Sub Rosa

Julius Eastman's major yet long-forgotten ensemble piece from 1974, dense and hypnotic, played by Ensemble 0.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Palo Alto pays tribute to Gilles Deleuze in a dazzling, radical and political concept album (featuring Richard Pinhas, Thierry Zaboitzeff of Art Zoyd, Alain Damasio and Rhys Chatham).

Palo Alto pays tribute to Gilles Deleuze in a dazzling, radical and political concept album (featuring Richard Pinhas, Thierry Zaboitzeff of Art Zoyd, Alain Damasio and Rhys Chatham).

Through “Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017,” more than 40 years of Joris de Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from “Signalisations” (1976) to “Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman” (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.

Walls of Sounds is a music of sonic sensations. It is a physical and sensual approach to the phenomenon of thick sound worlds. Sound waves become physical objects, four-dimensional sonic sculptures to be experienced, bodily and mentally (works by Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, John Cage, John Duncan, James Tenney, Terry Riley, Lee Ranaldo, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Boris Hegenbart, Ulrich Krieger, Zbigniew Karkowski).

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

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...

Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.

Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.

A compilation of string compositions and collages by multimedia artist and composer Milan Knížák, performed by the fama Q string quartet.

Oiseaux-Tempête's fourth studio album embraces the new, leaving aside the nomadic evocations of the previous albums to unfold as a twilight and prophetic orchestra around G.W. Sok's punctuated voice.

Available for the first time outside Japan, another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from legendary band Univers Zéro.

This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.

This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.

This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.

A collaborative 2-CD album by Japan noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra. The first CD features four folk-inspired Merzbow compositions. The second CD gathers two live recordings of the Opening, made in Tokyo and Prague.

Two electronic pieces by avant-garde Romanian composer Octavian Nemescu. Recorded in 1982, Gradeatia is an ambient track designed to accompany the mural paintings at the Voronet monastery in Romanian Moldavia. The second composition, Natural, appears in its original version of 1973, and in its final version of 1983.

Pauline Oliveros's early and rare electronic works in a strictly limited edition on silver vinyl—with no reprint.

Beautifully produced LP of birdsongs from Venezuela, originally released in 1973 by the famous French ornithologist. Introduction by David Toop.

This compilation features traditional songs that originate from the city of Sanaa, the sheikdom of Lahej, and the port of Aden. The term samar, which is the title of the compilation' second part, describes the delicious, luxury time when people gather for relaxation, refreshment and music. Music performed by the Kawkabani brothers and oudh player Hassan al Zabeede.

35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed albumVibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth the British dadaist group Hastings of Malawi have released a new album—an epic sound poem entitled Visceral Underskinnings. It is a 40 minute film without light that reflects on the human condition, on modern society, on the nature of telephony and electricity and an attempt to make sense of the world in which we live that provides no answers.

First-time release of the tapes that are said to have inspired Manuel Göttsching's classic, Inventions for Electric Guitar. Recorded between 1972 and 1976, these revolutionary tracks by M.A.L. aka Daniel Malempré were made using only an electric guitar Fender Stratocaster 1964, a Wah-Wah pedal, and a reel to reel recorder.

Deriving from an eponymous audiovisual performance, this electroacoustic project by Sote (Ata Ebtekar) blends traditional music from Iran with hardcore electronics.

This the very first LP of the new collection “Contra Naturam”, a collaboration between Brussels-based contemporary music ensemble Ictus Ensemble and music label Sub Rosa. This audio recording presents a percussion-based composition by Pierluigi Billone, performed by Tom De Cock. Booklet features an unpublished essay by Laurent Feneyrou (in English, Dutch, French).

Never released before recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions in Brussels, on May 7, 1977. Toop and Burwell's association, which ran during the seventies, was a good mixture of musical decomposition through free improvisation, bioacoustics, environmental sound, raw musics, anthropology, and esoterism.

Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1992 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.

Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1984 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.

This new record is the re-release of the Belgian cult post-punk band's last cassette tape, reflecting a more raw and experimental side of their work and the beginnings of what was to come. Remastered in 2017.

Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.

Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.

Two extra rare tracks by Coil, commissioned by Sub Rosa. Never released on vinyl before (limited marbled vinyl edition).

Two extra rare tracks by Coil, commissioned by Sub Rosa. Never released on vinyl before.

This 3CD set gathers the complete work by Luc Ferrari for films  from 1960 to 1984 including electronic pieces, concrete music made in GRM and some hybrid including traditional instruments. These rare and for the most part unpublished recordings comprise collaborations with Jean Cocteau and Jean Tinguely.

Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.

Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.

A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.

Providing a selection of tracks produced during Arel's American years, this compilation puts to the fore a work which occupies a special place in the history of electronic music because of its groundbreaking role and everlasting freshness.

Unreleased recordings composed for the cinema and the television.

Born from the collaboration between the Australian musician Hugo Race and the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, the music of LDO is an intensely atmospheric dreamweave of violins, electronics and Hugo's darkly evocative voice. The duo explores metaphysical lyrics, experimental sounds and retro-baroque orchestrations in a romantic, song-based context.