The Tapeworm

20/09/2024

WHO is “A String Stretched Between Stars And We Pluck It” by Simon Pomery.

https://the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/album/a-string-stretched-between-stars-and-we-pluck-it

Simon Pomery is an Irish sonic artist based in London. Since 2013, as Blood Music, he has released on Diagonal, FLUF, The Tapeworm and The Wormhole.

This track is edited from Pomery’s forthcoming album on The Wormhole. The album, titled “Skin String Sine”, is made of “figures”, a word Pomery uses to describe the repetition and variation of musical parts, melodies heard in dreams or in waking life and the body’s manifestation of each. Musical figures and the figure of the body/of bodies. It signals Pomery’s evolution from Blood Music to “heart music” – music which explores the effects of harmonics on the listener.

Mastered by Russell Haswell – “Simon is the most acid Acidman of all of us. He’s made of acid.”

20/09/2024

TTW #170 is “Absência Tape” by Carla Boregas.

https://the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/album/abs-ncia-tape

Available to preorder now – shipping around 4 October.

Carla Boregas writes: “Using a Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder, I invited three musicians to improvise alone with the sound recording of the sea that I did in Massaguaçu, the place where I used to live in Brasil. The recorder that I used had a defect in one of its tracks, therefore I could only invite two musicians – Vinicius Cajado (double bass) and Réka Csiszér (cello), plus the sea in another track. While listening to the tracks together, I felt a deep sense of absence (“ausência” in Portuguese). Perhaps due to their sonorous answers surrounded by the tape hiss? Because that's one of the symbolic meanings of the ocean? Maybe “saudades do mar, de estar ao seu outro lado”? Who knows – listening can be something very mysterious. Afterwards I played with and interweaved them all: the sonorous sea, Vinicius Cajado, Réka Csiszér and the absence - “Absência Tape” is the final result.” – Carla Boregas, Berlin, 8 August 2024.

20/09/2024

TTW #169 is “Memorex” by Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler.

https://the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/album/memorex

Available to preorder now –shipping around 4 October.

The London-based electronic musician Luke J Murray aka Stonecirclesampler and the award-winning writer Travis Elborough have combined forces on a new collaboration…

15/09/2024

On Friday 27 September 2024 The Tapeworm celebrates its fifteenth birthday with ‘TDK’, Tapeworm’s Dalston Knees-up, at Café OTO

TICKETS – now on sale: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/tdk-tapeworms-dalston-knees-up/

IN PERFORMANCE — Straight outta Neukölln, Marta De Pascalis will be sculpting her unique soundscapes; Jay Glass Dubs flies in from Athens to play ‘Respooled’, his tribute to Philip Jeck; Simon Pomery making the London debut of his forthcoming album for The Wormhole, ‘Skin String Sine’; Dale Cornish playing the sounds of young Croydon; The Howling providing ‘the missing link between John Cage and Suicide’; and Streatham’s finest, Tears | Ov, with a preview of their next release.

TDK illustration by the great SavX.

17/06/2024

It’s really sad to hear of Graham Dowdall's passing; such a generous, sweet soul. Apart from releasing a cassette on The Tapeworm label in 2014, I used to bump into him in Sainsbury's in Balham where we’d shoot the breeze as the shoppers whirled around us. He was always so engaging and curious about what we were up to. Such a history, what a guy. We’ll miss you. [Mike Harding, Touch]

14/06/2024

Savage Pencil, MICROCORPS and The Tapeworm have teamed up with 1 of 100 to create a special edition T-shirt of the SavX artwork. Available in either black or white on 155g 100% climate neutral organic cotton, the tee is on pre-sale now.

Searching for a Savage Pencil t-shirt? Renowned artist Savage Pencil has been warping the eyes and minds of fans of independent comics, record sleeves, posters and T-shirts since the ‘70s. Working with formidable experimental bands and musicians such as Big Black, Sonic Youth, Swans, Earth, Sunn O...

14/06/2024

Announcing three new additions to The Digital Archive of Tapeworm, a repository for audio from out of print cassettes on The Tapeworm. These releases are Bandcamp exclusives.

https://datworm.bandcamp.com

Jay Glass Dubs’ first two tapes for The Tapeworm are now available digitally for the first time. 2017’s “Dislocated Folklore” consists of two 30 minute long tracks that incorporate mainly stretched-out 0’03” sample recordings of 90s Ragga 12” single intros combined with and recordings of a Quran recitation from a Turkish TV channel. “Two Devotional Songs For Spacemen 3 In The Style Of Love Inc.”, first released in 2019, was created for The Tapeworm’s 10th anniversary show.

Due to popular demand, MICROCORPS’ recent tape, “Macrocorpse – 2021-2024”, is also now available digitally.

23/04/2024

Hello You. There’s intrigue and mystery aplenty at Fog Towers this week, starting with the latest episode of Resonance FM’s FogCast, which opens with ‘Reflections’, the firs…

11/04/2024

RELEASE THE WORMS!

Two new tapes are available to preorder now – shipping around 10 May

https://the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/

TTW #167 is “Inside Out of Chaos” by Runar Magnusson, an Icelandic/Danish sound artist and musician, currently based in Austria. With a masters degree in Electronic Music Composition from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark, he is inspired by the sounds of nature, noise, and meditation. Magnusson specialises in atmospheric disturbances through minimalist compositions. A sly humour cuts through the dark hues of his works.

TTW #168 is “Macrocorpse – 2021-2024” by MICROCORPS, Alexander Tucker’s mutant techno alter ego, presents “Macrocorpse – 2021-2024”, a collection of eight tracks that stray into a mutated space where techno-based composition inhabits the same zone as microsound time scales, drone and noise.

05/04/2024

Just when you thought it was safe to back into the Spook House for the Late-Night Monster Show, The Howling return with their latest single. This digital release offers radical new takes on two tracks taken from their recent Wormhole album ‘Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway’.

https://the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/album/the-skydivers

Track A is a video version of ‘The Skydivers’, The Howling’s deadpan exposition on a spectacularly lacklustre movie melodrama, backed by the throbbing of a customised street rod engine. Combining the original studio version of the track with visuals specially prepared with the expert assistance of Executive Producer Lori E. Allen, ‘The Skydivers’ offers all the highs and lows of this moody soap opera in which people either fall in love or throw themselves out of planes.

Track B is a pounding live version of another track taken from The Howling’s ‘Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway’ release. ‘The Picture of A Picture of Dorian Gray’ pays tribute to a 1970s Italian soft-core p**n adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel. Using keywords scraped from the IMDB entry for the movie, The Howling reconstructs Wilde’s narrative as a fragmented sequence of plot points, themes and images. This recording was made in the teeth of severe technical problems at the Horse Hospital in London on 3 November 2023 and turned out to be greatly enhanced by them. This live version also includes a spoken-word introduction not featured on the album.

14/03/2024

First broadcast by Dublab on 12 March, and now archived – a Long Wave special, heralding The Tapeworm’s 15th anniversary. Your host, Nigel Wrench, is sent a postcard from Athens, Greece.

https://www.dublab.com/archive/nigel-wrench-guest-hosting-long-wave-the-tapeworms-15th-anniversary-03-12-24

On the 1st and 2nd of March The Tapeworm presented “The Worm Rose of Athens” – two evenings of entertainments featuring Marta De Pascalis, Jay Glass Dubs, Simon Pomery, Kostis Kilymis, venoztks and Philip Marshall.

With thanks to Viktor and Evegny @ Stellage, Dimitri Alexakis, Foteini Banou and Aggeliki Karambela @ KET and Dimitris Papadatos.

Also featured: tracks from recent and upcoming tapes by Dj Salinger, MICROCORPS and Runar Magnusson.

“The Worm Rose of Athens” illustrated by SavX.