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... happy spring everyone !!! to commemorate our favorite season (and to help* get this place back to some sort of workable condition)* we're having a "spring cleaning" sale !!! please visit the *spring (2013)* cleaning page to view a list** of (recent, mostly 2012) releases that we're now offering at reduced prices (while supplies last, no rainchecks, etc) ...

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$13.01

back in stock as of
april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
july 6th, 2007

threads:
harsh-noise
digital-musics

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 213 cd

merzbow / kim cascone “rondo / 7phases / blowback” compact disc

rondo (32:26)
7phases (16:28)
blowback (1:48)

sub rosa press release...

rondo / 7phases / blowback
merzbow + kim cascone
sr213

in the 80's, masami akita, asmus tietchens and kim cascone collaborated on a cd called 'grav' which was eventually released on silent records in the early 90's. having gone their separate ways, masami and kim reestablished contact in the late 90's. after email address were exchanged, kim received a copy of the 'amlux' cd from masami, and later heard about a remix project on important records paying tribute to the japanese industrial/ noise-maker.

cascone started his own remix based on extracts from 'amlux' cd. the new track was based on new editing techniques cascone developed which were experiments in time compression by combining tape editing techniques commonly used in musique concrete with simple algorithms developed in max/msp.

the track 'blowback' - the prototype track using this editing style - was completely constructed by hand using a software sound editor. '7phase' puts these editing techniques under algorithmic control in max/msp. by using each others published work as raw material for their collaboration. they then sent each other tracks via cdr to be used as either new source material or finished work. after choosing the best of the collection of tracks they had developed, kim and masami titled the pieces, sequenced the tracks and then designed a cover graphic for it using jitter (graphic library for max/msp).

$13.01

back in stock as of
april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
january 6th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 207 cd

luc ferrari “les anecdotiques” compact disc

ronda : spain : june 2001.
plaza de toros : ronda. rebuilding of an arena.
saint jean d'angélys : france. jully 2001. french actors try their clothes
toscana sky : italy. august 2001
superstrada n°2. toscana.
a cyprès at sunset. toscana.
mer d'eze. france. september 2001.
les vendanges. saint-laurent d'eze : france.
the ranch. texas usa : october 2001.
chicago usa. octobre 2001. rehersal for a concert.
harley davidson. texas. sunday ballad in a village.
l'estaque : france. juillet 2002. sounds from lafarge cimentery.
sea hole : trou de mer : l'estaque. juillet 2002
la joliette. port de marseille. france. the works of the harbour
the rove gates : les portes du rove. l'estaque.

luc ferrari’s final composition - a large-scale concrète work utilizing field recordings made throughout the world between 2001 and 2002.

sub rosa press release...

les anecdotiques
luc ferrari
sr207

luc ferrari : i have made works that more or less depart from purely musical concerns. some of them call for a meeting between different branches of what may be the same tree. the problem is to express in different ways the passing ideas, feelings and intuitions, to observe daily life in all its realities whether they be social, psychological or sentimental. these could come out in the form of texts, instrumental works, electro-acoustic compositions, journalism, films or shows.

luc ferrari : the re-build pass
even if his art is historically linked to the musique concrète school, luc ferrari (born in paris in 1929) is above all a man with a freedom of spirit rarely equalled in the history of music, who has repeatedly left what he excelled at for new territory still unexplored; thus he is par excellence the composer of new fields of investigation.

ferrari joined the groupe de musique concrète in 1958 and remained a member until 1966; he collaborated with pierre schaeffer in setting up the groupe de recherches musicales (1958). by 1963-4 he had begun hétérozygote, an extended tape piece in which ambient sounds unfold in narrative form, suggesting a dazzling variety of incidents, all unexplained. he was professor of composition at cologne's rheinische musikschule from 1964 to 65. in 1965 and 1966 he produced les grandes répétitions, a series of television documentaries with gérard patris on the subject of contemporary music, specifically olivier messiaen, edgard varèse, karlheinz stockhausen, hermann scherchen and cecil taylor.

les anecdotiques
luc ferrari's diverse work and aesthetics continue to have a singular impact on the young generations of electronic musicians and artists. the corpus of his work is immense and includes hundreds of compositions of all kinds. les anecdotiques - his last composition - is a vast sound-film of more than an hour who explores in 15 steps the intensity of re-composed sounds from his continual travel around the world - with electronic additional structures

$13.01

back in stock as of
april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
january 25th, 2008

threads:
digital-musics
sound-art
plunder-phonic

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 206 cd

christophe charles “undirected 1992-2002” compact disc

next point (hommage à henning christiansen) (21:15)
deposition (45:45)

sub rosa press release...

undirected 1992-2002
christophe charles
sr206

works & collaborations

undirected 1992-2002 is an "exploration" through music, texts and photographs, an echo from earth and its inhabitants.

composed in tokyo where christophe charles uses to live (he is now associate professor at musashino art university, tokyo), this release is a follow-up to'undirected 1986-1996' (1997 mille plateaux). charles also remixed microstoria in reprovisers (1997 mille plateaux) and yoshihiro hanno in april remix (2001, sub rosa). he also appeared on oval's 'dok' album (1997 thrill jockey). and worked on several occasion with ikeda ryoji on installations in japan.

...

undirected 1992-2002 features two compositions.

1

"next point - tribute to henning christiansen", is a performance given at the manca festival in 1992, it is an extension of "media opera" organized by yamaguchi katsuhiro in october 1992 on awaji island to celebrate the foundation of his "village of the arts". one can hear the rain falling in the south from majorca, the voices of salesmen of coffee and boiled eggs of the station of howrah, beside calcutta, the chants of the monks of todaiji in nara, and the calls of the merchants of ice cream of hangzhou (recorded by martina diestel). other sounds were sampled among the works of henning christiansen: sporadic chords of the piano of the cave of penthesilea, the very particular sound of the long pipe which christiansen hits more or less regularly on one end, "in order to give a certain feeling of time", or the bells and the tuba of the "garden of the yellow mountain" where low frequencies make almost inevitably vibrate the ceilings of the rooms where it is played.

2

'deposition' contains ten episodes of various lengths which are connected according to a dynamics of tension and relaxation. there is no particular narrative dimension, but "scenes", featuring soundscapes from various cities and countrysides, as well as musical (instruments) sounds: voice, flutes, or percussions, which reflect an interest for the fundamental actions of breathing, or hitting objects with the body - rather than praising the mastery of a particular technique. the sounds generally come from an action which does not have any musical claim, for example, the senegalese women who crush the millet. the voices are those of the salesmen from the fischmarkt of hamburg, the children of calcutta, italian dogs howling in the night, or insects of japanese mountains. other sounds come from a collaboration with ryoji ikeda, from "in memoriam gilles deleuze" and from the music of the two permanent sound installations of osaka and tokyo-narita international airport.

photographs

"photographs & cover : mobiles floating in the space" some photos (like the back cover) are stills from the permanent installation located in the central atrium of terminal 1 at the international airport of tokyo-narita, accompanying by the illuminations of osaka takuro and satoshi hasegawa and revealing the sounds of the environment. every thirty minutes, the ceiling darkens and a short spectacle (4-minute) of sounds and spots floodlighting translucent mobiles floating in the space of the atrium takes place. the compositions are a mixture of musical sounds, voices and urban or marine soundscapes, which suggest displacements and voyages.

$13.01

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january 25th, 2008

threads:
japan
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
harsh-noise
beat-research
digital-musics
film-video

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 202 cd

“japanese avant-garde” compact disc

so takahashi - made in u.s.a.
koji asano - vs. calia
merzbow - lux automobile (krokodil rock mix)
haco - re:mosquito illusion
bisk - smooth-skinned woman
sachiko m - 2808200
multiphonic ensemble - electronic music box
otomo yoshihide - dt-2.01
aki onda - fish don't know it's raining
yoshio machida - afterimage
ground zero - live 1992
view masters - pachinko mandala 00
takashi miike - interview
shinya tsukamoto - interview

sub rosa press release...

japanese avant garde
sr202

featuring
otomo yoshihide
sachiko m
haco
merzbow
aki onda
yoshihiro hanno/ multiphonic ensemble
bisk
view masters
ground zero
yoshio machida
koji asano
so takahashi.

+ interviews from the movie directors
takashi miike
and shinya tsukamoto

+ liner notes by
david toop

dou/sei
as an introduction to this album here are some extracts from david toop's liner notes.

"most music in japan has little to recommend it; it is a sonic equivalent of those brutal concrete towers or the transitory chaos of multi-storey teen-fashion emporia in aoyama.

but a sonic underground thrives, creatively if not financially, and perhaps it should be compared with the shabby golden-gai drinking dens of shinjuku, faint reminders of a lost time when desire and transgression shared endless cups of sake with political and artistic radicalism...

...how is it possible to live within and react against an extremely regulated society, politically moribund, engulfed by consumerism, technological innovation, mediated images, a confusion of influences and traditions? agitation and stillness may seem to be opposing strategies, yet they converge at a certain point...

...surging deep beneath the noir turbulence of merzbow and so takahashi, the car crash ruins of otomo yoshihide and ground zero, the curated urban fragments of viewmaster, the technocratic complexity of bisk and yoshihiro hanno's multiphonic ensemble, the piercing intensity of sachiko m, the childlike placidity of aki onda, yoshio machida and haco, is a conflicting sense of clarity attained through struggle. out of turmoil, a stained purity is revealed.

listening to this alchemical transmutation, i think of fujieda baian, the central character of shotaro ikenami's historical novels. professional assassin and acupuncturist, baian kills to live, lives to heal. at the beginning of yasunari kawabata's novel, the sound of the mountain, ogata shingo hears an elusive sound, the faint rumble of the mountain at the rear of his house. "it was as if a demon had passed, making the mountain sound out." shingo shakes his head, thinking the disturbance might be a ringing in his ears. feeling fear, perhaps he hears the collapsing certainties of the future, our present, where everything is in flux."

$34.01

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april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
june 13th, 2011

threads:
1950s-electronic
1960s-electronic
1970s-electronic
1980s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
digital-musics

best of 2011 !!!

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 200 lp

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • second a-chronology 1936-2003” triple long playing record set

vladimir ussachevsky + otto luening - incantation for tape (2:39) 1963
luc ferrari - visage v (10:36) 1958-59
tod dockstader - aerial > song (12:56) 2002
johanna m. beyer - music of the spheres (6:01) 1938
morton subotnick - mandolin (7:02) 1962
daphne oram - four aspects (8:10) 1960
alan r. splet - space travel w/changing choral textures (4:02) 1983
robin rimbaud / scanner - emily (4:49) 2003
hugh davies / gentle fire - quintet (12:10) 1967-68
kim cascone - zephirum scan (4:50) 2002
meira asher + guy harries - torture - bodyparts (3:42) 2001
lasse steen / choose - purzuit of noize (5:37) 1994
woody mcbride - pulp (6:07) 1993
spk - slogun (6:15) 1979
yoshihiro hanno / multiphonic ensemble - on/off edit (9:12) 2001
sean booth + rob young / autechre - bronchus one.1 (6:04) 1991
david lee myers / arcane device - lathe (5:54) 1988
sun ra - black myth (8:32) 1970
don van vliet / captain beefheart - she’s too much for my mirror/ my human gets me blues (5:22) 1969
laibach - industrial ambients (9:57) 1980-82
percy grainger - free music #1 (for four theremins) (2:04) 1936

may 2010 release ; vinyl version of the second anthology (only this & the first volume have gotten the treatment thusfar ; the others remain cd-only) ...

it’s becoming apparent that this selection is intended as more of a personality-driven mix-cd (bearing the imprint of its compiler ; sub rosa’s guy-marc hinant) than an authoritative overview of electronic music trends over the last 70 odd years ... so we can relax and just enjoy, stop scratching our heads at the inclusion of otherwise questionable content (captain beefheart???) ... still a heroic act as many of the pieces included herein have yet to be converted to digital for mass-appreciation ...

very nicely done triple-gatefold with all of the credits printed in full on the four internal panels ...

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #2
second a-chronology 1936-2003

3xlp triple gatefold
srv200

the second volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant.

...

slow explorations of the past and the present ...

given the present system of production there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. there may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. over the past 40 years the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). yet behind them are many other names. who are they? second-raters? not necessarily. for we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist.

great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. the case of tod dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? his name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. but he influenced quite a few people - richard james quoted him, and others then referred to his work. some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. the same applies to many other composers. all such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth.

these historical axes

at the turn of the century there were efforts to find new sources of sound - a number of machines were exhibited, including thaddeus cahiel's telharmonium in 1887 and the dynamophone presented to the new york public in 1906 ; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. after a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of vladimir ussachevsky and otto luening in new york's columbia-princeton electronic music center. when audiences of the 50's and 60's first heard varèse, pousseur, stockhausen, berio, ussachevsky, yuasa, dockstader and mumma, what did they feel? perhaps a sort of break, an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of monteverdi's orfeo (in mantua, italy on 24 february 1607). they left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it.

$18.01

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april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
july 14th, 2003

threads:
1950s-electronic
1960s-electronic
1970s-electronic
1980s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
digital-musics

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 200 cd

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • second a-chronology 1936-2003” double compact disc set

vladimir ussachevsky + otto luening - incantation for tape (1963) 2:39
luc ferrari - visage v (1958-59) 10:36
tod dockstader - aerial > song (2002) 12:56
johanna m. beyer - music of the spheres (1938) 6:01
morton subotnick - mandolin (1962) 7:02
daphne oram - four aspects (1960) 8:10
robin rimbaud / scanner - emily (2003) 4:49
hugh davies - quintet (1967-68) 12:10
alan r. splet - space travel w/changing choral textures (1983) 4:02
kim cascone - zephirum scan (2002) 4:50
sean booth + rob young / autechre - bronchus one.1 (1991) 6:04
yoshihiro hanno / multiphonic ensemble - on/off edit (2001) 9:12
meira asher + guy harries - torture - bodyparts (2001) 3:42
lasse steen / choose - purzuit of noize (1994) 5:37
woody mcbride - pulp (1993) 6:07
david lee myers / arcane device - lathe (1988) 5:54
laibach - industrial ambients (1980-82) 9:57
spk - slogun (1979) 6:15
percy grainger - free music #1 (for four theremins) (1936) 2:04
don van vliet / captain beefheart - she’s too much for my mirror/ my human gets me blues (1969) 5:22

second volume of curiously-linked historic and contemporary electronics...

it’s becoming apparent that this selection is intended as more of a personality-driven mix-cd (bearing the imprint of its compiler; sub rosa’s guy-marc hinant) than an authoritative overview of electronic music trends over the last 70 odd years. so we can relax and just enjoy, stop scratching our heads at the inclusion of otherwise questionable content (captain beefheart???) ... still a heroic act as many of the pieces included herein have yet to be converted to digital for mass-appreciation. nice one ...

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music vol. 2 - second a-chronology 1936-2003
wladimir ussachevsky + otto luening - luc ferrari - tod dockstader - johanna m. beyer - morton subotnick - daphne oram - robin rimbaud - hugh davies - alan r. splet - kim cascone - autechre - yoshihiro hanno - meira asher + guy harries - woody mcbride - lasse steen - arcane devices - laibach - spk - percy grainger - sun ra - captain beefheart
digipack 2 cd + 30 pages booklet / sr200

slow explorations of the past and the present
given the present system of production there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. there may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. over the past 40 years the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). yet behind them are many other names. who are they? second-raters? not necessarily. for we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist. great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. the case of tod dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? his name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. but he influenced quite a few people - richard james quoted him, and others then referred to his work. some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. the same applies to many other composers. all such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth.

historical axes
at the turn of the century there were efforts to find new sources of sound - a number of machines were exhibited, including thaddeus cahiel's telharmonium in 1887 and the dynamophone presented to the new york public in 1906; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. after a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of wladimir ussachevsky and otto luening in new york's columbia-princeton electronic music center. when audiences of the 50's and 60's first heard varèse, pousseur, stockhausen, berio, ussachevsky, yuasa, dockstader and mumma, what did they feel? perhaps a sort of break, an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of monteverdi's orfeo (in mantua, italy on 24 february 1607). they left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it.

$14.51

back in stock as of
april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
july 14th, 2003

threads:
1970s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 199 cd

“4 parabolic mixes - live recordings” double compact disc set

henri pousseur - first parabolic mix (29:14)
main / robert hampson - second parabolic mix (27:38)
philip jeck - third parabolic mix (27:27)
oval / markus popp - fourth parabolic mix (34:10)

interesting set wherein 3 contemporary electronic musicians of differing backgrounds were asked to compose and perform new constructions of henri pousseur’s 1972 8-channel opus “8 études paraboliques” (itself having been issued in 2001 by sub rosa as a 4cd set intended for partial and complete simultaneous playback). along with a contemporary take by mr. pousseur himself...

sub rosa press release...

4 parabolic mixes
pousseur-main-jeck-oval
sr199
2cd

this double cd proposes 4 unpublished tracks based on "parabolic studies" -(limited edition 4cd box set by henri pousseur / sr174) first one by the pioneer of electronic music henri pousseur followed by robert hampson/ main, philip jeck, oval

transhisorics
in november 2001, we had just published henri pousseur's "8 parabolic studies" ("8 études paraboliques") in a box of 4 cds - these electronic pieces have been created in 1972 at the wdr studios in cologne. the idea was to ask other musicians, of different generations, to attempt a new mix on the basis of these eight studies. the first mix (and not re-mix) was a re-interpretation by henri pousseur himself – this laid the foundation stone of the edifice. contrary to the mixes carried out thirty years ago, these were made digitally. the second mix was robert hampson's - quite nervous of the master's reaction, who was present during the set. robert, who holds an exhaustive knowledge of electronic music from its origins and of all its aspects - even of the more obscure ones -gave a personal but faithful interpretation of pousseur's studies. another degree of alteration was highlighted by philip jeck, who created a massive and powerful set, adding sounds from other sources (which is totally allowed according to pousseur's original concept). and finally, oval - according to the process that is quintessential to his work, markus popp could only produce a piece far removed from its sources; since it is within sound itself that all sonorous source passes through the ovalprocess, thus becoming ovalmusic - that is, music having its very own properties. we already had an unstable timeline that spanned from the original to a radically different piece - engrossing intermediary stages of destructuring. it is precisely these stages that were reconstituted here.

$18.01

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april 26th, 2013

first in stock on
may 20th, 2003

threads:
modern-composition
digital-musics

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 192 cd

“experience de vol” triple compact disc set

kasper t. toeplitz - biel
david shea - chamber symphony number 2 (extract)
jerome combier - noirs
giovanni sollima - casanova
gerard hourbette - danses mecaniques
jean-luc fafchamps - t
jean-christopher feldhandler - elargissement de ciel
fausto romitelli - flowing down to slow
horatio radulescu - khufu’s serpent iv
gualtiero dazzi - ...en bordure d’espaces
jean-paul dessy -fable ineffable
atau tanaka - dscp
ryoji ikeda - opus 1

very interesting concept album pitting rio demi-gods art zoyd against some rather challenging contemporary classical repertoire (with a few analogue transcriptions of quite digital music thrown in for good measure).

sub rosa press release...

experience de vol
ryoji ikeda - atau tanaka - horatio radulescu - david shea - jean-luc fafchamps - jean-paul dessy - kasper t. toeplitz - jerome combier - giovanni sollima - gerard hourbette - jean-christophe feldhandler - fausto romitelli - gualtiero dazzi
performed by art zoyd & musiques nouvelles
sr192

an experience… unexpected
at last, we are happy that this vast enterprise is finally released. basically, it was a challenge : ask to 13 composers around the world to create a piece for ensemble musiques nouvelles – directed by jean-paul dessy (but founded by henri pousseur in 1962). from europa, usa or japan, try to explore the compositional frame of today's creators and not only in the well-known 'comtemporary scene' but to push further the boundary and discover the unexpected result of some of the greatest names of the today's electronic world.

art zoyd & ensemble musiques nouvelles
for the realisation of this big project, many forces were necessary : two regions between two countries - belgium and france - two ensembles - musiques nouvelles (20 musicians) and art zoyd (6 musicians) and their high-tech studios - and two years of work. the result is contained on a 3 cd box - 172 minutes of music - and a 40 pages booklet that explains you all.

new compositions and unpublished work
opus #1 by ryoji ikeda is the first piece that he even wrote for non-electronic instruments - and paradoxally one of his most accomplished work. atau tanaka 's composition is for chamber orchestra, theremin and infrared ! horatio radulescu, the founder of the spectral technique of composition is, for sure, one of the greatest composers alive, this is his last opus (#64). david shea is well-known by his many collaborations with sub rosa and tzadik. jean luc fafchamps has just published his second complete cd on sub rosa a few months ago, jean-paul dessy questions the mermaids's voices and kasper t. toeplitz organizes a glenn branca revival, jerome combier tries to impulse black light in music, giovanni sollima mixes baroque chamber orchestra and techno rhythm, gerard hourbette continues art zoyd's expressionist legend, jean-christophe feldhandler organizes a space in constant change, at the threhold of its widening, fausto romitelli opposes string quartet and a single mixer, and finally, gualtiero dazzi creates a tragic cinematographic space…

13 compositions - 13 unpublished works and 13 ways to combine electronic music and classical instruments.

$13.01

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 191 cd

“floating foundations vol.2” compact disc

disjecta - bad day for wasps (10:22)
david toop - tricyrtis latifolia (9:40)
scanner - weightless (8:51)
hardsleeper - ends > circle walks (10:29)
carl michael von hausswolff - with the flow against the current (10:10)

sub rosa press release...

floating foundations / vol. 2
disjecta :: mark clifford / david toop / scanner :: robin rimbaud / hard sleeper :: peter maybury / carl michael von hausswolff
sr191

continuing story this second volume marks a continuity and a change - a continuity because, like the first volume, 5 musicians wrote a 10 minutes electronic piece exclusively for the project. and a change because, this second attempt is more varied and explores other domains. the approach of mark clifford (ex-seefeel), for exemple, amends the deal - it's more immediate, less meditative. it was good to work with him again. we had already collaborated with him with his first band - seefeel (highly underestimated in our point of view), david toop gives us a brand new piece too including electronics and guitars (a good choice after his complete cd "37th floor at sunset" sr163). happy too to meet again robin rimbaud (after many collaborations and 3 complete cd since 1995). first try and first succes for hard spleeper aka the designer peter maybury (who just finishes the design of "our first electronic anthology" sr190. fine conclusive piece by cm von hausswolff (first collaboration after his complete cd "rays of beauty" sr88). all in all, the whole is more like a strong energy (the beginning) who little by little goes to a deep and intelligent drone.

disjecta : : mark clifford some great records for warp as disjecta, the founder of seefeel - their "succour" stays as a perfection of the electronica, give us here a complex and sampled work only based on his own guitar. one of the stronger piece ever written by him.

david toop avant guarde musician, brilliant journalist writer and sound curator. david toop is still for us (and not only for us i guess) a klandmark in the vivid music. to be noted an unpublished text written recently by him which complete the notion of 'floating foundation 2".

scanner : : robin rimbaud the active companion in our thoughts and in action for several years, now. after a break, it's already his first pearl for a new beginning.

hard sleeper : : peter maybury well knowned as designer and typograph, it's the first time that peter publishes a musical work on a label - if we except his book (including a cd) published by the famous "immigré" typography company.

carl michael von hausswolff in few words : he was here before many others - more involved now in art /sound installation around the world (venise, sydney, sao paolo…).

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 190 lp

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” triple long playing record set

luigi and antonio russolo - corale (1:57) 1921
walter ruttman - wochende (11:17) 1930
pierre schaeffer - cinq etudes de bruits: etude violette (3:18) 1948
henri pousseur - scambi (6:27) 1957
gordon mumma - the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (12:43) 1965
angus maclise tony conrad and john cale - trance #2 (5:07) 1965
philip jeck otomo yoshihide and martin tetreault - untitled #1 (6:06) 2000
konrad boehmer - aspekt (15:13) 1966
einsturzende neubauten - ragout: küchen rezpt von einsturzende neubauten (4:08) 1998
nam june paik - hommage a john cage (4:13) 1958-59
john cage - rozart mix (7:18) 1965
sonic youth - audience (6:00) 1983
survival research laboratories - october 24 1992 graz austria (6:11) 1992
edgard varèse - poeme electronique (4:40) 1957-58
iannis xenakis - concret ph (2:44) 1958
ryoji ikeda - one minute (1:00) 1997
paul d. miller aka dj spooky that subliminal kid - ftp > bundle / conduit 23 (8:07) 2001
pauline oliveros - a little noise in the system (moog system) (30:16) 1966

june 2009 release ; vinyl version, in a deluxe triple-gatefold, which reprints the epic liner notes of the cd edition in full ... needless to say, but it’s pretty great to have such canonic pieces as the russolo’s “chorale”, ruttman’s “wochende”, pousseur’s “scambi”, mumma’s “dresden interleaf”, boehmer’s “aspekt” (listen to the sound-sample for the opening blast ; just bonkers) on “god’s format” ...

normally i’m not one for conceptualized compilations bridging the old with the new (especially ones involving dj spooky), although i have to make something of an exception here as this was curated with a degree of loving care that discounts my own petty concepts of right & wrong...

no excerpts, just a few hours of seminal early electronic transmissions coupled with a few contemporary-era odes to those magmatic magnetic aktions. a really nice overview: futurism to ‘cinema pour l’oreille’ to musique concrète to live electronics ... all over the first 5 tracks alone.

some of this material is available elsewhere but ... so what. it flows nicely, providing a listening experience akin to a finely executed dj mix. one of the better avenues to get your kid brother hooked on experimental electronic music’s many flowering pastures ...

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an anthology of noise & electronic music #1
first a-chronology 1921-2001

srv190
3xlp

the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant.

an unpublished history

this is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes. this volume begins in the 1920s, with the russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn - varèse, cage, schaeffer, xenakis, the great pioneers - the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). some pieces on these cds are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. in fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished.

...

the gathering of eclectic noise makers

whereas composers like stockhausen, berio or pousseur had come from serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as boehmer or oliveros composed right away on electronic bases; there were those who invented new methods, like schaeffer and concrete music, others were outsiders, revolutionaries or visionaries like xenakis or cage, without forgetting the branch of sound derived from dada, the complex forms of free jazz, john coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, rock of the alternative, psychedelic and industrial varieties, the german wave of the 1970s, the last generation of electronic musicians from the beginning or middle of the 1990s, dj, reinventors of drones, painters or sculptors using sound, and process or software creators. the noise goes on ...

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 190 cd

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” double compact disc set

luigi and antonio russolo - corale (1921) 1:57
walter ruttman - wochende (1930) 11:17
pierre schaeffer - cinq etudes de bruits: etude violette (1948) 3:18
henri pousseur - scambi (1957) 6:27
gordon mumma - the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (1965) 12:43
angus maclise tony conrad and john cale - trance #2 (1965) 5:07
philip jeck otomo yoshihide and martin tetreault - untitled #1 (2000) 6:06
survival research laboratories - october 24 1992 graz austria (1992) 6:11
einsturzende neubauten - ragout: küchen rezpt von einsturzende neubauten (1998) 4:08
konrad boehmer - aspekt (1966) 15:13
nam june paik - hommage a john cage (1958-59) 4:13
john cage - rozart mix (1965) 7:18
sonic youth - audience (1983) 6:00
edgard varèse - poeme electronique (1957-58) 4:40
paul d. miller aka dj spooky that subliminal kid - ftp > bundle / conduit 23 (2001) 8:07
pauline oliveros - a little noise in the system (moog system) (1966) 30:16
ryoji ikeda - one minute (1997) 1:00

... normally i’m not one for conceptualized compilations bridging the old with the new (especially ones involving dj spooky). have to make something of an exception here as this was curated with a degree of loving care that discounts my petty concepts of right & wrong. no excerpts, just a few hours of seminal early electronic transmissions coupled with a few contemporary-era odes to those magmatic magnetic aktions. a really nice overview: futurism to ‘cinema pour l’oreille’ to musique concrète to live electronics ... all over the first 5 tracks alone.

some of this material is available elsewhere but ... so what. it flows nicely, providing a listening experience akin to a finely executed dj mix. one of the better avenues to get your kid brother hooked on experimental electronic music’s many flowering pastures ...

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #1first a-chronology 1921-2001srv190 3xlp / out of stocksr190 2xcd digipack + 52 pages booklet / availablesr190 / 14,00€the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant.an unpublished historythis is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes. this volume begins in the 1920s, with the russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn - varèse, cage, schaeffer, xenakis, the great pioneers - the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). some pieces on these cds are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. in fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished.the gathering of eclectic noise makerswhereas composers like stockhausen, berio or pousseur had come from serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as boehmer or oliveros composed right away on electronic bases; there were those who invented new methods, like schaeffer and concrete music, others were outsiders, revolutionaries or visionaries like xenakis or cage, without forgetting the branch of sound derived from dada, the complex forms of free jazz, john coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, rock of the alternative, psychedelic and industrial varieties, the german wave of the 1970s, the last generation of electronic musicians from the beginning or middle of the 1990s, dj, reinventors of drones, painters or sculptors using sound, and process or software creators. the noise goes on...luigi russolo & antonio russolofeaturesluigi & antonio russolojohn cagesonic youtheinsturzende neubautenwalter ruttmannpierre schaefferiannis xenakispaul d miller/dj spookygordon mummaangus maclise/tony conrad/john calephilip jeck/otomo yoshihide/martin tetraultsurvival research laboratories/mark paulinekonrad boehmernam june paikhenri pousseuredgard varesepauline oliverosryoji ikedatrack listing 2cd - 3lp / 18 tracks01 luigi russolo & antonio russolo corale 1:57 / 192102 walter ruttmann wochende 11:17 / 193003 pierre schaeffer cinq études de bruits: étude violette 3:18 / 194804 henri pousseur scambi 6:27 / 195705 gordon mumma the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 12:43 / 196506 angus maclise, tony conrad & john cale trance #2 5:07 / 196507 philip jeck, otomo yoshihide & martin tétreault untitled #1 6:06 / 200008 survival research laboratories october 24, 1992 graz, austria 6:11 / 199209 einstürzende neubauten ragout: küchen rezept von einstürzende neubauten 4:08 / 199810 konrad boehmer aspekt 15:13 / 196611 nam june paik hommage à john cage 4:13 / 195812 john cage rozart mix 7:18 / 196513 sonic youth audience 6:00 / 198314 edgard varèse poème électronique 8:00 / 195815 iannis xenakis concret ph 4:40 / 195816 dj spooky that subliminal kid ftp > bundle / conduit 23 8:07 / 200117 pauline oliveros a little noise in the system (moog system) 30:16 / 196618 ryoji ikeda one minute 1:00 / 1997

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 188 cd

tone rec “demo pack demoli” compact disc

sprang capel (4:06)
giroflex (4:42)
hi pie (2:33)
trend (3:49)
to rococo rot (to rococo rot mix) (5:09)
dat politics (dat politics mix) (5:32)
dat politics (dat politics mix) (2:48)
fennesz (fennesz mix) (3:43)

... aka dat politics, in their pre-dat politics post-rock guise ...

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demo pack demoli
tone rec
sr188

remixes by
to rococo rot
christian fennesz
das politics

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best of 2008 !!!

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 185 cd

pauline oliveros “four electronic pieces • 1959-1966” compact disc

mnemonics iii (17:29) 1965
v of iv (16:28) 1966
time perspectives (19:37) 1959
once again / buchla piece (19:21) 1966

december 2008 release ; this collection of otherwise unavailable early electronic & synthesizer pieces by pauline oliveros was slated for release around 2005 or so ; glad it’s finally hitting the streets !!!

starting with “mnemonics iii,” we’re led into a maze of heterodyning upper-register buchla difference-tone fizz & tape-echo, constantly swirling & rarely centering in on a single tonality ... the gate-pulse of “v of iv” starts with machine-shop choppiness before a chattering wall of synthesized punctuations build in intensity, getting denser & denser until the piece’s climax ...

“time perspectives” is closer to a traditional musique concrète outing, sparsely populated with voice, piano, and bell sounds bathed in a rich tape-hiss ... then last but certainly not least, the entirely harsh synth-blast of “once again,” despite being laid to tape back in 1966, rivals if not supercedes many of today’s synth-noise in its sheer relentless fury ...

along with “electronic works” disc, this is the pauline oliveros cd to pick up. highly recommended !!!

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four electronic pieces 1959-1966
pauline oliveros
sr185

noise before breathing

pauline oliveros is more than ever an important american composer. born in houston, texas on may 30, 1932, the music she produces today is close to the breath of life, with, notably, her pieces for accordion played by herself, the creation of the deep listening center, her approach to improvisation, and her numerous and varied collaborations with, among others, john cage, morton subotnick, terry riley, sonic youth, erold, and andrew deutsch ...

what we wish to show here, is her early and definitive contribution to the tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties - her systematic exploration of electronic sounds, which was fundamental to this period. if mnemonics prefigures her meditative and breathing pieces, v of iv structures sound as noise, time perspectives are her first variations on silence, while once again develops a wild energy, that out-strips itself, a frenzy the likes of which is hard to find - whether in its day or ours.

early electronic works

my work with electronic music began in 1959. my first tape piece was an ambitious four channel work called time perspectives. the piece was made by recording small sounds from objects resonated on a wooden wall and changing the tape speed. i used cardboard tubes as filters by inserting the mic into the tube and recording sources through the tubes. i used my bath tub as a reverberation chamber. sections of the piece were improvised and then subjected to speed changes (the recorder had two fixed speeds 7 and 1/2 ips, 3 and 3/4 ips and hand wound variable speed). when the san francisco tape music center was established together with ramon sender and morton subotnik there was a pool of equipment to use and i began to work with electronic sound. rather than cut and splice small pieces of tape together to make a composition i chose to work in real time. i used two tape machines with the tape running across both machines to make a delay system. i used two or more oscillators at high frequencies to produce difference tones. these tones would also interact with the bias frequencies of the tape recorders. i would play the oscillators into the tape recorders improvising my way through the piece. my system of composing in this manner was my own invention.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 182 cd

angus maclise “the cloud doctrine” double compact disc set

tunnel music #1 (ca. 1965) 02:51
tunnel music #2 (ca. 1965) 04:48
tunnel music #3 (ca. 1965) 03:05
the first subtle cabinet (1963) 26:04
description of a mandala (1976) 09:49
thunder cut (1968) 32:28
chumlum (1963) 04:20
trance #1 (unknown) 05:23
trance #2 (unknown) 04:03
two speed trance (unknown) 05:07
four speed trance (1965) 03:18
shortwave radio (1969) 02:53
electronic mix for ‘expanded cinema’ (1965) 27:49
organ & drum (1970) 04:00
universal solar calendar (unknown) 19:41
tambura drone + sine wave generator (1968) 03:07

back in stock, lower price. a double cd collection sifted from the motherlode of archive of tapes (51 in all) as discovered in the closet of don snyder 2 years after maclise’s death by gerard malanga. pretty amazing stuff, especially given what little was known about mr. maclise until archive issues starting popping up a few years ago on quakebasket.

this set runs the gamut from pure electronic pieces to ensemble & solo trances & drones (with angus & hetty, tony & beverly conrad, john cale, piero heliczer, etc...), soundtracks to experimental films, and so on. eye & ear opening to say the least...

booklet contains a complete maclise chronology and liners by malanga. fan-tastic...

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 178 cd

nam june paik “works 58-79” compact disc

prepared piano for merce cunningham - 1977 - 28’33
hommage à john cage - 1958.59 - 4’10
simple - 1961 - 0’21
duett paik/takis - 1979 - 25’46
etude for pianoforte - 1959.60 - 2’49

brilliant collection of early audio-work from the pioneering multimedia artist. essential listening ...

sub rosa press release...

these three audio recordings were uncovered in 1999, while going through more than two thousand undocumented or uncatalogued film, video and audio tapes in nam june paik’s mercer street loft, preparing for the artist’s exhibition at the solomon r. guggenheim museum, new york. these tapes were among the original audio playback materials for paik’s legendary performances, held in germany after meeting john cage at the 1958 international summer course for new music in darmstadt. while the audio tapes may arguably be looked at as works in themselves, it is important to note that they were presented along with theatrical and often violent actions, as described in calvin tomkins article. the tapes are hand-spliced collaged. sound elements include a prepared piano, paik screaming, a baby crying, a sample of stravinsky’s petruschka. art shiffrin in new york performed the physical restoration, hand cleaning the tapes and repairing splices. stephen vitiello was responsible for overseeing the research and the restoration.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 170 cd

gerard malanga “up from the archives” compact disc

gerard malanga - to the young model, name unknown (1:21)
iggy pop - untitled (4:46)
gerard malanga - the recording of couch (4:41)
angus maclise - cloud asylum (1:56)
gerard malanga - the recording of couch (second part) (4:45)
peter hartman - spontaneous classical piano routine (4:44)
willard maas - his image in the snow (1:53)
gerard malanga + dj olive - the 3rd avenue el (3:18)
gerard malanga - the life and death of a photograph (6:28)
gerard malanga + 48 cameras - leaving new york (4:37)
charles henri ford - 3 haiku (0:58)
paradise now - the silk process [the unknown girl] (2:46)
gerard malanga + erwan szabo* - the young mod (3:28)
gerard malanga + william burroughs* - william burroughs + gerard malanga (5:02)
thurston moore - untitled (5:49)

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up from the archives
gerard malanga
sr170

gerard malanga: his legacy
new york poet, photograph, performer with the velvet underground, gerard malanga, was andy warhol' s close friend and his first assistant in the golden age of the 60' factory (paintings: red jackie, brillo box, mao, flowers... all the films - including sleep, empire, chelsea girls... - the velvet underground era...what we present here, is really his unique legacy.

from andy warhol to william burroughs...
first hand documents from the pesonal archives of malanga - it contains rare documents with voices of andy warhol, allen ginsberg, the american poet gregory corso, jack kérouac, willard maas ... some come from unknown documents recorded by malanga himself during the shooting of warhol 's films...

other great document: gerard malanga, poetry reading at leo castelli gallery, l964... for the first exhibition of warhol s'famous "flowers"

all begin with a conversation between william burroughs and malanga, about "dreams"...

unpublished music for gerard
this record contains too unpublished music by angus mclise (... velvet underground before velvet underground and la monte young orchestra with john cale and tony conrad) and new pieces by iggy pop and thurston moore (sonic youth). it ends with gerard and dj olive, live at the "cooler" of new york, last year... the loop is looped.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 163 cd

david toop “37th floor at sunset: music for mondophrenentic” compact disc

21st floor discotheque at 4 a.m. (1:44)
dream cargoes (8:21)
nocturnal service shaft (8:55)
empty mall (1:00)
automatic security procedures (2:40)
disposal chute inoperative (7:48)
37th floor at sunset (5:11)
brand new (2:22)
virtual pet #1 (0:28)
air-con function (5:47)
ventilation shaft (1:16)
watchtower data (7:49)
connection not enabled (0:59)

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37th floor at sunset: music for mondophrenentic
david toop
sr163

the invitation to create music for the cd-rom installation - mondophrenetic - came from the belgian team of producer rony vissers, artist/photographer els opsomer and writer/theorist herman asselberghs. loosely inspired by jean-luc godard's 1967 film, deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle, the installation takes els opsomer's photographs of high rise apartment blocks, shot in many different countries, as the focal point of explorations of globalism at the end of the 20th century, the beginning of the 21st century.

creating a soundtrack for mondophrenentic raised a number of new challenges for me. the first of these was focussed on the issue of non-linearity. music composed for a multi-media setting such as mondophrenetic relinquishes control. questions as to when it is used or in what context are decisions governed in the first instance by the programmer and designers, then ultimately by the user, whoever he or she may be. different pieces of music may appear in unforeseen juxtapositions, be disrupted, or may be heard in unpredictable visual and textual contexts as the user navigates. such outcomes have to be accepted and, to some extent, anticipated by the composer and built into the nature of the music. the second challenge was to create a kind of soundtrack that was not so far forward to demand attention as music in its own right, yet not so far in the background to be peripheral sound design. i wanted to create atmospheres suggestive of buildings as living organisms, creatures with nervous systems, without reducing the soundtrack to a catalogue of sound effects.

in his novel, highrise, j.g. ballard described the subtle relationship of an apartment block's nervous system to the disintegrating ecology of the mini-society of its inhabitants. apartment blocks look much the same, whether in china or the suburbs of paris, yet the lives within them are very different. the sounds of lift shafts, ventilation and heating systems, the murmurs of human activity, radio and television, have a universality that becomes specific only in the finest details, a moment in time at the right place, maybe through the walls of the 37th floor at sunset. i also wanted to create music that suggested globalism and the absorption of global cultures into an environment of signs, a kind of easy listening or aetherial mix that is detached from any recognisable source other than the perpetual movement of hybridised culture in the 21st century. information is a kind of architecture, though like music, its walls are intangible.

david toop june 2000

...

david toop is a musician, composer, writer and sound curator. he has published three books: rap attack (now in its third edition), ocean of sound, and exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual american books awards for 2000). he has also released five solo albums since 1995 - screen ceremonies, pink noir, spirit world, museum of fruit and hot pants idol - and curated five cd compilations for virgin records - ocean of sound, crooning on venus, sugar & poison, booming on pluto and guitars on mars.

in 1998 he composed the soundtrack for acqua matrix, the outdoor spectacular that closed every night of lisbon expo '98 from may until september. he has recorded shamanistic ceremonies in amazonas and worked with musicians including brian eno, john zorn, prince far i, jon hassell, derek bailey, talvin singh, evan parker, max eastley, scanner, ivor cutler and witchman. as a critic he has written for many publications, including the wire, the face, the times, the sunday times, the observer, arena, vogue, spin, gq, bookforum, pulse, urb and the village voice.

he has curated sonic boom, an exhibition of sound art showing at the hayward gallery, london, from april to june, 2000. other projects currently in progress include the composition of a soundtrack for mondophrenentic (cd to be released by sub rosa, august 2000), a cd-rom installation created in belgium, and 'needle in the groove', a collaborative album with novelist jeff noon, released on scanner's sulphur label in may 2000. in january 2000 he exhibited the sound installation 'dreaming of inscription on skin' with max eastley at icc in tokyo. he is currently a visiting research fellow at the london media school.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 120 cd

“water & architecture” compact disc

directions - encode
atom heart - space is sanity
bisk - circular sound
bisk - sewing thread
bisk - vague recollection
seefeel - is it now?
seefeel - ripley
aer - radio siberia
aer - take off your clothes
aer - requiem for a globe

sub rosa was known to me for years as ‘that belgian label that did all of those loosely themed post-rock compilations’ & split guitar discs’ (this was before their contemporary makeover as kunst-welt darlings). there really were a lot of them back in the 90s, mostly average, some good, a couple of great ones.

here’s one... a ten track collection of music about... water & architecture i’d assume. beautiful jon wozencroft photography graces the object (could very well be a touch title, aesthetically, were it not for the music itself).

all tracks are exclusive, so seefeel completists (like me) need it. slightly more ‘table-music’ than you’d expect from the lineup (even uwe’s track is fairly subdued for him). but worthy...

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water & architecture
atom heart - seefeel - bisk - directions (bundy k. brown & doug scharin) - aer
sr120

nature, cities, water, concrete... water eating rocks, shores. cities eating landscapes, life. those two elements are interconnected, though fighting. in between there are humans, needing both elements to survive. a shelter to protect the close to 70% of water a body is made of.what is the connection, the dialogue, the potential of construction/destruction? what is the impact of architecture on water, what is its influence on modern cities?

featuring unreleased material from:

directions
post-rock with electronica flavours,featuring bundy k. brown (tortoise,bastro,gastr del sol...) and doug sharin (june of 44, him, rex...) recorded in tortoise studio, chicago.

seefeel
too pure, warp... seefeel was some unique act in the pop-electronica scene. somewhere in between folk-dub-intelligent electro. these two tracks are mixing natural rhythms, minimal electronica...

atom heart
it was the first track released by atom tm in his new studio located in santiago. it starts assome german techno groove to end into some electro-'limbo'. amazing.

bisk
the osaka post drum'n' bass wizard "desturcturer", naohiro fujikawa, in a three piece suite of sounds, strange, odd, bisk...

aer (alpha echo romeo)
aka jon wozencroft, british designer, co-founder of the touch label composer these tracks with sounds collected worldwide. architectural experimentation.

including 29 notes on water & architecture by guy-marc hinant. photos and design by jon wozencroft.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 115 cd

“inuit • 55 historical recordings / traditional music from greenland 1905-1987” compact disc

hendrik singerdât - entertaining song (2:51)
lauritz ningâvan - duel-song (3:07)
vilhelm kûitse - uaajeerneq-song (3:19)
k'iwingatâk' - duel-song (1:06)
ajukutôk' - kayak-song (1:53)
rasmus maratse - uaajeerneq-song (2:02)
alek'âjik - entertaining song (1:55)
kunnak - uaajeerneq-song (0:26)
olga maratse - lullaby (0:45)
k'iwingatâk' - charm-song (1:26)
karla mathiasen - charm-songs (0:52)
sîne kûitse andersen & malene andersen - singing game (0:40)
autdlârutâ - duel-song (1:02)
therkel petersen - qivittoq-song (0:14)
jakob dorph - qivittoq-song (4:15)
karen hansen - mournful song (1:01)
juliane mouritzen - qivittoq-song (4:32)
juliane mouritzen - mournful song (2:21)
juliane mouritzen - qivittoq-song (2:40)
elisabeth tittusen - teasing-song (0:59)
henrik lund - ukuarlivarisaa (0:35)
judithe barcellaisen - epic lyric song (0:32)
kanape - entertaining song (0:34)
unknown artist - traditional song (0:26)
simion jeremiassen - entertaining song (0:49)
iletdluk - entertaining song (0:46)
unknown artist - traditional song (0:54)
amalusevik & najarto - entertaining song (0:50)
nukârak' (poul hansen) - song in a story (1:04)
amaunalik k'âvigak' - song in a fable (0:42)
sofie eipe - charm song (0:17)
ajako mitek' - entertaining drum-song (0:36)
inûtek' napa - tiguak's song (1:09)
taitsianguak' k'aerngâk' - inûtek's song (1:40)
navssâpaluk sadorana - entertaining drum-song (1:02)
ungahak' - her own song (1:23)
inûtek' napa - invocation song (0:33)
inûtek' napa - kajok's song (1:20)
pualorsuak' - variation of kajok's song (2:32)
ihrè (or eri) - his own song (1:31)
navassâpaluk sadorana - ihrè's song (0:30)
inûterssuak' uvdloriak' - sivso' song (1:19)
k'iajuk - entertaining song (1:36)
kaiyayyuk - his own song (2:06)
frank kellogok' - enetrtaining song (2:21)
kûtsîkitsok' odâk' - teasing-song (0:25)
kigutikak' tunek' - song in a myth (1:17)
imîna imîna - his own song (3:24)
imîna imîna - song of a shamen (1:05)
inûterssuak' uvdloriak' - tornge's song (0:40)
kigutikak' tunek' - entertaining song (1:13)
inûterssuak' uvdloriak' - pualorssuak's song (2:04)
k'umangâpik - story in a song (0:42)
peter pitseolak - entertaining song (0:51)
aisake - entertaining song (0:29)

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inuit - 55 historical recordings / traditional music from greenland 1905-1987
sr115

this record is surely unique - published a few years ago only in greenland by ulo, we took the decision to enlarge the distribution of this tribute to traditions and roots of the inuit culture.

this is more than an hour of ultra-rare documents, the testimony of a century of inuits recordings ! as a guide through this abundant material, we included the complete notes from the original booklet... notes, comments and photos. an helpful 24 pages complement not only for purists !

time machine

voices recorded almost hundred years ago in greenland on wax glader cylinder … for today, hearing a lost shamanic story, a duel-song, a mournful melody… this record presents an unique collection of drumdance and songs - 55 historical recordings of traditional greenlandic music recorded between 1905 (by the british ethnologist william thalbitzer) to 1987 and collected by the danish ethnomusicologist michael hauser. this is - beyond the document in itself - a way to be lost in time and space.

hope, happiness, mourning… humanity is right there.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 110 cd

“double articulation: another plateau” compact disc

gilles deleuze - dans les plis de la vague
david shea - remix scanner (phased lines)
scanner - remix mouse on mars (subnubus: a liminal approach)
mouse on mars - remix main oval scanner david shea mouse on mars gilles deleuze tobias hazan (die pegel gesetzt)
tobias hazan - remix main (occlusion double bind perspectives)
main - remix oval (sdii audio template)
oval - remix oval (sdii audio template)

see above/below re: sub rosa’s compilation plan. this one, i believe, was the remix ‘answer’ to the ‘folds & rhizomes’ comp (above/below). sub rosa’s fascination with gilles deleuze predates the whole achim szepanski mille-plateaux empire by a few years (at this point force inc. was just your average german techno powerhouse). some very sorted mixes herein, esp. the main stuff. mouse on mars’ collage of all elements takes the cake though...

sub rosa press release...

double articulation : another plateau
gilles deleuze / mouse on mars / scanner / oval / main / david shea / tobias hazan
sr110

after having conceived 'folds and rhizomes', the very first time we listened to it, we had the idea of re-creating another plateau - another little quantum sculpture called a cd - sending out lines of departure in order to remodel the material as it appeared to us then elsewhere and in different fashion.

we asked the participants to remix among themselves and what emerged was more engaging than anything we had imagined - oval remixing himself, mouse on mars remixing the whole... the notion of remix is fascinating in itself in that it offers a new vision - never definitive - of what is, a new space where two styles interpenetrate, two ways of doing things which, instead of cancelling each other out, reinforce each other, resulting at best in - something else.

gilles deleuze french philosopher,
born in paris1925-1995.

some titles: a thousand plateaux, kafka, l'anti-oedipe.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 087 cd

the master musicians of joujouka “joujouka black eyes” compact disc

joujouka black eyes

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joujouka black eyes
the master musicians of joujouka
sr87

the master musicians of joujouka
the master musicians of joujouka come from the rif mountains of morocco. they are one of the best sufi music players of the world. frank rynne & joe ambrose were there for months. the result is two unique records with the real thing. this first is something to do with the day-by-day life - a very intimist mood. the second - released in 1996 will be about the (almost pagan) ritual of boujeloud.

brahim jones (very stoned)
here - the musicians play a lot on small bamboo flutes and finger tap their drums for practice, for pleasure and to relax after food. this is very a different sound from the one usually expected from joujouka. all the circular breathing techniques, drum and melody patterns are used but the sound is trance, mellow, and incredibly uplifting. one of the great moment is an incredible track called brahim jones (very stoned) - written by their master of ceremonies hamri in the praise of the last coming of brian jones...

a tale by joe ambrose
“once a strange boy from the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world visited joujouka. he proved to be the catalyst for the ongoing interest in the music of the village. hamri brought him there because he hoped something positive and serious would come of it for the master musicians and for the village.those adventures lead to the album “brian jones presents the pipes of pan at joujouka”. the album is lasting testimony to a mass collaboration between a motley crew of delinquent artists: bowles, burroughs, hamri, gysin, jones, and the individual musicians of joujouka. the rock remains. the music of joujouka is still one of the most liberating of musics, a secret message to the soul at a time when the soul has been effectively discredited by conservative forces. the time for the music of joujouka has assuredly arrived.”

"this is the purest music i've never heard and maybe the funkiest too!" (frank rynne)

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 057 cd

marcel duchamp “the creative act” compact disc

the creative act (1957) 7.28
some text from à l’infinitif (1912-20) 4.02
erratum musical 1.40
an interview (1959) 11.04
an interview (1959) 21.24
erratum musical 1.38

collection of speeches, papers, and interviews with the great hoch-kunst ikon with short musical interludes from duchamp’s instruction-set “erratum musical”. booklet reprints interview fragments in english and french. die-hards unite ...

sub rosa press release...

the creative act
marcel duchamp
sr57

marcel duchamp
edited by marc dachy, this first cd devoted exclusively to marcel duchamp brings some 50' of very rare documents, all of which are crucial not only in to understand duchamp 's work bur also to gasp the rebellious, unconventional, anticonformist spirit that has always been there but in the zurich of 1919 took the absurd name of dada. including 12 pages booklet with an unpublished interview. a luminous texte that set the listener free.

lectures, interviews & music

the creative act - lecture in houson, texas, april 1957
some texts from a l'infinitif (1912-20) - lecture in new york, shortly before his death.
erratum musical (la mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même) performed by jean-luc fafchamps (pedal harmonium). long before john cage, the first aleatory composition and the only piece which is never twice the same.
an interview by george heard hamilton - recorded in new york in 1959.
an interview by richard hamilton - recorded in london in the same year.
erratum musical (a score for 3 voices) - the only score by marcel duchamp written for his two sisters and himself. performed by marianne pousseur, lucy grauman and jean-luc plouvier.

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 040 cd

charles hayward “switch on war” compact disc

crying shame (11:18)
strong-arm dead-line (10:47)
pinpoint (11:31)
sweetheart (13:51)
never before (12:39)

live set by this heat drummer/vocalist charles hayward, recorded at the morgue, lewisham academy of music, london february 23, 1991.

sub rosa press release...

switch on war
charles hayward
sr40

13 years later, post-gulf war 2 and the situation seems even worse, more far reaching, the stalemate re-configured and therefore more convenient for certain interests, the hypocrisy of our politicians and "free" media even more shameless and blatant, what is really happening even less clear and yet staring us in the face.

perhaps now is as good a time as any to listen again.

music for the armchair theatre of war. a unique and entertaining souvenir for you to treasure and keep

'switch on war' a dream state synthesis of nights watching live tv coverage of the 1st gulf war, the reduction of colours to an electron midnight blue, the long periods of nothing really happening, the contrasting landscapes, (the desert, the city at night, the newsroom), the sudden hurtling through space, through a doorway, a camera on the nose of a missile, the bearing of silent witness slowly turning into complicity and mute acquiescence. at the back of the mind the thought that all this would soon be reduced to snapshot memories, archive, newsreel, history.

originally devised as a performance for the club integral, in south london, at the height of the military activity, 'switch on war' was a harsh and brutal response to the media coverage of the conflict informed by a grotesque and disconcerting anti-music aesthetic heavily influenced by the disorientating, overloaded sound world of space invaders arcades.

the cd version was recorded binaurally some weeks later, live in a disused morgue, as the war came to its stalemate close. by this time the anger had a bleak streak of sadness, a distorted expressionist requiem.

this cd had the life expectancy of a magazine article or some such, no more than a year and it would be archive, a mere souvenir.

charles hayward

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subliminal sounds (sweden) #sub 081 lp

attilio mineo “man in space with sounds” long playing record

welcome to tomorrow (3:06)
gayway to heaven (2:41)
soaring science (3:33)
mile-a-minute monorail (1:38)
around the world (3:01)
century 21 (2:06)
man in art (3:45)
the queen city (2:29)
man seeks the future (3:23)
boeing spacearium (3:29)
science of tomorrow (2:54)
space age world's fair (0:55)

april 2011 release ; deluxe (deluxe !!!) vinyl issue of this curio from the tail-end of the “atomic age” :: attilio mineo’s exotica-laden soundtrack to “the bubbleator”, a ride at the 1962 seattle world’s fair, about which ::

the bubbleator was washington state's official exhibit in the coliseum, which housed a 'world of tomorrow' exhibit. a 150-passenger spherical clear plastic elevator, the bubbleator moved 2.5 million people through displays promising an easier life ahead. the operator wore a silver shiny space suit right out of a buck rogers comic strip and the music of man in space with sounds was being played through the sound system.

... nice mix of “modern” tonalities performed by a chamber ensemble with crude zap-bleep electronic fx & mountains of tape-echo on everything ; not far from paul boisselet’s contemporaneous musique concrète work (spec. “le robot” and/or “symphonie jaune”)

subliminal sounds press release...

attilio mineo: man in space with sounds (sub-081-lp)

recorded in 1951 but only released in conjunction with the 1962 seattle world's fair as the musical accompaniment to the bubbelator, a transparent, spherical elevator that carried as many as 150 passengers, attilio mineo's man in space with sounds remains one of the most foreboding and complex records in the cosmic exotica canon.

a dark, dissonant exploration of interstellar travel rooted in the avant-garde ethos of cage and stockhausen, this is music that's alien not only in its presentation but also in its orientation, fusing traditional instrumentation and sound effects to the point that one becomes indistinguishable from the other. electronic elements pulse, hum, and sputter their way to complete domination of mineo's sonic palette, depicting a bleak, sterile future where mankind gives way to machinery.

man in space with sounds is one of those legendary lps. a rare souvenir of the 1962 seattle world’s fair, this music served as the soundtrack to a ride called the bubbleator, which transported fair visitors through an overview of the future, a technological utopia where science and space travel promised solutions to all of humanity’s plights. needless to say, that future never arrived and this music (actually recorded in the early 1950s) still sounds as futuristic today as it must have back then.

the all-original compositions fall somewhere between nervous philip glass and 1950s sci-fi movie music, arranged with string orchestra in a sometimes rhythmic, polyrhythmic, or merely ambient cloud of odd electronic space noises. despite its intended technological optimism, the music is quite heavy and menacing, and the future ultimately feels pretty scary. regardless, this recording proves attilio mineo to have been an unbelievably progressive and underappreciated composer and arranger.

the amazing aural and visual content of this endearing package transcend everything. a rare, sought-after gem made accessible as a facsimile, with added bonus photos, in a limited pressing of 500 copies. packaged for collectors by collectors.

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subliminal sounds (sweden) #sub 023 lp

peter grudzien “the unicorn • the garden of love” double long playing record set

innocents (0:51)
the unicorn (3:46)
white trash hillbilly trick (2:59)
queen of all the blue-eyed (2:50)
private battle (2:58)
adagio (0:44)
broken bottle-glass sidewalks (1:55)
hear the trumpet call (3:42)
satan’s horn (0:25)
kentucky candy (8:36)
the lost world (2:27)
what have i done (2:25)
redemption and prayer (3:35)
return of the unicorn (2:39)
innocents ii (0:30)
new york town (2:18)
the garden of love (2:09)
alone amongst the crowd (2:58)
i don’t complain (3:04)
dark as a dungeon (3:49)
black mountain rag (1:51)
your every wish is my command (1:44)
kiss me another (3:13)
the bills (1:31)
pink and yellow haze (5:55)
echoing footsteps (2:23)
stonewall (2:18)
the garden of love pt 2 (2:52)

... brought in a few copies of this deluxe reproduction of outsider/weirdo peter grudzien’s 1974 holy grail monster raer private boner ; one of the very few “real people” personal-universe slices that’s worth all the whispering ...

swedish gatefold double-lp also includes the compilation “garden of love” ...

subliminal sounds press release...

peter grudzien: the unicorn + the garden of love 2 x lp (sublp23)

first time exact vinyl reissue of this rare, legendary and highly praised urban hillbilly one-man-band “outsider artist” lp from 1974. the “first psychedelic country concept” album features bluegrass mountain music americana from the twilight zone mixed with tape effects, musique concrete, fuzz guitar, surreal lyrics imagery and themes from religion, death, sex and other timely concerns.

also included is a bonus lp record, “the garden of love”, with some truly amazing and haunting unreleased material spanning the years 1950s-70s. the garden of love lp includes, amongst others, a song about wandering around in the desert eating peyote.

all the music has been carefully transferred from the master tapes and is a facsimile of the original album (previous cd only reissues contained altered mixings). read more about peter grudzien in the incredibly strange music - and songs in the key of z books. this release features a gatefold sleeve with the original “the unicorn” artwork + loads of photos and liner notes. gatefold lp sleeve.

limited edition of 500 copies only.

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