New Arrivals
La Catacomb
La Catacomb, purloined from a great abyss of uncertainty, is finally among us. The fourth album proper from Steven R. Smith’s blisteringly psychedelic “power trio” guise, La Catacomb languished for a few years awaiting release from this label & t…
The Sky Above The Bud Below
Noisy but not even brutal. Digital enough to preserve the organic and crispy taste of the sound. These are two new stunning recordings from one of the most active and finest artist in the field of noise and improvised music. This is Lasse Marhaug. Th…
Glossy black fruits
A powerful exemplar of long time electro-acoustic artist, Christian Renou. Glossy Black Fruits was composed in two parts and features contributions from G. Guiggia & Mamma Baer + KHJ.
Live At F.W.
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. A: Part One. B: Part Two. Cover features an illustration by SaxX, after Martin Sharp. Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet? The Tapeworm stumbled upon the lost psych rock recording, 'Live at F.W.' …
Alku Tape
... probably don’t need to explain this one in too much detail ; it’s a kevin drumm tape (of scattered, alternatingly minimal & harsh guitar pieces recalling his earliest recorded/released work) ; the second “pressing” after the first (of something l…
De Leeuwerik 1979
1979 performance of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Steven Taylor and Harry Hoogstraten recorded live at De Leeuwerik, a small bar in Eindhoven (Holland). Everyone takes turn reading poems and singing songs accompanied by harmonium, percussion and…
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a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an un…
Montoyan Artesian Connection
New Tape - Montoyan Artesian Connection - Montoyan Artesian Connection - This is a tough one to write-up. Montoyan Artesian Connection is the solo 4-track home recording project of one of the key update writers here at Permanent, which makes writing …
Szampler
Limited to just 500 copies and already sold out at source, this latest edition from the Tapeworm cassette label is likely to be the most feverishly sought after to date. One of experimental electronic music's biggest names, Christian Fennesz has coll…
Sinus
A simple synthetic-based, sine wave-generating freeware program was used as a sound source for creating single pulses and long static tones in several different tonal pitches. No additional sound design or other analog or digital processing was us…
Hiss Vol.1
The works included in 'hiSS [Synesthesia Sampler] vol.1' have been produced using only analogue devices and processing tools - such as no input mixers, analogue synthesizers and custom-built or hacked/reconfigured instruments. Without the use of c…
Ec(o)logues
During the seventies writer/poet/essayist Peter Lamborn Wilson traveled extensively in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. He spent several years in Iran where he translated Persian Sufi poetry and worked for the Shiraz Festival …
Fart Synthesis
'Fart Synthesis' is the 8th episode in EVOL's ongoing Punani series, and was edited from live recordings in Osaka, Kiev and Toulouse between 2008 and 2009. All sounds were synthesized on the fly on various computers. The final tracks were assembled i…
Music for Sounding Sculptures
Twenty-three wonderful pieces recorded live in a tower in Tuscany, in which master percussionist Marcello Magliocchi plays sound sculptures byAndrea Dami, made of various metals including iron, brass, copper, steel, aluminium and featuring other elem…
The noisiest guys on the planet
“The Noisiest Guys on the Planet” were recorded by Jana Winderen, who also provided the illustration. Thanks to: Institute of Marine Research and the crew on Johan Hjort. The decapods or Decapoda (literally means “ten footed”) are an order of crus…
First and second rites
Cassette only, 250 copies. SavX (Savage Pencil) - electric rooster guitar. Sharon Gal - electric bass guitar, voice, percussion, feedback. Recorded at the SavLab 17/6/2009. Illustration SavX. Thanks to Mario and Luca Cavalli. Meltaot are a bass heavy…
v-p v-f is v-n
jjason kahn, civyiu kkliu, richard garet, scott smallwood, alfredo costa monteiro, daniel blinkhorn, stefan thut, ben owen, toy.bizarre, gen ken montgomery, robert curgenven, manfred werder / incidental music, pierre gerard, giuseppe ielasi, ferr…
Infernal Furniture
Infernal Furniture is a collection of piano sonatas, backed with a version -- "Infernal Dub Furniture" -- where the recordings are subjected to the studio effects of delay and reverb, changing the surface and meaning of the music. The piano pieces…
15 CDs
restocked: Analogue synth and field recordings, re-played through CDJs. Starting out as an improvising guitarist in the late 1980s, Giuseppe Ielasi's current work is mainly studio-based compositions utilising records and CDs, and creating pieces f…