‘Cities of Skin’ EP out now
‘Nightmarishly beautiful’ - Right Chord Music
‘Hauntingly cool and synthy’ - Happy Mag
‘The minute we heard Katia’s voice we fell in love with it and couldn’t get it out of our heads’ - Bored City
‘Cities of Skin is one of the best records I’ve heard all year, and I try not to say things like that lightly. Innovative yet accessible, it coalesces around a coherent theme, brings plenty of emotion and, most of all, is a joy to listen to’ - York Calling
Past projects-KA-TYA
About
Ukrainian-born Australian singer-songwriter ‘Pshonka’ (Katia Pshenichner) writes folkloric dark pop. This pop is serious, and it’s Soviet. Pshonka, on the other hand, is a gluten-free superfood – a tiny, spherical grain Slavs slip into savoury side-dishes. It’s also what Katia’s mamochka called her when she was a tiny spherical grain herself, growing up in Ukraine. Soon after arriving in Australia Katia discovered Crunchy Nut and never ate millet again. The end.
Except to say Pshonka writes haunting synthy and cinematic ballads and joyful and irreverent pop. Her vocals are crystal at the top and metallic at the bottom, her styling is influenced by Russian folk and musical theatre and recalls artists such as Aguzarova and Kate Bush. She writes in both English and Russian.
“An indie pop masterpiece” (Tone Deaf)
“Balances gracefully between heartbreak and hope” (Happy Mag)
Press
'Top gig with one of our latest discoveries'
pshonkamusic@gmail.com
Pshonka (Катерина Пшеничнер), автор и исполнительница инди-поп песен, в своем творчестве бросает вызов жестким рамкам одного жанра. Она легко перескакивает с “синтипопных” баллад с запоминающимися мелодиями на дерзкий арт-поп, где вдруг звучат народные русские мотивы.
Помимо несомненного музыкального профессионализма, который ей дала русская классическая фортепианная школа, она воспитывалась и развивалась, как музыкант в Австралии. Отсюда смешение жанров и стилей, намеренная театрализация вокала и эксцентричная манера исполнения.