Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
256 titles
 
Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music - 1953-1969 (vinyl LP)
2024
forthcoming
Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series, this LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research—almost all hidden—by Spanish musicians in the '50s and '60s.
Miroslav Beinhauer - Pieces For Sixth​-​Tone Harmonium (2 CD)
2024
forthcoming
New compositions (by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska) for the sixth-tone harmonium conceived by Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music Alois Hába in the 1920s and '30s, performed by Miroslav Beinhauerr, currently the only player of this unique instrument in the world, who has single-handedly revived it after decades of slumber.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (CD)
2024
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 1 (CD)
2024
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The first volume is an exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses. It features records of spiritual séances and medium trances, haunting spirits and haunted places, audios of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini...
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (vinyl LP)
2024
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
Rudy Trouvé - Musik F​ü​r Animierten Tonspurfilm (vinyl LP)
2024
The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
Kaoru Tashiro - Miragique (CD)
2024
This second project released on Sub Rosa by the Japanese artist Kaoru Tashiro, manages to create a subtle dialogue between four composers, and four musical pieces, mixing a delicate blend of Japanese and European sensibilities. Those different approaches convergence thanks to the highly recognisable sensibility of Kaoru Tashiro's way to play.
 Kink Gong - Funeral Gongs Ceremonies in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
2024
Those recordings of Gongs Orchestras were made during Funeral Ceremonies in two Kung villages and one Jaraï village in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong) in 2003 and 2004, at a times when jungle had not been replaced by rubber plantations. Focusing on funeral's ceremonies, those hypnotics pieces are intense and haunting harmonics sonic experiments.
 Phaerentz - It\'s Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music) (2 CD)
2024
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (vinyl LP)
2023
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, first time on vinyl.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (CD)
2023
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, reissued for the first time.
Maurice Louca - Moonshine (vinyl LP)
2023
A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.
 Univers Zéro - Lueur (vinyl LP)
2023
(last copies available!)
Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
 Univers Zéro - Lueur (CD)
2023
currently out of stock
Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
Fred Frith - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (vinyl LP)
2023
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
Fred Frith - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (CD)
2023
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 CD + booklet)
2023
29 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 72 page booklet with texts and pictures).
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 vinyl LP + booklet)
2023
18 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 24 page booklet with texts and pictures).
Petr Bakla - Late Night Show (CD)
2023
Three "night music" pieces by Czech composer Petr Bakla, centered around the piano.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (2 vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (CD)
2023
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - High Tide In The Lowlands (vinyl LP)
2023
Hypnotic instrumental improvisation-based explorations by the trio from Cairo featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) are propelled by North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, a West African tinged free jazz guitar and a driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.
David Toop - Alterations - Logos Foundation, Gent, 01​/​31​/​1981 (vinyl LP)
2023
Never released before recordings by the improvising quartet Alterations (active from 1977 to 1986, and reforming in 2015) from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 vinyl LP)
2023
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Hastings of Malawi - Choreological Exchanges (vinyl LP)
2023
Recorded at the height of the global pandemic, and at a time when remote communication was becoming increasingly prevalent, "Choreological Exchanges" is part of Hastings Of Malawi's continuing investigations into the medium of communication itself.
 Puce Moment - Epic Ellipses (vinyl LP)
2023
The new album of the French duo Puce Moment—a climatic music, often inhabited by a strong emotional power.
Laszlo Umbreit - Pas de regrets (vinyl LP)
2023
Laszlo Umbreit's album Pas de regrets combines electronic sounds with recorded memories and various materials to create a unique listening experience.
 Lilly Joel - Lilly Joel Plays The Organ - Sibyl Of The Rhine (CD)
2023
Lynn Cassiers and Jozef Dumoulin pay a luminous tribute to the music of the twelfth-century composer, abbess, mystic and poetess Hildegard von Bingen, in a setup of voice with electronics accompanied by pipe organ.
Otto Sidharta - Kajang (vinyl LP)
2023
Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music, inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music.
 Sote - Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran (vinyl LP)
2023
Limited green vinyl version of the latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.
Pierre-Yves Macé - L\'Effet Rebond (Version Silicium / Version Iridium) (2 CD)
2022
A double-creation with four hands, surprising, intelligent and sensitive, between minimal experimentations, avant-garde pop and dissonance.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable) (CD)
2022
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.
Eric Thielemans - A New Score for Koyaanisqatsi (vinyl LP)
2022
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose, after Phillip Glass, a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualising the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic and touching images of this 80-ties cinematographic masterpiece.
Milan Knížák - Another State of Stagnation / Piano Pieces (1991-2021) (CD)
2022
Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.
Leo Kupper - Electronic Works & Voices 1977-1987 (2 vinyl LP)
2022
This release highlights Leo Kupper's earliest compositions with his GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generatorof Electronic Music) constructed during the 1960's. Purely electronic sounds into new structures, Leo Kupper shows through his 4 tracks a real spirit of renewal.
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