Sub Rosa

Records by legendary avant-garde, experimental and electronic music label Sub Rosa
 
Brussels
 
269 titles
 
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Keep Together (Vol. 2) (2 CD + booklet)
2024
forthcoming
30 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 new essays and articles, original photos and other documentation.
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Keep Together (Vol. 2) (2 vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
forthcoming
30 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 new essays and articles, original photos and other documentation.
Stefan Prins - Inhabit (2 CD)
2024
forthcoming
The second release by Stefan Prins on Sub Rosa brings together four recent, large-scale compositions in which traditional instruments—from bass woodwind trio to electric guitar and symphonic orchestra—merge seamlessly with electronics, feedback, and field recordings.
 Mazza Vision - Ohm Spectrum (CD)
2024
forthcoming
The first album of this new digital-drone-rock-noise/ambient/electronica project created by two founding members of Tone Rec and DAT Politics (Claude Pailliot - Gaetan Collet). Inspirational collision of motorik avant rock and heavy electronics.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (vinyl LP)
2024
forthcoming
Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (CD)
2024
forthcoming
Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
Women In Turkish Electronic Music (CD)
2024
A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.
Jean-Luc Fafchamps - Ensemble(s) (CD)
2024
Performed by Musiques Nouvelles, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps's eighth release, a kind of compilation of unreleased or rare pieces covering nearly three decades, is undoubtedly the best introduction to his work.
 Merzbow - Pia-Noise (CD)
2024
currently out of stock
The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.
Frédéric D. Oberland - SIHR (vinyl LP)
2024
Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.
Frédéric D. Oberland - SIHR (CD)
2024
Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.
 Pangea De Futura - War Milk (vinyl LP)
2024
The debut studio album from the Montreal supergroup Pangea de Futura, an octet that has been exploring since 2019, the many ways of—slowly—constructing massive textural musical shapes and droning tribal post-rock ambiances.
Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music - 1953-1969 (vinyl LP)
2024
Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series, this LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research—almost all hidden—by Spanish musicians in the '50s and '60s.
Miroslav Beinhauer - Pieces For Sixth-Tone Harmonium (2 CD)
2024
New compositions (by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska) for the sixth-tone harmonium conceived by Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music Alois Hába in the 1920s and '30s, performed by Miroslav Beinhauerr, currently the only player of this unique instrument in the world, who has single-handedly revived it after decades of slumber.
Baudouin de Jaer - Five Traces - Geomungo Compositions Vol III (CD)
2024
currently out of stock
Baudouin de Jaer pursues his exploration of the geomungo, a traditional six-string Korean bass zither, with a wordless opera in three acts.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (CD)
2024
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 second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 1 (CD)
2024
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...
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (vinyl LP)
2024
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 second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
Rudy Trouvé - Musik F​ü​r Animierten Tonspurfilm (vinyl LP)
2024
The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
Kaoru Tashiro - Miragique (CD)
2024
This second project released on Sub Rosa by the Japanese artist Kaoru Tashiro, manages to create a subtle dialogue between four composers, and four musical pieces, mixing a delicate blend of Japanese and European sensibilities. Those different approaches convergence thanks to the highly recognisable sensibility of Kaoru Tashiro's way to play.
 Kink Gong - Funeral Gongs Ceremonies in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
2024
Those recordings of Gongs Orchestras were made during Funeral Ceremonies in two Kung villages and one Jaraï village in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong) in 2003 and 2004, at a times when jungle had not been replaced by rubber plantations. Focusing on funeral's ceremonies, those hypnotics pieces are intense and haunting harmonics sonic experiments.
 Phaerentz - It\'s Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music) (2 CD)
2024
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, first time on vinyl.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (CD)
2023
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, reissued for the first time.
Maurice Louca - Moonshine (vinyl LP)
2023
A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.
 Univers Zéro - Lueur (vinyl LP)
2023
(last copies available!)
Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
Fred Frith - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (vinyl LP)
2023
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.
Fred Frith - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (CD)
2023
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.
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 CD + booklet)
2023
currently out of stock
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).
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 vinyl LP + booklet)
2023
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).
Petr Bakla - Late Night Show (CD)
2023
Three "night music" pieces by Czech composer Petr Bakla, centered around the piano.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (2 vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (CD)
2023
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - High Tide In The Lowlands (vinyl LP)
2023
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.
Terry Day - Alterations - Logos Foundation, Gent, 01​/​31​/​1981 (vinyl LP)
2023
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.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Hastings of Malawi - Choreological Exchanges (vinyl LP)
2023
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.
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