Browse by Label: SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)

Artist:	BUDD/GAVIN BRYARS/JON HASSELL, HAROLD
Title:	Myths 3: La Nouvelle Serenite
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 005CD

This is a reissue of the third volume in this early Sub Rosa compilation series, originally released in 1987. Features long tracks from Jon Hassell (duo with J.A. Deane, from 1985), never released since; Harold Budd (duo with Eugen Bowen, from 1983) in the mood of "The Serpent in Quicksilver" (with a splendid steel guitar); Gavin Bryars (duo with Andrew Thomson, from 1987); an unpublished sketch for two pianos called "Sketch For Sub Rosa" (later published on ECM with a chamber ensemble); and an excerpt from Les Archives Sonores Sub Rosa, a short film without image.



       Spanning from 1972-1975, Harold Budd created four individual works under the collective title The Pavilion of Dreams, produced by ambient pioneer Brian Eno. His two subsequent collaborations with Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, established his trademark atmospheric piano style. Jon Hassell's first recordings were made with minimalist masters La Monte Young and Terry Riley, through whom he met the Hindustani raga master, Pandit Pran Nath. From his studies of the classical Indian music of the Kirana tradition he adapted these techniques to the trumpet and developed a new style of playing which forms the basis of his own unique sound world. Gavin Bryars has written a large number of works, including three operas, and a number of instrumental pieces. His first major work as composer was The Sinking of the Titanic on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975.



       This collection gathers together the most stunning of ambient, atmospheric sound worlds from three very important composers.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Myths 4: Sinople Twilight in Çatal Hüyük
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 007CD

Reissue of the fourth volume in this early Sub Rosa compilation series. Features long tracks from: Cheb Mami, Coil, Current 93 and some Turkish dervish ceremonial music from 1973 -- from the Sub Rosa archives of Revan Sanchez-Cotan. The Coil track is a liver version of "Another Brown World", recorded in 1989. The Current 93 track is "Some Morning When The Moon Was Blood", recorded in London, 1989; mixed by Steven Stapleton.

Artist:	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.
Title:	Break Through In Grey Room
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 008CD

"Officially re-released -- one of our absolute classics, back in print at last. Extraordinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in New York, Paris, London...It's impossible not to recognize the writer's voice -- the sonority of this voice -- a sonority also present in the silence of every text he wrote. An explosion of styles -- a blasting of borders -- the silence after a gunshot -- the overtaking of the fetishized word -- from the exploded painting to the cut tape. This record starts with a piece of more than 13 minutes, recorded around 1965 with Ian Sommerville somewhere in New York and London -- K-9 was in combat with the alien mind-screens, including various monologues, radio short waves and music...Tapes, cut and cut and cut up to the limit of sense -- emerged new structures of communication... and senses. Words gain power when loosing the boundaries of semantics. Including too Joujouka music recorded by WS Borroughs in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, circa 1973."

Artist:	TZOTZILES
Title:	Psalms, Stories and Music
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SR 017CD

2008 reissue of these field recordings made by Thierry Zéno in the Tzotzile community in Chiapas, Mexico, originally released by Sub Rosa in 1999. This is a unique document that includes rare ritual music, psalms, dialogue and stories of revolt from the last descendents of the Mayan culture. For the past 20 years, Belgian author and filmmaker Thierry Zéno has regularly visited the Tzotzile community that can be heard on this record, archiving and filming. Because he is accepted as "the man who makes pictures," and has made a point of showing the preceding year's film on each of his visits, he has compiled a survey of prime importance. A few of the most important rituals in the life of this community are offered here -- including the music for the Day of the Dead, the music heralding All Saints' Day, The Transfer of Power (chant of authority changing hands), sanctifying rituals, some dialogue in the language of the Maya, field recordings of Christmas night and Carnival and a fragment of speech of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Who are the Tzotziles? Some 150,000 Tzotziles live in the high plateaus in the state of Chiapas. They form, with the Tzeltales, a closely-related tribe, one of the most prominent Indian communities in Mexico. Of Mayan extraction, they retain a traditional life comparatively devoid of Hispanic influence. The Tzotzile religion is a syncretic fusion of Christianity that was imposed on them and their surviving ancestral beliefs. They venerate not only heaven and earth, but also the statues of the saints that are believed to be more than idols with non-Indian faces. They dress them up in clothes and jewels, wreathe them in flowers, burn incense to them, cover them in oil and make offerings of alcohol, and, more recently, of Coca-Cola and Pepsi -- the most expensive of drinks. The traditional Tzotzile orchestra is made up of instruments of their own fabrication -- harps, guitars, drums, little fiddles, and water pipes that mimic bird song. An incredibly important and poignant release, documenting the patchwork remnants of a completely unique culture that still exists beyond time and recollection.

Artist:	HAYWARD, CHARLES
Title:	Switch On War
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 040CD

Hayward was a founding member of the seminal UK group This Heat, then later formed Camberwell Now. Switch On War was originally issued in 1991 and is now reissued on its original label, after a long vacuum of unavailability. "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 disorienting, 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

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	Tre Canti Popolari
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 051CD

Reissue of these 1992 recordings. Performed by the Helix Ensemble (vocal ensemble), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (piano), Georg-Alexander van Dam (violin) and Jean-Paul Dessy (cello). Includes the title piece for vocal ensemble, "Duo For Violin & Cello," "Wo Ma" (song for bass voice), "Saub" (liturgia for two female voices), "Aïtsi" (for piano). "If Scelsi's work extends into all musical genres, except the theatre, it was first to the piano and then to the voice and the strings that he entrusted the most important stages of his creative evolution. The pieces presented here provide a relatively thorough view of Scelsi's mature style; from the explorations -- conceived at trips around, departing from a central sound, with the incorporation of quarter tones, glissandi and a meticulous treatment of tone quality and articulation; to the use of a certain melodiousness colored with heterophony and oriental-like ornamentation." -- Jean-Luc Fafchamps

Artist:	DUCHAMP, MARCEL
Title:	The Creative Act
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 057CD

New repress of this mid-90s release. "The first CD devoted exclusively to Marcel Duchamp brings some 50 minutes of very rare documents, all of which are crucial not only to understand Duchamp's work but also to grasp the rebellious, unconventional, anticonformist spirit that has always been there, but in the Zürich of 1919 took the absurd name of Dada." Content: "The Creative Act" (a lecture in Houston, TX -- April 1957); "Some texts from a L'Infinitif" (1912-20; lecture read in 1967, shortly before his death); "Erratum Musical" (score drawn at random and played on pedal harmonium by Jean-Luc Fafchamps; the first aleotry composition, long before John Cage); "An Interview" (by Richard Hamilton, recorded in NY, 1959); "A Score For Three Voices" (a score for 3 voices, only score written by Duchamp for his 2 sisters).

Artist:	VA
Title:	Konstantin Raudive - The Voices Of The Dead
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 066CD

"Sub Rosa presents a CD which contains fragments and reworkings of the legendary Raudive tapes. Who was Doctor Konstantin Raudive? Dr. Raudive, a student of Carl Jung, was a Latvian psychologist who taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, before devoting the last ten years of his life to electronic voice phenomenon (EVP). He published in his book Breakthrough in 1971. His early collaborator F.Jurgenson, whom he met by the very beginning of 1965, awakened Dr. K. Raudive's interest in EVP research. Raudive spent endless hours for the thorough study of Jurgenson's books (Voices from Space, 1964 and Radio-Link with the Dead, 1967). From an overwhelming database (ranging about 72000 samples!), Raudive's mother seems to be statistically the most frequently reported contact personality. The reality of the tapes: For many, the first traces of the Raudive Tapes were in William Burroughs' fictions and articles. The fact is, these mysterious magnetic tapes, which capture the voices of the dead, and were recorded by the Baltic scientist Konstantin Raudive, are not a fiction but a reality (we are not here to judge their scientific objectivity ). These tapes, as rare as Lovecraft's Necronomicon are now in the Sub Rosa archives. This Raudive celebration CD includes unpublished material by Scanner, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Calla, Lee Ranaldo, Ensemble, Random Inc., David Toop, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Brett Dean."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lunapark 0,10
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 080CD

A panorama of the most important avant-garde writers and artists of the century. This is a reissue of the 1999 Sub Rosa release. It begins in 1912 with Apollinaire and ends with the Brazilian avant-garde of the seventies. These are unique archival recordings most of which have never been released before. The concept of this release is from the writer, critic and close collaborator, Marc Dachy. Original recordings from: Guillaume Apollinaire (Parisian father of the avant-garde, 1912); Vladimir Maïakovski (leading Russian Futurist poet, 1914, 20); Richard Huelsenbeck (father of Dada in Berlin 1916 & 1967); Kurt Schwitters (the genius father of Merz, 1932); James Joyce (Irish writer and poet, 1929); Gertrude Stein (fiction writer, New York, 1934, 35); Antonin Artaud (Parisian playwright, actor, director, essayist, 1946); Tristan Tzara (father of Dada in Zurich, 1948, 49); Camille Bryen (one of the founding fathers of Tachism, 1932, 49); Marcel Duchamp (French/American painter and mixed media artist, 1957); e.e. cummings (American poet, painter, playwright, essayist); Brion Gysin (longtime Burroughs collaborator and cut-up technician, 1960, 62), Julian Beck (founder of the Living Theater, 1968, 73); Gherasim Luca (rare voice of the French poet in New York, 1969, 84); François Dufrène (French Lettrist and creator of crirythme, 1961, 73); Pierre Guyotat (Parisian avant-garde fiction writer, 1976); Augusto de Campos (Brazilian avant-garde poet, essayist and translator, as performed by Caetano Veloso, 1963, 79, 85).

Artist:	MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA, THE
Title:	Joujouka Black Eyes
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 087CD

"The master Musician of Joujouka come from the Rif mountains of Morocco. They are one of the best sufi music players of the world. The result is a unique records with the real thing, something to do with the day-by-day life -- a very intimist mood. One of the few legitimate recordings of the legendary Moroccan ensemble, recorded in Joujouka, 1994. Once a strange boy from the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World visited Joujouka. He proved to be a 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. Jones was honorable in his dealings with Joujouka but, in the years since his death, much that is dishonorable has been said, written and done. There has been the remorseless tokenism of 'World Music'. There have been myriad attempts at cultural hegemony on the broad-spectrum 'Beat Generation' scene. Many pseudo-hip figures with pristine international reputations have been shameful in their uncharacteristically discreet negotiations with Musicians on the mountain. 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. Hamri, the Painter of Morocco, believes that the world now needs the healing powers of The Master Musicians. The people of Joujouka share this belief. Their village, sublime in it's silence and tranquility, is by the way of sharp contrast with the post-modern cosmopolis. For sure, the world outside the village is a battered and tragic place where there is no respite from moribund philosophy or from an increasingly malevolent media/State interface. The time for the music of Joujouka has assuredly arrived."

Artist:	ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Title:	Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 092CD

Originally released by Sub Rosa in 1996. "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu": to have done with god's judgement. This is the story of a banned broadcast by madman/theorist/philosopher/playwright Antonin Artaud. After hearing Artaud's work, the director of the French radio censored it on the spot. Sub Rosa issues here the complete broadcast (including texts performed in the most phenomenal manner by Antonin Artaud himself, and the strange trance-like music of his own invention). Artaud would die a few months later. The recording comes with an important introduction by Marc Dachy, who puts things in their historical perspective. Antonin Artaud is still the archetypal accursed poet, the man confined to the asylum, the inventor of the theatre of cruelty -- but he was above all a visionary. In 1945, he published The Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras, a panting and lacerating chant based on his trip to Mexico and his experiences with peyote. There is his famous lecture in the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in 1947, and the following year, his ultimate work -- a piece devised for radio -- Pour en Finir Avec le Jugement de Dieu. "The Dance of the Tutuguri" is a part of the censored broadcast, issued here. Artaud is now beyond language and you can hear his shouts and outcries on a background of drums and percussion; well into a state of trance.

Artist:	MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA/GNOUA BROTHERHOOD OF MARRAKESH
Title:	Moroccan Trance Music Vol. 2/Sufi Music
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 097CD

From the Rif mountains of Morocco, comes the second volume of Moroccan trance music from the Coeur du Monde/Ritual Music and Field Recordings project by Sub Rosa, featuring Sufi music. Recorded on location

in Morocco in 1995, the purpose of this series is to record rare and secret ritual music as it happens. The logical continuation is with the more reflective music of the Sufis. Along with the droning sound of the double reed and tebel drum, the recording begins with the very raw Gnaoua of Marrakesh featuring the true and pure voice of young Tayib Taiybe (the most extraordinary soul voice since Jimmy Cliff). This release showcases the solo flute of some of the oldest musicians of Joujouka. For your ears and heart, this second volume reveals heretofore unknown sacred chamber music by the Morocco's most acclaimed musicians. 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.

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Unfinished
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 103CD

"Locust is one of the many shades of Mark Van Hoen. Locust are difficult to describe in that no one description can adequately cover the intensity and complexity of their craft. Theirs is a deep, moving and mysterious work which ranges from abstract electronica, intelligent yet sensual techno grooves, and sparse minimalistic experimentations: all of which can be admired on several critically acclaimed (and classic) releases as Locust on R&S, as well as his other collaborations as Scala (Touch) and Aurobindo (Ash). While artists such as Oval, Seefeel, and Mouse on Mars continue to gain popularity, it should be very evident that Mark Van Hoen is at the forefront of this new school of innovative sound pioneers. Lilith, the captivating magic and alluring beauty of Scott Gibbons' very unique blend of musique concrete, supernatural ritualistic recordings and meditative cadences were prepared live on this very special occasion for a broadcast over the airwaves. Mick Harris dark ambient soundscapes of the inner psyche are further explored from the depths of dense dub dementia with biting noise terrorism. On this sinister, hypnotic rhythmic excursion, Mick Harris (Napalm Death, Scorn, Lull, Painkiller) shows us a reflection of himself, complete with shattered illusions. David Toop is familiar from his earliest outings with General Strike to his contributions to Prince Far I (and other On-U Sound outings) and more recently his collaborations with artists such as Scanner. David has been a innovative pioneer on the revolutionary fringes of sounds; both cutting edge and timeless cultures. As extraordinary as his diverse and prolific background may be as musician, performer and composer, his talents as a writer, historian and music critic (e.g. his recent Ocean of Sound book) are of equal significance. A truly profound and rare artist who has created very accomplished and provocative work in seemingly opposing fields."

Artist:	RIMBAUD, ROBIN
Title:	The Garden Is Full Of Metal
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 104CD

"Sub Rosa presents the re-release of a classic: Robin Rimbaud's aka Scanner tribute to Derek Jarman. Derek Jarman was one of England's greatest cinematique visionairies. Spanning painting, theatre, film, he comfortably moved between genres, seemingly shape shifting at will. From designing ballet and theatre in the sixties for Frederick Ashton and Ken Russell, through to his own films in super-8 and seminal features such as Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), The Last of England (1987) and Blue (1993), Jarman explored a unique and compelling vision until his death from AIDS in 1994. Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner was both a friend and collaborator over the years and this CD is his tribute to an important figure in both his life and others. Using recordings of Jarman's voice as well as location recordings around his home, he creates a graceful and delicate sculpture in sound. This is a close friend's tribute, backed by a profound understanding of the filmmaker's sense of intimacy, atmosphere and drama."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Double Articulation: Folds & Rhizomes Remix Project
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 110CD

Repromtion of this classic mid-90s Sub Rosa CD. "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, David Shea remixes Scanner, Scanner remixes Mouse On Mars, Tobias Hazan remixes Main, Main remixes Oval and 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."

Artist:	LASWELL, BILL
Title:	City of Light
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 114CD

Originally released in 1997 on Sub Rosa, now reissued. American bassist Bill Laswell (Praxis, Massacre, etc.) is the founder of "collision music" -- a collaborative concept that brings together musicians from divergent instrumentations and backgrounds. City of Light is about Banaras, a city older than history, tradition, way beyond legends. It is Shiva's land, founded at the dawn of creation. It is India's oldest and most fabled city. The Hindus call it Kashi, the luminous... The City of Light. This release features a truly stunning and contemplative merging of Eastern and Western sounds: from tabla to ambient drone and field recordings, in collaboration with some of the best experimental minds. Featuring Lori Carson, Coil, Trilok Gurtu, Tetsu Inoue, Hakim Bey. Recorded in Banaras, India, and mixed at Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn. India meets New York in the industrial darkness.

Artist:	INUIT
Title:	55 Historical Recordings/Traditional Music From Greenland
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 115CD

"This record is surely unique. It was 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 Inuit recordings! As a guide through this abundant material, we included the complete notes from the original booklet... Notes, comments and photos. A helpful 24 pages complement not only for purists. Voices recorded in Greenland almost hundred years ago on wax glader cylinders 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 between1905 (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."

Artist:	POUSSEUR, HENRI
Title:	Liège A Paris
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 117CD

"Created in 1977 for the Centre Pompidou foundation on the stage of Paris's Beaubourg, at the instigation of Luciano Berio, 'Liège à Paris' is a fifteen-part composition lasting one hour, where Henri Pousseur takes us on voyage of exploration, mixing the voices of travellers of diverse languages and accents, with the sounds of planes, trains, the atmosphere of streets and Iranian restaurants, noises of every sort, cries, ritournellos, nursery rhymes, fragments of former compositions ('Trois visages de Liège', 1961) -- a polyphonic story through with the voice (and texts) of Michel Butor -- leaving Paris for a world air tour... The Belgian composer Henri Pousseur studied composition at the academies of Liège and Brussels. In his early period he wrote in Webern's serial technique style and then turned to electronic and aleatoric music. He has translated Alban Berg 's written."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Water & Architecture
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 120CD

Originally released in 1998 by Sub Rosa, now re-issued. Water & Architecture features previously unreleased material by Atom Heart, Seefeel, Directions, Bisk and AER. Nature, cities, water, concrete... water eating rocks, shores. Cities eating landscapes, life. Those two elements are interconnected, though constantly embattled. In between there are humans, needing both elements to survive, and a shelter to protect the body -- also mostly comprised of water. 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? These artists attempt to answer these questions through carefully-constructed mediations. Directions: post-rock with electronic flavors, featuring Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise, Bastro, Gastr del Sol) and Doug Sharin (June of 44, Him, Rex). Recorded in the Tortoise Studio, Chicago. Seefeel: releases on Too Pure, Warp -- a unique act in the pop-electronica scene, somewhere in between folk-dub-intelligent electro. Their two tracks mix natural rhythms and minimal electronica. Atom Heart: his track starts as a German techno groove that ends in electro-limbo. Bisk: the Osaka post drum'n' bass wizard Naohiro Fujikawa, in a three-piece suit of strange sounds. AER (Alpha Echo Romeo), aka Jon Wozencroft, British designer, co-founder of the Touch label, composes these tracks with sounds collected worldwide. Pure architectural experimentation.

Artist:	DE PUTTER, RENAUD
Title:	Chorée
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 131CD

"We intensively continue our unclassical program. We were the first in the early 90s to publish Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Marcel Duchamp and young European composers as Jean-Luc Fachamps and Thierry Demy. Choree is the first record of the young Belgian composer Renaud De Putter -- what we present here is 3 pieces for piano (performed by Stephane Ginsburge). We are here far away either from the neo-classical trends and from the new post-serial academism -- it is really a quite free method of composition -- very rhizomatic, and strong in its realization. Included in this production: a multi-media aspect (CD ROM) -- 5 films from 1904 by the Belgian neurolog (and pioneer of the scientific film!) Arthur van Gehuchten. In the very early part of this century he decided to film his patients (who had strong neurotic problems) after seeing the first projection of the Lumiére brother in Brussels. The result is more than 200 short scientific films. Renaud de Putter was very impressed by them and decided to compose short piano piece on them. Strong!"

Artist:	VA
Title:	Unclassical
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 138CD

"This disc presents the Unclassical aspect of our catalogue -- that is, music of today, performed for the most part with traditional acoustic instruments (piano, violin, cello...). Musicians, composers, and pieces, liberated of all dogma and far from the coteries or more practical application of theories. What we present here is a collection of the highspots in contemporary music -- many unpublished pieces for piano, violin, voices or ensemble by Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Luigi Dallapiccola, Giacinto Scelsi, Hanns Eisler, Stefan Wolpe. There's even a rare piece by the merican writer Paul Bowles, it ends the record in a way of hommage. Also featured are young composers who took their first breaths with Feldman. David Shea, with commissioned works for Ictus and the ensemble Musique Nouvelle, was a student of Feldman's in New York before becoming John Zorn's protégé in the alternative scene downtown. Brett Dean, viola player at the Berliner, and an Australian member of Frame-Cut-Frame, was, with David Shea, among the first to release successful works based on sampling. There are other young composers with vision too, like Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Renaud De Putter. Plus, included is an unreleased version of musical erratum by Marcel Duchamp, two pieces recorded in Italy by the Russolo Brothers (a murmur recorded in the beginning of the 20's -- a first step towards a musique bruitiste, électronique or concrète). There's also a 1911 recording performed by Claude Debussy himself, an extract from a piece composed by Henri Pousseur for the foundation of Paris' contemporary art center Beaubourg in 1977. Here you'll find the profound investigations pursued by the founders of the electronic music of the 50's and 60's throughout the world."

Artist:	GYSIN, BRION
Title:	One Night @ the 1001
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SR 142CD

Reissue of this long unavailable 1998 album, with new cover artwork. As surrealist painter, poet, novelist, audio experimenter, inventor of the Dream Machine, and favorite collaborator of William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin would influence the most creative minds of the '60s and '70s. In 1954, Gysin launched his 1001 Nights club in Tangier. In his mythic restaurant that stayed opened only a few months, Gysin invited the best traditional Moroccan musicians to perform all night long. The first CD of this document is what the lucky Western and Moroccan customers of the interzone could hear at the time: a varied selection of pure traditional and trance music (along with other Joujouka master musicians, Bachir Attar's father). Joujouka utilizes the technique of circular breathing backed by trance-inducing rhythms and sounds from the rhaita, reed flutes and small drums. A decade before Brian Jones brought this timeless music to the world, this is a unique document recorded by the inventor of the cut-up method himself, digitally remastered by Brion's recordings heir Ramuntcho Matta and includes Paul Bowles' exclusive introduction. The second volume of this double CD document is based on a spoken word tape called Dilaloo that is a precise description -- written and read in 1956 by Brion Gysin "Master Brahim" himself -- of an initiation ceremony in the village of Jajouka. Ramuntcho added a quiet electronic music background generated by a computer algorithm program that he created in Gysin's random permutative spirit. Between the music of trance and the raw cry of being, we see the process of transformation at work. Trust your bones and put your faith in the Third Mind! Rare archives filed in the Aural Documents collection.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Sub Rosa Vs Shi-Ra-Nui
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 148CD

"Shi-Ra-Nui is a Japanese breaks`n`beats label. Breaks`n`beats is a foundation, a source, a current, a move, a body, a flow and mainly a source of inspiration for many different innovative musicians and DJ's covering different genres in the process of creating their own distinctive hybrids. It relates from all grooves from techno to downtempo to d`n`b to hip hop. Sub Rosa crew: DJ Wally, Bisk, Tone Rec, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Multiphonic Ensemble attack the Japanese underground: DJ Hati Monji, Jigen, Cappablack, Ruf Neck Piano and Broken Bells. A new kind of virtual battleground...the versus project proposes some friendly clashes between Sub Rosa and labels ready to fight! Next opponents: Kompakt, Fat Cat...."

Artist:	FREEFORM
Title:	Green Park
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SR 149LP

LP version. "Freeform is the extremely free and open minded doppelganger from Simon Pyke, the prolific English musician sampled by Howie B. and getting credits for it. Appearing everywhere action is: Skam, Warp, Worm Interface, Language (on Electric Kingdom as Nudge), Law and Auder, Chocolate Industries. Freeform is a 'non-linear' electronician, experimentaing and investigating every aspect of what electronic music is and should be. For his new album under the Sub Rosa banner, Freeform is playing with the world of acoustic sources: creating a toy box ready to be opened for fun and pleasure, and forget all about Pandora. You get: action, exoticism, and weird things from outer space. Freeform is guiding whoever listens to this strange and amazingly beautiful album to unknown countries. Green Park is filled with the sound of a gamelan ensemble facing the gateway to King Kong's lair, with the astonishing sound from futuristic samba anthems, and sometimes with childlike neo-expressionist lullabies close to The Residents. An incredible soundtrack for a movie to create while listening -- eyes shut -- to this album, the source of inspiration for Roger Corman's James Bond feature, including exotic dancers abducted by pink and purple aliens while the hero has psychedelic dreams under a snowstorm in Bali. This time there will be a rumble in the quiet electronic village, and nobody to save This Island Earth, at last. Looking back to Freeform's already thick catalog, one might say that Green Park is once again a musical neologism, a habit that Simon Pike will surely not abandon too soon. If you thought you knew Freeform, have a walk in this Green Park and you can be sure things will change a little bit."

Artist:	LASWELL, BILL
Title:	Lo. Def Pressure
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 150CD

Originally released in 2000 on Sub Rosa, now reissued. Another India project Bill Laswell classic featuring esteemed collaborative musicians. Lo. Def Pressure is a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners invitation to cyber-ethnic anthems, devoted to jungle beats and other hard-kicking fusions from New York to New Delhi, Kingston to London. This is a virtual trip through space and time: fasten your seat belt. Artists include: Bill Laswell (bass, keyboard, beats, sounds); Kadri Sriram, Arif Singh & Hassan Akber Ali (additional music, elements and sounds); Zakir Hussain & Badal Roy (tabla matrix, rhythm elements).

Artist:	SCANNER/DAVID SHEA
Title:	Free Chocolate Love
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SR 151CD

"Sit back, relax and plunge into the lush enticing world of Free Chocolate Love. The split album is a tribute from David Shea and Scanner to lounge or cocktail music, the first opus of a new series called Themes. Themes is a high-tech travel invitation to the land of 'cult' music, from Les Baxter to Prince Charles, Jean-Jacques Perrey to Latino soul, soundtracks to whatever. What is the essence of all these strange cult anthems, what is the common factor between kitschy disco and Attilio Mineo's futuristic extravagance? An answer to discover in the next Themes volumes through the work of musicians like Atom Heart, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, and Rip-Off Artist. There's a wide range of influences: lounge, electrofunk, disco, samba, electro-pop, so if there is a general thematic guideline behind Themes, there are no genre restrictions. The main idea is the confrontation of these pearls from the 'past' and the present technology or techniques. In David Shea's universe nothing seems to be impossible. Imagine Spike Jones remixed by John Cage or Lil' Louis working with Stockhausen, the meeting of Tex Avery and Jean-Luc Godard with a musical illustration from Les Baxter. As a human sampler, David Shea tends to redefine the common space-continuum, geographical, sociological and musical frontiers, reaching a point of restructuration where anachronism is senseless."

Artist:	VEDIC SOUND
Title:	Song Of Light
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 152CD

"Vedic aka Prakasa was resident DJ with Talvin Singh and State of Bengal at the Blue Note night Anokha. He has been incorporating the Sacred Arts into his music and has been using elements from the Angelic and Sanskrit traditions, East and West, in spiritual free style, both recording and performing alongside Coldcut, Asian Dub Foundation, Universe, Tribal Posse, Pressure Drop, Earthtribe, Nitin Sawhney and Bill Laswell. His fusion led to his first work on Sub Rosa Rhythmic Intelligence; Vedic´s new LP is a timeless piece that reflects the true nature of the universes in word and mantra, with its mix of truth and celestial vibrations that was recorded with this millenniums first Scalar Energy device, which coats particles with electro magnetic waves to form a unique energy signature."

Artist:	LASWELL, BILL
Title:	Hashshisheen -- The End of Law
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 154CD

Originally released in 1999 by Sub Rosa, now reissued. Hashishisheen -- The End of Law is one of Bill Laswell's best-known masterpieces of ambient spoken-word. The works of William S. Burroughs and collaborator Brion Gysin are the main inspiration and key to the initiation of The Hashisheen project. Through immense exposure to their innovative experimentation, Bill Laswell developed a strong interest in North Africa, Arab culture, Islam, the Tangier scene, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Paul Bowles, ritual magick, drugs and travel; and discovered their obsession with the wild heretical actions of the Persian-Hassan-i-Sabbah, who claimed to be the incarnation of God on earth -- Hassan, son of Sabbah. Featuring the music of Bill Laswell, W.S. Burroughs, Iggy Pop, Techno Animal, Patti Smith, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Genesis P-Orridge, Jah Wobble, Paul Schutze, Anne Clark, Hakim Bey, Nicky Scopelitis, Peter Wilson, Nicole Blackman, Ira Cohen, Helios Creed, Anton Fier, Sussan Deyhim and Percy Howard III.

Artist:	CALLA
Title:
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SR 156CD

"Calla is a new band formed by 3 Texans in New York. It is one of the most inventive musics imaginable since the sound and image experimentations by David Lynch. If you close your eyes you will immediately be connected with a kind of strange, electric, dark, ambiguous universe -- a parallel world between an offbeat Texas rockabilly and soundmass of the sixties' New York avant garde. Aurelio Valle was raised in South Texas, and relocated to North Texas in early 1993, playing in various rockabilly and garage bands. Wayne B. Magruder and Sean Donovan played in a variety of bands throughout high school together. When the band relocated to NYC in 1993, Magruder joined Bowery Electric as a live drummer, and played on their second LP, Beat. Sean Donovan is a classically trained composer, influenced by the American experimentalist tradition, especially the New York school of the fifties and Fluxus composers of the sixties. Late in 1997, with intentions of integrating melodic structures into urban soundscapes, the 3 roommates formed Calla. They recorded their debut LP throughout 1998 at their home in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Sub Rosa Vs Kompakt
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 157CD

Repress of this long unavailable 1999 release. "A New Kind Of Virtual Battleground: The versus series project proposes some friendly clashes between Sub Rosa and labels ready to fight! Next opponent: Fat Cat . This second opus in the series is a virtual journey through a gallery of electronic pieces. Side by side original tracks and remixes offer in their combination a new approach to the Köln-based label Kompakt. Tobias Thomas/Michael Mayer, Jürgen Paape, Dettinger, Freiland, and Michael Mayer have been reshaped by To Rococo Rot, Autechre, DJ Olive, Freeform, Lelonek, Nail Harvey, Scanner, etc. A wide range of new approaches to Kompakt's electronic hymns, mixing together the pleasure of solid dancefloor oriented songs to abstract electro, Indian vibes, dub. Kompakt is the new electro scene from Germany, the missing link in between the spirit of the early Detroit's techno sound and the melodic abstraction from Mouse On Mars and so many more. Minimal, massive, subtle. Kompakt is now considered a not-to-be-missed label, don't ask why, just listen!"

Artist:	MATI:K
Title:
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 162CD

"After the concrete experimentalism from Bisk, the unique and introspective hip hop from The Multiphonic Ensemble, be sure to taste without any restrictions (no side effects detected) the electronic melodies from Mati:k (a.k.a. Masanobu Yanagida). You won't believe this guy is a 'newcomer'. Following the albums from Bisk and The Multiphonic Ensemble, Sub Rosa presents another Japanese sensation: Mati:k. For his first album Masanobu Yanagida chose to explore the world of electro oriented music with a very personal approach: crushed and distorted beats mixed with an accurate sense of melodies placed in an open field. Far from the usual Japanese hectic archetype, Mati:k is the perfect remedy to avoid the claustrophobic aspects of electro. Be ready to face a world full of contradictory sensations, constantly mutating -- yet constant in intensity and straight electronic orientation, as opposed to the usual 'human-machines don't think or feel' attitude. As a wishmaster, Mati:k will provide the necessary energy when you are down and the quietness you need to face stress. But don't expect him to show you the 'way' to follow. Listen and you will find the answers."

Artist:	TOOP, DAVID
Title:	37th Floor at Sunset
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 163CD

"David Toop is a musician, composer, writer and sound curator. He published three books: Rap Attack, Ocean of Sound and Exotica. He has also released five solo albums since 1995: (Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum of Fruit and Hot Pants Idol). He worked with musicians such as Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derrek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner, Ivor Cutler and Witchman. '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, High Rise, 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.' -- David Toop"

Artist:	BENGE
Title:	The Very Best Of Benge
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 167CD

"After 7 albums of unique electronica released on his own label and recorded in his studio based in London, Benge shares his musical visions with Sub Rosa by way of his favorite tracks from his five first releases on an album outrageously called The Very Best Of and packaged in the grand tradition of seminal listening music albums. In an attempt to reconcile the sound of machines dreaming of electric shapes and floating on magnetic clouds with an updated musical expression of warmth, the British sandman invites you to the land of electronic meditation. Regarding his direct and reduced style, Benge is the missing link between the 70´s melodic electronica and the present advanced electro wizards, a truly relevant ambient revivalist."

Artist:	MALANGA, GERARD
Title:	Up From the Archives
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 170CD

Reissue of this 1999 release, which has been unavailable for a few years. Writer, photographer, filmmaker, performer (with the Velvet Underground) and Andy Warhol's main assistant, superstar and closest friend at the Factory from 1963 to 1970. This is a complete New York pop archive from the beatnik era. Also known as a seminal photo archivist of pop culture, Gerard Malanga edited for Sub Rosa a selection of his audio documents from the early '60s to the '90s and invited some friends like Iggy Pop, Thurston Moore and DJ Olive to be part of this vivid archive; mixing the past with the present and the future. Next to the exclusive tracks by the above-mentioned artists you'll find some more from William S. Burroughs, Charles Henri Ford, Peter Hartman, Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gerard himself. The CD comes with a special booklet of photo portraits and poems by the artists.

Artist:	SILK SAW VS. JARDIN D'USURE
Title:	Electric Musical Chairs
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 172CD

"Back in 1989 came the first efforts from Jardin D'Usure, a post-dada duo from Brussels which soon became purveyors of Sub Rosa classics. Slowly mutating under massive exposition to radioactive particles into the Silk Saw chaos factory, producing an highly innovative illbient material, full of sub-bass and groovy abstraction. 1999, ten years after their first appearance, they decided to create the best of both worlds, the ultimate confrontation between their schizophrenic projects. Hybridation is now successfully completed. Through the project Jardin D'Usure, the Belgian duo Marc Medea and Gabriel Severin, tried to cut the edges of music, with an obvious taste for abstraction and 'dadaïsme'. They recorded under this name the memorable album Musique du Garrot et de la Ferraille and several pieces for compilations such as Continuum Absorbus 2, a Sub Rosa lexicon. They added a new approach to their universe, and started a new project, more oriented toward massive bass and slow-motion crushing. Silk Saw was born. Their first album Come Freely, Go Safely was acclaimed as a masterpiece in the new-born illbient scene, even without a connection to New York. The Multi-Projects duo (a.k.a. Ultraphonist) dared the ultimate experiment: blending the particles from Jardin D'Usure and Silk Saw, trying to create the perfect hybridation through a process of recreation, some kind of strange and fascinating osmotic process. As always, their fascination for organic sounds is creating a two-sided, (or, one might say, three-sided) musical field, pulsating in unison with your mind, heart, bones, and chest. Infiltrating every cell and organ. As the band said 'the ultimate billow which makes us overturn, it gets you tipsy and is about to revoke.' Let's keep some secret about it. Hybridation is the future for sure."

Artist:	PAIK, NAM JUNE
Title:	Works 1958-1979
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 178CD

"This is a wide panorama of Nam June Paik work as musician -- 'Hommage à John Cage' (1958-1959), 'Étude for Pianoforte' (1959-1960) and 'Simple' (1961) are good exemple of neodada music and de-structuration in the late 50's, this is basically irreverent audio-collages. 'Prepared Piano for Merce Cunningham' (1977) captures an improvised performance by Paik on a de-tuned piano. While 'Prepared for Merce Cunningham' was later mixed and edited for use by Cunningham, this raw, straight-to-tape version is favored by Paik. 'Duett: Paik/Takis' (1979) this is the only piece already released (by 20 years ago on a limited vinyl edition). Paik improvises on piano and voice, while Takis performs on his metal sculptures. Nam June Paik, was born in Seoul, Korea in 1932. After a move to Japan, where he studied the work of composer Arnold Schönberg, Paik came to Germany in 1956 to continue his studies in the history of music. His interests soon turned away from the university setting, to less traditional forms of music leading him to the Westdeutsche Rundfunk's Studio for Electronic Music, where Karlheinz Stockhausen was working. To date, there have been only a handful of limited edition LP and cassette releases of Paik's music, primarily documenting collaborative performances with colleagues and friends such as Joseph Beuys and Charlotte Moorman. This is the first CD release of Paik's music and the first ever release of the early tape collage pieces that were to inform the video and performance works that he has continued to produce over the last forty years."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Substancia 2
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	SR 180CD

"For this Substancia 2, the guideline is clear: unreleased and forthcoming tracks as leitmotiv. Here you will find exclusive material from Richard Thomas, atom tm a.k.a. Atom Heart, Scanner, Freeform, Calla and our Japanese pride Bsik. New artists like Tal (hip hop-like beats and collages), Rip-Off Artist (wicked late 70's electro fusion), Ensemble (melodic skips and scratches) share the track listing with some Sub Rosa names: Tone Rec revisited by To Rococo Rot, Benge with an extract from his upcoming album Silicon Valleys, Bump and Grind presenting a track from the new album Abstract Theme Variations'. And as a reminder of the superb Multiphonic Ensemble's Cirque, we've enclosed the track 'A Tasty Choreographer'. Unreleased material & forthcoming tracks for a low low price."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Electric Flat Land
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 181CD

"Here is a selection of Belgian musicians that have in common a passion for creating electronic music in a truly and purely personal way. This doesn't mean that we are purely in some abstract landscape, the usual language and codes of music can be disobey without becoming an experimental mess. These musicians are building some new forms of communication. It seems like there are artists and musicians today who do not think like before. For many of them, it has to do with -- although none of it is calculated -- living a more enjoyable life, to be able to move freely, not asking for anything and not caring about what others think, leaving aside the knowledge of the past, expressing more than that through music, by giving birth to knowledge that they carry within them, naturally. That is the knowledge of folly. However, to remember the 'optimists' club' in order to practice and seek out that which does not come through words, confuse ethics and aesthetics with often bare, generous, and precise gestures. Not out of self-arrogance that is lost and that can never be found (the artist and not his parody, is singular, but still linked), not wait for orders that come from somewhere else, from something that does not exist anymore, and therefore meaningless to them. Here is, without a doubt, some of these people, here, close by." Artists include: Object, Géographique, J-Drik, Mash'ta, Köhn, Jardin D'usure, P'chu, Seal Phüric, Ultraphonist, Urawa, Todor Todoroff, Martiens Go Home, Kern, RM, The Joint Between, Frédéric Marbaix.

Artist:	DUCHAMP, MARCEL
Title:	Erratum Musical
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 183CD

Subtitled: "7 Variations on a Draw of 88 Notes." Performed 2/8/2000. "The principle of musical erratum is simple: you choose a keyboard -- any keyboard -- you draw each note at random -- no note can be struck twice, but all are struck -- the resulting whole is played without any particular modulation, 'a uniformity de rhythm, an accentuation' says Duchamp. The premises of minimal and aleatory art are thus expressed in 'the green box', published in 1934 (although the writings date back to 1912-15). To do this, we chose to use a piano (a Bösendorfer). Stephane Ginsburgh still young (born in 69), he is already known as a great pianist by the critics -- he loves to build his concerts as a mix-up of styles -- perfect in his performance of Robert Schumann, Morton Feldman and Stockhausen, he was the man between the pieces for piano by Renaud de Putter. The pieces heard here were recorded on one single day -- the beginning is lively, full of exploration (#1) - then it becomes gentler (#2) -- almost Feldmanian (#3) -- we reach the hard core in the center: 36 minutes that swallow up the everyday world (it's 4 pm, children are getting out of school, people are coming and going, cars rev up...) (#4) -- then there is the magic inverse version (#5) -- a strong reverse, tense, strung out (#6) -- then, tenuous, ending as evening falls (#7) -- the last note -- no. 63 -- is struck for the last time -- it was also the first note, played six hours earlier. To conclude on Erratum (from The Latin, fault, error, erratus, to lose one's way), neither order, nor chaos, we have obeyed the laws of chance -- an innocent hand, taking numbers from a vase -- a chance signed by Duchamp's idea, the sounds that come out here are his or the piano's or any human being's, living or dead."

Artist:	RAWFRÜCHT
Title:	2
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 186CD

"As a trio [guitars plus percussions], Rawfrücht tends to redefine the rules of the secular guitarist's world. Described as a weird avant garde noisy soundscape jazz rock trio... with a groovy approach, one might say that eclecticism is a much better and convenient description for this unique Belgian band. A not to-be-classified universe now completed with some timid voice appearances, floating over the unusual rock-but-not-postrock field of guitars. After the release of their first untitled album names like Marc Ribot, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, and King Crimson were tossed around frequently. Seemingly aware of these echoes, the trio seems to have achieved a new level of guitaristic blend and 'unclassical' elements. Their new opus 2, is unabashedly presumptuous and presented as a 'conceptual' object, evolving like a landscape observed through a windscreen while driving in an unknown country under permanent misty weather. Music for an introspective journey toward the far limits of one's subconscious, with as a guide the 13 minute long opening track 'Suite 2', and the subtle murmured vocals on 'Forythia Pt. 1 & 2'."

Artist:	TONE REC
Title:	Demo Pack Demoli
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SR 188CD

"Here´s some more of funky Tone Rec. A mini album featuring 4 new tracks and remixes from Christian Fennesz, To Rococo Rot and Tone Rec's new avatar DAT Politics. On this Coucy Pack follower, Tone Rec illustrate their ability to create a radical melodic destructuration. As they once said: 'we haven't got a predetermined structural model.' That is what it's all about, going a step further into abstract minimalist patterns, establishing deconstruction as a skill. 4 new tracks working at the same time as a complement to their previous material, and a preview for the future. But Demo Pack Démoli is more than that. This mini-album features 4 remixes, visions filtered through a broken mirror of the French quartet's universe of the gentle chaos, re-orchestrations made by Christian Fennesz (Mego crew, some more minimalism), To Rococo Rot (a groovy kind of...), and Tone Rec's side project Dat Politics."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Last Pieces (Performed By Stephane Ginsburgh)
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 189CD

"This new release on Sub Rosa is the third in a series of three concentrating on avant-garde piano compositions (prev. volumes: Triadic Memoris, Piano Pieces For More Than 2 Hands). American composer Morton Feldman, born 1926, is now recognized as an one of the most important composers of the 20/21st century. After he met John Cage in the late forties he developed a method of intuitive composing which allowed Feldman to work on the outside of the strict classical system. On this recording pianist Stephane Ginsburgh plays three piano compositions which capture the essence of Morton Feldman's artistry, pure moments of sound and infinity. Or as Ginsburgh quoted: 'Ask the music first and use your concentration.'"

Artist:	VA
Title:	An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 1
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SR 190CD

"Sub Rosa presents part 1 of a vast anthology of noise and electronic music to be released during the next years in seven volumes. An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 1 begins in the 1920s, with the Russolo Brothers, and looks at each decade in turn -- Varése, Cage, Schaeffer, Xenakis, the great pioneers -- and shows 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. The more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. In fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished. This 2xCD comes as a Digipak with 24 page booklet." Artists include: Luigi & Antonio Russolo, Walter Ruttman, Pierre Schaeffer, Henri Pousseur, Gordon Mumma, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad & John Cale, Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide & Martin Tétreault, Survival Research Laboratories, Einsturzende Neubauten, Konrad Boehmer, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Sonic Youth, Edgard Varése, Iannis Xenakis, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Pauline Oliveros, Ryoji Ikeda.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Folds & Rhizomes: A Tribute to Gillez Deleuze
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 099CD

Artist:	SILK SAW
Title:	Dystopia
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 116CD