New Arrivals
Henzai
Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi presents his fourth full-length and first LP release. Henzai is Higuchi at his most bare. Each song appears like a spectral poem -- sewn together with hushed electricity and whispers. This recording is whol…
Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cites
LP version. Sub Rosa presents this cult album that has not been available in years. Re-released with new artwork, this is the 1980 version of Symphonie Pour Le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités (the original version was released in 1976 and was later re…
The african twintowers suite
LP version, The African Twintowers Suite" represents a lost soundtrack; compiling the most interesting recordings, newly edited, layered, collaged, shortened and mixed between 2009 and 2010. Seminal German director Christoph Schlingensief (R.I.P. …
Summer Wanderer
“Summer Wanderer” is a sideslip in the discography of the Scottish avant folk musician Richard Youngs because it’s the only acappella release in his eminent and extensive list of recordings.“Summer Wanderer” was released for the first time in 2004 in…
Spool
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. The Tapeworm is really chuffed to have Philip jeck as its first release! Recorded in June 2009, at home in Liverpool. On 'spool', jeck eschews his usual prepared vinyl technique, instead playing bass gui…
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…
Le Xerox Et L\'Infini
Jean Baudrillard's "Le Xerox et l'Infini" – originally published in Paris, 1987 – as read by Patricia and Ellen. Recorded on 12 July 2009 by Vicki Bennett in Hersham, England. Translation: Agitac, London, November 1988. Jean Baudrillard is perhaps th…
K
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…
Ammo A Mass A Mat
She lay, naked, draped across the piano, her nipples still erect from her recent encounter. Globules dripped onto the keys, lying like translucent mercury pools, somewhere between solid and liquid, defying definition. She might be asleep; she migh…
Fundamental Structure
Deceh is an anonymous duo featuring the elusive Eleh. Their edition for the Tapeworm series is "a close study of the harmonic composition of a Hammond organ and a Sruti Box with attention given to the organization of isolated frequencies and the e…
Sound non sound 1
"Sound non sound" is a 15 minutes long session of samples, toy beats and synthetic waves that travels back in time to investigate some of the unexplainable mysteries of the recent Italian past, made of disappearing aeroplanes and exploding train stat…
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.' …
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…
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…
Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix
Palm Wine is a blog run by Simone Bertuzzi started at the end of 2009. It is described as "a possible and distant look at the post-global movement of sounds and imageries, even dazed by alcohol vapours. For this reason, it can take unexpected rou…
U
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…
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 …
Honey
Giannis Kotsonis has been performing under the ‘Sister Overdrive’ alias, keeping himself active with soundwork for theatre, dance, installation and cinema alongside his purely musical work. Initially working through his laptop, his practice has br…
Axioms
Tape loops, concrete parts, harsh noise .. if the elements of this release have been widely developed in a myriad of outputs, what makes this one unique is the way in which these elements are used to tell a story, the project of Francesco Tignola …
In Conversation, 1979-80
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. A: Part One. B: Part Two. Released with the kind permission of Keith Collins. Cover illustration Ð A Drawing for Tempest (1969) by Derek Jarman, courtesy of Richard Torry. Three interviews with Derek Jar…