Aude Van Wyller & Lucy Van - MATERIAL
Permanent Draft, 2026
Disorientingly transitive example of sound poem experimentation from Oi Les Ox’s Aude Van Wyller and Lucy Van, a former associate of Laila Sakini on that similarly great Figures LP from nearly 10 (!) years ago. MATERIAL presents as a true product of collaboration, Van Wyller’s fragmented production, built from fractured loops and palimpsestic field recordings, the ideal frame for Van’s text, which seems to explore interconnected thoughts around urban space, dissolving time and the human subject amidst it. Such pursuits can frequently translate as overly academic, solipsistic or abstruse to the point of incomprehension, but that’s far from the case here, with something mysteriously inviting about their pairing, a confluence of unexpected melody and strange observation emergent from the intistial ooze that proves both alien and somehow warm. This is the music of the vibrating city and how we move alongside it. Highly recommended for anyone who’s found worth in M. Klein & Steffan de Turck’s A New City, The Dengie Hundred’s work with Gemma Blackshaw or Hiele Kinsella’sThird Summer of Love. Edition of 200 w/ beautiful embossed sleeve & 56 page photo book.
FFO: The Dengie Hundred, M. Klein & Steffan de Turck, Hiele Kinsella, Marianna Maruyama & Hessel Veldman // @permanent_draft
Hello my dears,
I hope this year will be kind to all of us.
Here’s a new release from us:
permanentdraft.bandcamp.com/album/material-3
MATERIAL, out on the 13th of February 2026
200 copies on black vinyl, with an accompanying 56-page booklet, printed on uncoated paper, paperback
Mixed by Aude Van Wyller
Mastered by Joe Talia
Artwork and photos by Christine
Designed by Kyla Arsadjaja
Distributed by state51
Enquiries: [email protected]
Aude Van Wyller (aka Oï les Ox aka AI les Axes) joins forces with acclaimed poet Lucy Van, author of The Open (2021) and Australian Women’s Historical Photography (2024). This debut collaboration weaves together Aude’s ambient mutations with Lucy’s killer words.
Part of the proceeds will go to ACT UP
Love and strength to you all.
xxx
Hello everyone,
A quick note to let you know that the archive for Fanny Chiarello’s BASTA NOW: women, trans & non-binary in experimental music has just been expanded.
This version is an expanded edition, with a list of 3867 names, extended lists and discographies, and updated chapters— a richer snapshot of the voices and histories that shaped BASTA NOW. It’s an ongoing living archive, and we’re happy to make this new chapter available to you.
You can explore it here:
https://grd.bg/bNW2A4
Ps— Sorry if the pic is out of focus, I posted it without glasses and I thought it was ok.
Thank you for your continued support of Permanent Draft and for keeping these conversations active and visible.
More incredible works by women will be published by the label in 2026.
♥️🙌🏻🌹
Karen Willems is a Belgian drummer percussionist active in various fields. Started as a drummer in rock and pop bands. With a number of musicians she built up a tradition within improvised music and sound art.
Since 2020, with ‘TERRE SOL’ Willems is searching for personal modifications within her play of instruments and objects, with the focus on solo work and compositions.
“When I make music, there’s no plan. I draw my inspiration from everyday life. Small encounters, people, and the greatest source, of course, is nature.
There we find all the beauty, all the sounds we need.
With my solo work I try to stay far away from my familiar drum set. Only then I can create a special universe. Eccentricity and playfulness go hand in hand with exercises in tension and release, and calls for connection in antisocial times. It’s difficult in this world obsessed with productivity and results, and you really have to be crazy to release music these days. So ‘A Fool’s Guide to Reality’ is a fitting title.” Karen Willems
A Fool’s Guide to Reality, LP, release 3th October 2025 400 copies on black vinyl with b/w reverse board cover.
Mixed by Karen Willems
Mastered by Queer Ear Mastering
Graphic design by Louise Mason
Distributed by state51
Permanent Draft 2025 - LINK IN BIO @karenwillems_@fanny_chiarello@queerearmastering@state51@louiseamazing
Basta Now. Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music @basta_now
A non-academic essay by French poet, novelist & music enthusiast Fanny Chiarello @fanny_chiarello and the very first book published by Permanent Draft @permanent_draft , an all-female micro-press & label founded by Chiarello and musician Valentina Magaletti @valentina_magaletti . Basta Now is a playful yet powerful overview of 2,371 women, non-binary & trans artists from the global experimental sound & music scene. Filled with photos, illustrations & discographies, it’s both a resource and a manifesto.
“This book has nothing against men, it’s just not about them.” — Fanny Chiarello
Available in-store and online at pagefive.com
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Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello - Gym Douce
Permanent Draft, 2025
A seemingly spontaneous new EP from Permanent Draft that brings together label founders Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello in a dream-like collage of fragmented polyglot sound. Across seven miniatures, the pair traverse some ground, uniting abstracted spoken word, submerged field recordings, alien electronics, minimal piano and Magaletti’s signature polyrhythms. The short run time betrays the range of ideas on show, and you could easily make the case for any one of these tracks to be doubled in length, such is the restless, explorative spirit that underpins the entire affair. Let’s call it maximalism in miniature, a brain dump of ideas barely around long enough to fully process, where somewhat ironically it’s the choices they didn’t make that leave you wondering. In the age of excess, there’s something to be said for the short form impulse. Still, knowing the history of its creators, it’s hard to imagine them stopping here. Watch this space... Low edition of 200.
FFO: V/Z, Klara Lewis, Cucina Povera, Lucrecia Dalt // @permanent_draft@valentina_magaletti
Out today🎉
On Gym Douce EP, Permanent Draft label founders Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello (author of Basta Now, Women, Trans & Non-Binary in Experimental Music) illustrate their aesthetic line by offering sound collages, bitter laughs, and deranged miniatures based on poetry and percussion recorded in a punk burst, along with field recordings and other oddities.
“I look at my phone I look at myself on my phone I look at people looking at me on my phone I look at myself through other people's eyes I look at people's eyes on my phone I look for myself in their eyes do I shine? how bright do I shine?”
200 copies on black vinyl with b/w reverse board cover. Sleeves screen-printed in the state51 Atelier. Includes Risograph pamphlet insert
‘Gym Douce’ EP (Permanent Draft, Draft6, release 13 April 2025)
Music by Valentina Magaletti. Words by Fanny Chiarello
Recorded at Studio Ovo by Susumu Mukai
Mastered at Zona By Marta Salogni
Cover art by Valentina Magaletti. Graphic design by Louise Mason
Distributed by state51, UK Wholesale £15 Enquiries: [email protected]@valentina_magaletti@permanent_draft
thank you @zongamin_uk@martasalogni@louiseamazing@williamaverage@state51
Marie De la Nuit - Transportées
Permanent Draft, 2025
Highly disorientating but utterly engaging sound design verite from Marie Guérin under her assumed de la Nuit sobrioquet, which maps her fitful passage through Brittany, Germany and Tunisia. Local voices cut in an out, sometimes in indigenous song, sometimes abstracted beyond comprehension, intersecting with the manipulation of an array of field recordings that are often trance-like in their arrangement. Guérin in part describes her practice as ‘documentary’, and there is certainly a sense of something of the wider world being recorded here, of its ebbs and flows, of its langauge and expression, and, ultimately, whether observed or otherwise, its persistent fecundity. Might we call this Abstract Ethnography? It does seem to aptly capture Guérin’s intentions quite well, to map, reflect and celebrate polyglot oral traditions and the distinct sound worlds they create. Struggling to think of another record it closely resemebles, which likely tells us that Transportées works best through telling its own specific story of the worlds it’s encountered.
FFO: Henning Christiansen, Simon Fisher Turner, Malvern Brume, Mark Templeton, UEVPD // @permanent_draft
LIN IN BIO♥️Marie Guérin (aka Marie de la Nuit) is a sound artist. Since 2001, she has been manipulating field recordings, radio archives, traces left on the airwaves by « hertzian ghosts ».
« . A mixture of voices,
textures, grains, anecdotal sounds, her work questions the sound heritage, its supports and the traces left on these supports; her music passes from radiophonic grammar to music. — « Transportées is an electroacoustic work. From archaic to electronic trance, a musical thread runs from Brittany to Tunisia.
We follow a trance-like path through recordings, traces of oral traditions. At the root of this composition is my taste for archives and my fascination with songs that have been captured, recorded and fixed. With my microphones, I follow a documentary and musical path that, between Brittany, Germany and Tunisia, crosses the first sound recordings fixed on flat discs, oral transmission, the energy of the return to the homeland and a K7. On this K/, a mother passes on an endangered repertoire to her son, who records it.
Transportées starts with this K7. » Marie Guérin 300 copies on black vinyl with b/w reverse board cover.
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