Basta Now

Basta Now

Permanent Draft is a queer record label and micro-press founded by musician Valentina Magaletti and writer Fanny Chiarello that aims for giving an exposure to contemporary female/non-binary/transgender artists. Permanent Draft aims to highlight works showing a certain taste for fragmentary, irrepressible creative eruption and lo-fi experiments.

In 2023 Permanent Draft put out their first release EP64/63 by Ondata Rossa (Dali De Saint Paul, Valentina Magaletti, Yoshino Shigihara (Yama Warashi), Agathe Max and Laura Phillips). Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music by Fanny Chiarello is the first book publication on the label, and a further statement in support of the underrepresented female sonic artists.

The book is a non academic essay, unraveling in the end a list of more than 2250 names of female, trans and non-binary artists. The form is playful and is laid out in a careful design with illustrations, photographs and lists. Fanny Chiarello is a French award-winning writer of novels, poetry and children's literature, edited by numerous renowned publishers.