Sub Rosa

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.

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.

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).

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).

Three "night music" pieces by Czech composer Petr Bakla, centered around the piano.

Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.

Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.

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.

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.

The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.

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.

The new album of the French duo Puce Moment—a climatic music, often inhabited by a strong emotional power.

Laszlo Umbreit's album Pas de regrets combines electronic sounds with recorded memories and various materials to create a unique listening experience.

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.

Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music, inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music.

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.

A double-creation with four hands, surprising, intelligent and sensitive, between minimal experimentations, avant-garde pop and dissonance.

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.

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.

Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.

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.

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 and György Ligeti revisited by Ensemble 0.

Released in Sub Rosas Early Electronic series, Reinhold Weber's Complete Electronic & Phonetic Works 1968-1974.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

One of Ghédalia Tazartès' final recordings, with Rhys Chatham, in 2018-2019.

Tetsuo Furudate's new album, featuring Keiko Higuchi and Olga Magieres.

A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

Post-isolationist, deep ambient & folk classic Murder Ballads (Drift) by M.J. Harris (Scorn) and Martyn Bates (Eyeless in Gaza) re-emerges in this first vinyl outing.

This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an "inner soundscape", a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn.

Unreleased 25'06 side A track (1979-80) + selected works circa 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.

Winter Family's new album, a composition for a dance piece by Italian choreographer Paco Dècina (pipe organ, piano, voice), partially recorded in St Martin church of Maxéville, France.

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.