Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
259 titles
 
Charlemagne Palestine - Youuu + Mee = Weeee (vinyl LP)
2015
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The first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).
Harold Budd - Music for Fragments from the Inside (2 vinyl LP)
2015
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First vinyl release of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.
Roberto Gerhard - Electronic Explorations from his Studio + the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1958-1967 (vinyl LP)
2015
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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.
Trevor Wishart - Red Bird - A Political Prisoner\'s Dream (vinyl LP)
2015
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Red Bird was composed between 1973 and 1977, using the studio of the University of York Music in UK. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds.
 Logos Ensemble - Another Evening at Logos 1974/79/81 (2 vinyl LP)
2015
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This LP inaugurates a new series of vinyl-only releases based on the extraordinary Logos archives. Here, never released before recordings from live sessions at Logos Foundation, in 1974, 1979 & 1981, featuring Max Eastley, Feminist Improvising Group, COUM, Derek Bailey, and the Logos Ensemble.
Angus MacLise - New York Electronic, 1965 (vinyl LP)
2014
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MacLise's early electronic music.
Salvatore Martirano - The SalMar Construction (vinyl LP)
2014
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The SalMar Construction is an amazing large music synthesis engine conceived and constructed in the early 1970's by a composer for use by a composer. These unreleased recordings were made at IRCAM in Paris in 1983. It illustrates the power that an electronic composition can achieve when the composer arrives at a true synergy with his synthesizer.
Christian Wolff - Pianist: Pieces - Performed by Philip Thomas (3 CD)
2014
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As a body of repertoire, these 150 pieces of Christian Wolff are remarkable for their freshness of musical thought and energy (John Cage considered Wolff to be the most “musical” of the experimental composers).
The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (2 vinyl LP)
2014
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The first Luigi Russolo's intonarumori complete reconstruction ever attempted. Some of the Russolo instruments have been reconstructed here for the first time.
 Langham Research Centre - Early Electronic & Tape Music (vinyl LP)
2014
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Historically important pieces documenting John Cage's early electronic and tape practice.
Leo Kupper - Electronic Works & Voices 1961-1979 (2 vinyl LP)
2014
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This record highlights Leo Kupper's earliest unique compositions produced during the 1960's when he was ardently seeking out structures distinctly applicable to purely electronic sounds.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 7 - Seventh and Last A-Chronology 1930-2012 (3 CD)
2013
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The seventh and last volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1930-2012), including unreleased material and rarities (Henry Jacobs, Tziga Vertov, Luciano Berio, Bülent Arel, Don Preston, Helmut Schäfer, E-L Scott de Martinville, John Oswald, Justin K. Broadrick, Storm Bugs, Henry Cow, Osso Exotico, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Cabaret Voltaire, Mika Vainio, New GX Jupitter-Larsen...), and a 84 pages booklet of critical and biographic notes.
 Art Zoyd - Musique Pour L\'Odyssée (CD)
2013
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This second Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional bonus tracks.
François Bayle - Les couleurs de la nuit (CD)
2013
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The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.
François Bayle - Les couleurs de la nuit (vinyl LP)
2013
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The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.
Fuck You - Fucking Noise in China Now (DVD)
2012
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
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100 minutes of electronic noise music and harsh speeches: a road movie between Beijing and Shanghai featuring Torturing Nurse, Wang Changcun, Wang Fan, Li Jian Hung / Dickson Dee, the poet Sun Meng Jin and Zbigniew Karkowski as radical red line.
Adolf Wölfli - Analysis Of The Musical Cryptograms / The Heavenly Ladder (book / CD)
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Baudouin de Jaer decodes Adolf Wölfli's hermetic and emblematic scores.
 Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (CD)
2011
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This cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional tracks.
Célestin Deliège - Ecce Homo - A Portrait of Célestin Deliège (DVD)
2011
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
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A deep, strong and raw portrait of one of the greatest musical thinker in Europa. Célestin Deliège.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 6 - Sixth A-Chronology 1957-2010 (2 CD)
2010
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The sixth volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1957-2010), including unreleased material and rarities.
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music for Piano, Harpsichord & Strings Ensemble (3 CD)
2010
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Charlemagne Palestine's most contemporary music work.
Henri Pousseur - Electronic experimental and microtonal 1953-1999 (CD)
2009
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5 rare pieces that come from 5 decades.
Le groupe surréaliste révolutionnaire, Dotremont et Broodthaers (1939-1978) - L\'anthologie sonore de l\'avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1978 – Volume 3 (CD)
2008
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Third volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.
Pauline Oliveros - Four electronic pieces 1959-1966 (CD)
2008
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Pauline Oliveros's early and definitive contribution to the tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties.
David Toop - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - A portrait of David Toop through his records collection (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitles)
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A filmed portrait of David Toop through his records collection (from Pan Sonic to Australian frogs recordings), a conversation about hidden connections between different kinds of music, and about the fine line between music and non music.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 5 - Fifth A-Chronology 1920-2007 (2 CD)
2007
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The fifth volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1920-2007), including unreleased material and rarities (Charlemagne Palestine, Wolf Vostell, Pere Ubu, Dub Taylor, Henri Chopin, Raoul Hausmann, Mauricio Kagel, Dajuin Yao, Alireza Mashayekhi, Sutcliffe Jügend, Vladimir Mayakovsky...).
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 4 - Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005 (2 CD)
2006
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The second volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1937-2005), including unreleased material (Maja Ratkje, Beatriz Ferreyra, Laurie Spiegel, Vibracathedral Orchestra...) and rarities (György Ligeti, François Bayle + Robert Wyatt + Kevin Ayers, Les Rallizes Dénudés...).
Magritte, le groupe surréaliste de Bruxelles, Rupture (1926-1938) - L\'anthologie sonore de l\'avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1978 – Volume 2 (CD)
2006
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Second volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.
Dada, Pansaers et Correspondance (1917-1926) - L\'anthologie sonore de l\'avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1978 – Volume 1 (CD)
2005
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First volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 3 - Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (2 CD)
2004
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The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004).
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 2 - Second A-Chronology 1936-2003 (2 CD)
2003
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The second volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1936-2003), including unreleased material (Laibach, Alan R. Splet, Kim Cascone, Autechre, Tod Dockstader, Scanner, Morton Subotnick) and rarities (Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, SPK, Luc Ferrari...).
Angus MacLise - The Cloud Doctrine (2 CD)
2003
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159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, soundtracks from the archives of Angus MacLise 1963-1976.
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music – Volume 1 - First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (2 CD)
2002
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The first volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1921-2001), with some major works (Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Henri Pousseur, Konrad Boehmer, Luigi Russolo), a few rarities (John Cage, Nam June Paik, Gordon Mumma, Walter Ruttmann) and plenty of previously unreleased material (Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, DJ Spooky, Ryoji Ikeda, Pauline Oliveros, Angus MacLise, Philip Jeck, Survival Research Laboratories...).
Nam June Paik - Works 1958-1979 (CD)
2001
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The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.
Gerard Malanga - Up from the Archives (CD)
2000
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Gerard Malanga's first hand documents from his personal archives, with unpublished music by various personalities.
Marcel Duchamp - The creative act (CD)
1994
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Edited by Marc Dachy, this first CD devoted exclusively to Marcel Duchamp brings forth some very rare documents of the '50s.
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