazine, named Tomasz as one of the 15 most significant European jazz musicians today.

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