Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
245 titles
 
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (vinyl LP)
2023
forthcoming
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, first time on vinyl.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (CD)
2023
forthcoming
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, reissued for the first time.
Maurice Louca - Moonshine (vinyl LP)
2023
forthcoming
A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.
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
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.
Exploring Gong Culture of Southeast Asia - Massif and Archipelago (vinyl LP)
2022
17.00 12.50 €
A field recording project initiated by Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, documenting traditional gong music by different Southeast Asian ethnic groups.
Exploring Gong Culture of Southeast Asia - Massif and Archipelago (2 CD + booklet)
2022
A field recording project initiated by Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, documenting traditional gong music by different Southeast Asian ethnic groups (2 CDs with a 52 page booklet).
Mick Harris - Murder Ballads [Passages] (2 vinyl LP)
2022
The second chapter of the post-isolationist, deep ambient & folk classic Murder Ballads by M.J. Harris (Scorn) and Martyn Bates (Eyeless in Gaza) re-emerges in this first vinyl outing.
Pauline Oliveros - Musica Nuvolosa - Performed by Ensemble 0 (CD)
2022
Pauline Oliveros and György Ligeti revisited by Ensemble 0.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Conductor / Life and Death of Pboc (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Two rare historical recordings (1983 and 1986) by the godfather of Dark Ambient, originally released as single sides and gathered here for the first time.
Reinhold Weber - Complete Electronic & Phonetic Works 1968-1974 (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Released in Sub Rosas Early Electronic series, Reinhold Weber's Complete Electronic & Phonetic Works 1968-1974.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Aktual University (CD)
2022
15.00 11.00 €
Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.
Maurice Louca - Elephantine (vinyl LP)
2022
17.00 13.50 €
A long form composition of six movements from Maurice Louca, with the Lebanese improvisational group A Trio, featuring Anthea Caddy, Khaled Yassine, and Christina Kazaryan, between Arabic music and psychedelic folk.
Maurice Louca - Elephantine – Limited Edition (marbled vinyl LP)
2022
A long form composition of six movements from Maurice Louca, with the Lebanese improvisational group A Trio, featuring Anthea Caddy, Khaled Yassine, and Christina Kazaryan, between Arabic music and psychedelic folk.
 Palo Alto - The Tears Of Nietszche - Feat. Richard Pinhas (7\'\' Limited Clear Vinyl)
2022
10.00 7.50 €
Following Palo Alto's previous Difference and Repetition – A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2LP/CD this limited 7'' edition features The Tears of Nietszche on side A with Richard Pinhas as guest musician and Vecteur d'abolition on side B with the voice of Gilles Deleuze.
Frederic Rzewski - Speaking Rzewski - Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (CD)
2022
15.00 11.00 €
Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).
Ghédalia Tazartès - Two Men In A Boat (vinyl LP)
2021
currently out of stock
One of Ghédalia Tazartès' final recordings, with Rhys Chatham, in 2018-2019.
Sarah Defrise - Sarah Defrise sings For Cathy - A Capella Album – A Tribute to Cathy Berberian (CD)
2021
Belgian soprano Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, featuring exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Berberian by some of the most prominent composers of her time.
Tetsuo Furudate - The Nocturne, The Nightmare and a Fruit (CD)
2021
Tetsuo Furudate's new album, featuring Keiko Higuchi and Olga Magieres.
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