New Arrivals
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. This is The Sky Above The Bud Below."Marhaug has an impressive range at his fingertips, veering wildly from shock-tactic maximal noise, to near-silent contemplative drones. Much of the time loud and noisy, but also playful and even quiet, wintry and re…
Dora Bengala
Doro Bengala propose a fireworks display, we use explosions as sounds and sounds as explosions of colours.We practise the art of sense stimulation through the use of coloured flames, of shrieks and low frequencies. Our group carry out a practice from Bengal founded by Mrs. Subhash Chandra Doro in the late 1895.
Soft Power Memento
Embody Problematic Behavior. These are the three words that Co La uses to describe “Soft Power Memento,” his follow-up EP to 2011′s “Daydream Repeater” debut LP on NNA. Something to mull over while immersing yourself in Co La’s vivid and constantly-evolving world of sound. The spectrum of source material is widened and focused, with an emphasis on acoustic instrumentation and jazz palettes, all diced up and run through the New Anything sound system. Concréte percussive molecules are tenderly arr…
Two ants were called
Two 10-minute minimal and dark pieces, exploring stasis and low-end dephts from Greek composer Spyros Polychronopoulos aka Spyweirdos (b.1980). Professionally duplicated c-22. Letterpressed sleeve printed by Ben Owen / Middle Press. Numbered edition of 100 copies.
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 routes backward and forward, travels in the outer space and depicts a magic conception of distance between past, present and the next world." "Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix" is a C60 tape released by Palm Wine after a trip to Morocco attending a…
Collection 4
Limited 150 copies, Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded & Mixed at Gap Works, Tokyo on 16 June 1981. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from Original Master Tape on Jan 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982.
Aral Field Recordings
Aral field recordings is part of an ongoing research on radio frequencies in remote areas, this radio frequencies were captured in Moynak, a city once the biggest port in the Aral sea, today a desert, a ghost town inhabited by the remain opulation mostly old people that try to survive one of man made worst disasters. cassette 1 is a selection of this radio frequencies recorded and edited by carlos casas, the sounds were captured from a small radio receiver from FM-AM-SW_VLF …
Taking Away
here are two pieces from august 2008 ; built from “playthroughs” -style guitar / synthesizer / computer improvisations recorded april 2008 ; (time crawls when you live in a bubble) ...the “side 1” half is the tail-end of said improv, run through a low-pass filter taking its cut-off frequency from the relative “loudness” of the audio (i.e. the louder it gets, the more high-end it let through) - a nice & simple piece that turned out well (there’s even a bit of “dry” guitar playing at the end there…
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 might not. It's a special private place which cannot be shared or revealed. Her right hand slowly stroked the keys, as if to play; but there is no need for music now. She has her own sounds playing breezily around her; no need for form. Her fingers h…
& that dead horse
Recorded upstairs mostly 1994. Leslie Winer close friend of William Burroughs and Jean-Michel Basquiat did one album in 1991, 'Witch' earning her the title of Grandmother Of Trip-Hop. 'Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. Recorded upstairs mostly 1994.' label info
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 a completely unbiased review virtually impossible, so we ll try to stick to the facts and leave the hyperbole out, for the most part. That said, what we have here is a tape of 10 Chrome, Les Rallizes Denudes, DAF, and Hawkwind influenced jams (we re …
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 guitar through various effects boxes. Philip jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves …
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/improvised Noise duo made up of artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX. After recording together at a session for Pestrepeller (the other band they are a part of) it was decided to take the project one step further an…
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 of Arts. In the early eighties Wilson went to Southeast Asia studying Javanese mysticism, Kebatinan. He published numerous books on topics as pirate utopia’s, Irish soma and Islamic heresy and his philosophy is influenced by anarchism, situationism, …
weekend
On this cassette are two days of ambient sound recordings, each originally about twenty-four hours long and sped up to play back at about 128 times the original speed. The recordings were made in my studio, which is located in West Baltimore City. I was interested in hearing what was too low and slow for me to normally hear, or to imagine how I would hear things if I were an insect. Since sound can give an indication of length (sound travels approximately 1 foot per millisecond), my h…
Verstreutes 2
Second revised and expanded edition of our book about the work of Asmus Tietchens. The book is in GERMAN. It includes essays about Tietchens, a fully commentated discography up to December 2005, short prose by Tietchens and a 70 minute CD collecting compilation tracks from CD and tape compilations from 1984-1995, plus one unreleased track.
Nascosto Tra Le Rune
Tsunami Edizioni is glad to announce the release of "Nascosto Tra Le Rune" (Hidden Among The Runes), the official biography of the controversial and legendary British group DEATH IN JUNE.The book has been written by long time music journalist and DIJ fan Aldo Chimenti with the help of Douglas P., and is a huge 420-pages-long effort which offers an in-depth analysis of themes, connections, historical and personal events related to the story and opus of DEATH IN JUNE (with three whole chapters dev…
He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes
A singer sits at the piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete control of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes doesn't come close to the stature of those icons, she set the mold for rockin' singer/ pianists in 1926 with six 'test records' that have stood the test of time. Until now, very little has been correctly reported about Dranes other than the facts that she was blind, from Texas, had a piercing Pentecostal voice …
The Source The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWha 13
280 pages, over 200 original period photographs+CD included: Founded in 1973 in the Los Angeles area, Ya Ho Wha 13, otherwise known Yahowha 13 is a psychedelic rock band fronted by Father Yod, spiritual leader of a religious cult/commune called the Source Family. Ya Ho Wha without the vowels and spaces reduces to YHWH, the tetragrammaton. The band recorded nine LPs full of their extreme psychedelic sound with tribal drums and distorted guitars, some of which were completely unrehearsed jam sessi…
Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear Vol. 2
Since the publication of the first volume of Site of Sound in 1999 the issues and activities pertaining to sound and architecture have expanded to circulate more dynamically within the fields of sound art, sound design, and spatial practices. From acoustical technologies and urban planning to public art, concerns for auditory structures and the experiences of listening are finding deeper footing within both artistic and environmental contexts. Recent noise mappings across Europe, along with new …