Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
259 titles
 
 Ryoichi Kurokawa - Sirens (book + CD)
2016
English edition
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
Five immersive audiovisual works that combine digitally generated visuals by Kurokawa and sound explorations by Thanasis Kaproulias (working under the moniker Novi_sad). An impressive body of work which explores the aesthetics of data and the visual representation of economic crisis.
Karel Appel - Musique barbare (CD)
2016
Reissue of CoBrA co-founder's masterpiece of musique concrete.
Karel Appel - Musique barbare (vinyl LP)
2016
Reissue of CoBrA co-founder's masterpiece of musique concrete.
Zbigniew Karkowski - A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush - The Last Recordings, Sweden, November 2013 (2 CD)
2016
Zbigniew Karkowski's last recording, in Sweden, November 2013—a few weeks before his death—accompanied by musicians Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund.
 Book of Air - Fieldtone (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.
 Cabaret contemporain - Moondog (CD)
2016
currently out of stock
French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.
 Lilly Joel - What Lies In The Sea (CD)
2016
13.00 9.50 €
What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.
Milan Knížák - Broken Music (vinyl LP)
2015
currently out of stock
Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.
Francisco López - La Selva - Sound Environments from a Neotropical Rain Forest (vinyl LP + USB HD)
2015
Ultimate mix from original recordings done at La Selva Biological Station during the rainy seasons of 1995 and 1996. This masterpiece is released in High-res audio on a USB card and comes with a silent vinyl (numbered and signed limited edition).
Israël Quellet - Sounds From There (CD)
2015
14.00 10.50 €
A complex and mysterious work by Swiss electro-acoustic artist Israël Quellet for symphonic bass drum, symphonic tympanies, organ, tibetan horn, homemade horn, triangle, tubular bells, shocks inside the church, anvil metal tank and church bells. A challenging listen, but so rewarding.
Charlemagne Palestine - Youuu + Mee = Weeee (3 CD)
2015
166 minutes with Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).
Roberto Gerhard - Electronic Explorations from his Studio + the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1958-1967 (CD)
2015
(last copies available!)
During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, giving at the end a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronicwork to speak clearly to the listener.
Jac Berrocal - MDLV (CD)
2014
The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.
Jac Berrocal - MDLV (vinyl LP)
2014
The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.
 Langham Research Centre - Early Electronic & Tape Music (CD)
2014
(last copies available!)
Historically important pieces documenting John Cage's early electronic and tape practice.
Robin Rimbaud - The Garden is full of Metal - Homage to Derek Jarman (CD)
2014
A tribute to film director Derek Jarman (reissue of the second full-length album by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner on Sub Rosa).
David Toop - Mondo Black Chamber (2 CD)
2014
The complete series of works made by David Toop for Sub Rosa, 1996-2003.
Jean Dubuffet - Coucou Bazar (CD)
2013
All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (2 CD)
2013
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (LP)
2013
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
Luc Ferrari - Programme Commun (2 CD)
2012
Three substantial pieces by Luc Ferrari, with solo works of Brunhild Ferrari.
Hans van Eck - La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura / Nuctemeron (CD / SACD)
2012
Two works by the Italian avant-garde composer of classical music Luigi Nono and the composer, sound artist and musicologist Hans van Eck.
Stefan Prins - Fremdkörper (2 CD)
2012
13.00 9.00 €
A totally original and disturbing sound world mixing acoustic and electro-acoustic pieces.
Marianne Pousseur - Only (CD)
2011
Marianne Pousseur sings John Cage and James Joyce, Morton Feldman and Rainer Maria Rilke, Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtág, Henri Pousseur and Friederich Hölderlin, Frederic Rzewski and Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, Michel Butor, Théodore Botrel, Rudolf Sieczynski...
Henri Pousseur - Parabolique d\'Enfer / Parabolic from Hell (CD)
2011
First posthumous recording of Henri Pousseur.
John Wynne - Installation for 300 Speakers, Pianola and Vacuum Cleaner (CD)
2011
John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner, at once monumental, minimal and immersive, using sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.
Giacinto Scelsi - Tre Canti Popolari + Due Componimenti Impetuosi (2 CD)
2010
currently out of stock
Two long time out of stock references, remastered at le Laboratoire Central.
Peter Downsbrough - And That (vinyl LP)
2009
An audio work by Peter Downsbrough, in collaboration with two musicians of the Buffle collective Xavier Garcia-Bardon and Benjamin Franklin.
Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (2 CD)
2008
One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
Brion Gysin - Live in London, 1982 (CD)
2007
Recorded four years before the death of Beat legend Brion Gysin, this live set features the poet reciting poems from the late '50s and early '60s, accompanied by a makeshift no wave backing band.
Stephen Vitiello - Listening to Donald Judd (CD)
2007
A work in progress evolving from the numerous recordings Stephen Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas.
Henri Pousseur - Hommage au sauvage - Un portrait d\'Henri Pousseur (DVD)
2005
French / English subtitles
A journey into Henri Pousseur's archives.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 CD)
2023
sold out
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable) (vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
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.
Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Conductor / Life and Death of Pboc (2 vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
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.
Leo Kupper - Complete Electronic & Voices Works 1961-1987 (3 CD)
2022
sold out
The complete works of one of the pioneers of Belgian early electronics.
Michel Redolfi - Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987 (vinyl LP)
2021
sold out
A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Julius Eastman - Three Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 CD)
2021
sold out
Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
Phill Niblock - Opening Performance Orchestra plays Phill Niblock - Four Walls Full Of Sound (CD)
2021
sold out
An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.
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