Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
259 titles
 
Octavian Nemescu - Gradeatia / Natural - 1973-83 (vinyl LP)
2018
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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.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Merzopo (2 CD)
2018
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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.
Pauline Oliveros - Early Electronic Works 1959-66 (2 vinyl LP)
2018
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Pauline Oliveros's early and rare electronic works in a strictly limited edition on silver vinyl—with no reprint.
Jean-Claude Roché - Birds of Venezuela (vinyl LP)
2018
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Beautifully produced LP of birdsongs from Venezuela, originally released in 1973 by the famous French ornithologist. Introduction by David Toop.
Music from Yemen Arabia - Sanaani, Laheji, Adeni and Samar (2 vinyl LP)
2018
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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.
 M.A.L. - My Sixteen Little Planets (vinyl LP)
2018
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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.
 Sote - Sacred Horror In Design - Persian Electronic Music Vol. 2  (vinyl LP)
2018
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Deriving from an eponymous audiovisual performance, this electroacoustic project by Sote (Ata Ebtekar) blends traditional music from Iran with hardcore electronics.
Tom De Cock - Mani (2 CD)
2018
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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).
David Toop - Suttle Sculpture (vinyl LP)
2018
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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.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (2 CD)
2018
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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.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (vinyl LP)
2018
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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.
 Digital Dance - Digital Dance 002 (vinyl LP)
2017
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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.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Metaphors - Selected Soundworks from the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (CD)
2017
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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.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Metaphors - Selected Soundworks from the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (vinyl LP)
2017
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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.
 Coil - Another Brown World / Baby Food (limited marbled vinyl EP)
2017
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Two extra rare tracks by Coil, commissioned by Sub Rosa. Never released on vinyl before (limited marbled vinyl edition).
 Coil - Another Brown World / Baby Food (vinyl EP)
2017
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Two extra rare tracks by Coil, commissioned by Sub Rosa. Never released on vinyl before.
Luc Ferrari - Complete Music For Films - 1960-1984 (3 CD)
2017
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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.
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 CD)
2017
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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.
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 vinyl LP)
2017
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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.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (2 vinyl LP)
2017
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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.
Bülent Arel - Electronic Music - 1960-1973 (vinyl LP)
2017
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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.
Luc Ferrari - Tinguely 1967 (vinyl LP)
2017
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Unreleased recordings composed for the cinema and the television.
Hugo Race - Long Distance Operators (CD)
2017
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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.
Teun Verbruggen - The Miracles Of Only One Thing (vinyl LP)
2017
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In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 3 - Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (3 vinyl LP)
2016
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The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004), for the first time on vinyl (3 discs with a poster booklet).
 Hastings of Malawi - Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth (vinyl LP)
2016
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First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.
Inuit - 55 Historical Recordings Of Traditional Music From Greenland 1905-87 (2 vinyl LP)
2016
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More than an hour of ultra-rare documents, recorded in several places in Greenland and Canada from 1905 to 1987: the testimony of a century of Inuits recordings.
Inuit - 55 Historical Recordings Of Traditional Music From Greenland 1905-87 (CD)
2016
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More than an hour of ultra-rare documents, recorded in several places in Greenland and Canada from 1905 to 1987: the testimony of a century of Inuits recordings.
Radionics Radio - An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought-Frequencies (CD)
2016
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Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.
Harold Budd - Music for Fragments from the Inside (CD)
2016
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New CD edition of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.
Pauline Oliveros - Four Meditations / Sound Geometrics (vinyl LP)
2016
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Pauline Oliveros surrounded by Belgian Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, performing 2 long pieces for orchestra.
William S. Burroughs - Break Through In Grey Room (vinyl LP)
2016
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Cut-up, lectures, incantations, soundworks recorded by the American writer himself in hotel rooms in Paris, London & New York, in the early 1960s (one of Sub Rosa's absolute classics, officially re-released).
Henri Pousseur - Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-72 (2 vinyl LP)
2016
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This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works—his first steps—starting in 1954, when at twenty-five he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen had created most of his famous pieces.
 Cabaret contemporain - Moondog (vinyl LP)
2016
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French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.
Hossein Malek - Santur - Occident / Orient (CD)
2016
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Two different approaches—the Eastern and Western—to Persian instrument Santur, by musicians Hossein Malek and Leo Kupper.
David Toop - Life on the inside (vinyl LP)
2016
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Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.
 Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur (CD)
2015
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This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional track.
 Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur (vinyl LP)
2015
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This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork.
André Stordeur - Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Works - 1978-2000 (2 vinyl LP)
2015
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An anthology of the work of a key composer of Belgian electronic music (color vinyl).
André Stordeur - Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Works - 1978-2000 (3 CD)
2015
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The complete work (unreleased for the most part of it) by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.
David Toop - Lost Shadows – In Defence Of The Soul - Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 (CD)
2015
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The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen.
David Toop - Lost Shadows – In Defence Of The Soul - Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 (vinyl LP)
2015
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The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen (LP version mixed by Lawrence English).
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