PORT NOO „Standing On The Moon“ Releaseshow + Hanna Fearns

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Port Noo "Standing On The Moon" release show
(Album release date: 5.6.2026)

+ Hanna Fearns

Girl on the moon

In the fall of 2024, the longing was finally too great for Hannah Permanetter. The longing to finally make music again after spending the last seven years looking after her children and setting up a cultural café in Berlin. When you had already founded your first all-girl alternative pop band, Angel's Delight, at the age of 13 (back then still in Munich) and have been active as a musician ever since, it's not so easy to ignore your original passion. She even played concerts in New York City with the indie folk-pop band Dear Henry Bliss, among others, and was then described by Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2014 as "one of the best singer-songwriters Munich has produced" when she started out as a solo artist, namely Port Noo. It was time to pick up the thread again, to spell DIY, to set up a home recording studio, to get to grips with things like website design and to write and produce new songs. The first six will be released this summer as the EP Standing On The Moon.

Port Noo is not only a symbolic new harbor, however, but also a place where Hannah Permanetter can indulge in her hellish enjoyment of mixing influences from a wide range of genres and eras. One moment she's playing acoustic guitar like Joni Mitchell, the next electric guitar like Kim Deal, backing vocals like Aretha Franklin or the Beach Boys and a synth bass like her late nineties heroes Portishead, Gomez and Beck. All of this, mixed with Permanetter's melancholy voice, his penchant for pop melodies and the self-critical and time-critical lyrics, nestles warmly and thoughtfully on your shoulder at first, only to tickle a surprised smile on your lips the next moment.

On closer inspection, however, Port Noo is not a solo project per se. Permanetter's talent for finding good people for her music was already evident on her first album In The Middle Of Everything from 2017. The album, produced by Paul Pilot, features renowned musicians such as Tom Osander (Damien Rice), Brian Crosby (BellX1), Ben Castle (Duke Special, Jamie Cullum, Radiohead) and Francesco Wilking (Die Höchste Eisenbahn). And for the new songs, too, she showed a knack for finding like-minded collaborators. Actresses Rebecca Motzel and Paula Leitner joined in as backing vocalists, former Lemonbabies bassist Barbara Mayer ended her musical slumber after 20 years and even drummer-influencer Martina Barakoska, who had recently moved to Berlin, could not resist the subtle melancholy of Port Noo's songs.

Port Noo

Hannah Permanetter founded her first all-girl alternative pop band "Angel's Delight" in Munich in 1991 at the age of 13 and has been active as a musician ever since. Among others, she played with the indie folk-pop band "Dear Henry Bliss", which played numerous concerts and festivals in Europe between 2002 and 2013, and even in New York City in 2011, and released a total of three albums. In 2014, after moving to Berlin, Hannah's solo project Port Noo followed, alongside projects such as the songwriter supergroup "The Stewardesses" with, among others, Hamburg artist and label owner Catharina Boutari, and the electro-indie artpop band "Guidebooks" with Irish producer, songwriter and Grammy Award winner Paul Pilot. Port Noo's debut album In The Middle Of Everything, produced by Paul Pilot, was released in 2017 on the Berlin indie label Goldrausch Records.