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Blackhouse - Sacrificium Messiae
Previously unreleased Maurizio Binachi recordings from 1983, backed with early Blackhouse recordings, which were only released before as bonus tracks on the rare American edition of the 'Pro-Life' CD in 1997. Edition on white-red splatter vinyl, limited to 80 copies.
Andrei Tarkovsky - Another Kind Of Language
With Michael Northam, Jon Tulchin, Yannick Dauby, Dale Lloyd, John Hudak, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Ronnie Sundin, Ven Voisey, Magali Babin, duul_drv, Josh Russell, Phillip Pietruschka, Sawako, Logoplasm, Andrew Chalk, Loren Chasse, John Grzinich, Radio Cegeste, Asher, BJ Nilsen, Kassel Jaeger. At last, a triple CD re-issue of one of the most requested out-of-print releases in the label back catalog. Twenty one sound artists created work inspired by one of Tarkovsky’s seven feature length films. The fir…
Gancio Cielo
** restocked ** Gancio Cielo is the first full length of Francesco Cavaliere, an artist we had the pleasure to introduce to the public some years ago with a legendary tape called “Neverending Somersault”. After years of live performing and an intense studio work, Francesco developed a unique style using his voice as main source of sounds and an incredible archive of home made sound FX. Gancio Cielo is a magical space standing on its own, where a fantastic night-time story combined with exo…
as/if/when
Sub Rosa presents works by industrial music pioneer, Z'EV. The physical vibrations of the objects in his works with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah, as well as -- but not limited to -- African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala. From 1959-1965 he studied drumming with Arnie Frank, then Chuck Flores and then Art Anton at Drum City in Van …
YZ3Z2Z1S2, a Five-Letter Sufi Word
"My second complete Sufi word -- or cycle -- consists of five contrasting letters -- or movements -- calling for various combinations of soloists [2, 3, 4, 5], instrumental ensemble [1, 3, 5], and real-time electronics [2, 4, 5]. It confidently extends a global poetic design made of a quest for meaning, a taste for extraordinary adventures, an interest in the perfume of mystical ecstasy, and the pleasure of carefully sculpting the time and shapes that make up writing." Jean-Luc Fafchamps i…
Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-61
Outstanding, unreleased before fundamental electronic In 1954, Henri Pousseur was twenty-five when he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen (with whom he had a close relationship) had created most of his famous pieces. Released in our Early Electronic series This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works -his first steps. Hen…
Parabolique d'Enfer / Paraboles-Mix avec Leons d'Enfer
It is the sixth release (out of eight) in our catalog devoted to this composer's experimental and electronic works. It also marks the end of the trilogy on the Parabolic works (following the 1972 unreleased recordings and the 2001 collective performance). This time around, we have a piece built through another major Pousseur work: Leçon d'Enfer (composed in 1990-1991 around Arthur Rimbaud). This previously unreleased version was realized by Henri Pousseur in Cologne in 1992.Paraboles-Mix avec Le…
Circuitous
At the nexus of Afrofuturism, science fiction, transcendental free jazz, and future hip hop, this new work from Eric Douglas Porter casts itself and its creator in a liminal zone most recognizably charted by astral traveler Sun Ra. Circuitous follows nearly a decade of releases for Deepblak -- the Oakland-rooted imprint of frequent collaborator Aybee -- and shares common blood with both the elevated consciousness of late '80s club culture and contemporary west coast beat scene. Built around Po…
The Garden Is Full Of Metal - Homage To Derek Jarman
Robin Rimbaud 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 Derek 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.2014 - on the 20th anniversary of the passing of Derek Jarman and this reissue Robi…
Early Electronic & Tape Music
**Historically important pieces documenting John Cage's early electronic and tape practice** "Although John Cage occasionally worked in large, sophisticated studios - for example, when he composed Fontana Mix in 1958 - his approach to electronic and tape music was often uncomplicated, makeshift, and pragmatic, employing simple tabletop devices: tape machines, phonograph cartridges, contact microphones, record players, portable radios, etc. He developed a soundworld that was utterly new, r…
The SalMar Construction
The SalMar Construction is an amazing large music synthesis engine conceived and constructed in the early 1970's by a composer for use by a composer. These unreleased recordings were made at IRCAM in Paris in 1983. It illustrates the power that an electronic composition can achieve when the composer arrives at a true synergy with his synthesizer.
This LP represents a significant performance by Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995) on his unique instrument, the SalMar Construction. Under developm…
Electronic Explorations from his Studio + the BBC Radiophonic Wo
Outstanding reissue, part of Sub Rosa's Early Electronics series. During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, requiring a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronic work to speak clearly to the l…
Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Works 1978-2000
Another installment in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series: selected works, including previously unreleased material, recorded between 1978 and 1980 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music. André Stordeur was born 1941. His musical career started in 1973 with a tape composition for the soundtrack to Gordon Matta-Clark's film Office Baroque. Later in the 1970s, he participated in avant-garde music ensemble Studio voor Experimentele Muziek, founded in Antwerp, Flanders, by Joris de Laet. S…
Eternal Rhythm
2016 repress. Gatefold exact repro reissue of Don Cherry's classic Eternal Rhythm Group, recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival, 1968. An amazing line up of: Cherry (cornet, gender and saron [gamelan], flutes), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Eje Thelin (trombone), Bernt Rosengren (tenor sax, oboe, clarinet, flute), Sonny Sharrock (guitar), Karl Berger (vibes, piano, gender), Joachim Kühn (piano, prepared piano), Arild Andersen (bass), & Jacques Thollot (drums, saron, gong, bells, voice). T…
Deconstructing hank
I wanted to share Hank with a world that was unfamiliar with him and unable to grasp the despair, hurt and loneliness that he lived, unable to absorb the words or the sentiment, unable to hear the words, “Like a piece of driftwood on the sea, may you never be alone like me”. I asked Derek Rush if he would be interested in doing Hank Williams songs with me, he put them in a minor key and arranged them while I re-interpreted the melody and sang the words of Hank Williams, adding my g…
Music Vol.
Opening a sonic space that leads into delicate subconscious spheres, Ivan Pavlov aka CoH has created his most sophisticated work to date. MUSIC VOL. is a piece of gentle acoustic excitement. Evolving around concepts of silence and sound, each track reveals to the listener a different emotional chamber. The work generates a profound intimacy derived from the fact that "VOL." is meant literally; Pavlov places variations of volume and soft progressions of sound at the fore, inviting comparisons…
Neurochemie
'Neurochemie' is one of the most intriguing albums we've found on France's excellent Rotorelief label. It counts as part of ongoing research by Siegmar Fricke, a long-standing fixture of the European tape music scene who has collaborated with the likes of Maurizio Bianchi and Giancarlo Toniutti since 1985 (Siegmar Fricke started in 1981 making musique-concrete-experiments with magnetophones and shortwave-radio signals, recorded on various cassettes, followed by intense activities in th…
Ethnicities
Limited LP edition 'Ethnicities is an electro-acoustical scope of unreleased recordings of PACIFIC 231's post-industrial period. Successive and consecutive cuts were made until he put together the concept of the album as: pluri-cultural diversity of the sounds, tropical steams, exotic journeys & electronic man-made build-up manipulations, urban dins and industrial mazes, ' Ethnicities ' is a psychedelic and unexpected patchwork from PACIFIC 231.
Festin d'acier
Le Syndicat started its activity in Paris in 1982 and was founded by art students Ruelgo and Van Minh Lê. The goal of this association was to make extreme live noise performances. A year later, Le Syndicat tape label was created with help from Zorïn, painter, graphic designer and visual scientist. Their fascination for chaos, strength and violence was not motivated by provocation but by the sheer pleasure to manipulate noise material. That was the main difference between industrial…
Unstable
The involvement in the improbable challenge of a collaboration with another musical entity takes on its full meaning when the two characters have radically different personalities ! In 2001, the merger of Brume with the American project Bastard Noise could have seem surreal ! One works in the field of Musique concrete, and the others in what we can call Power electronics, making their own sound generators (DIY). The first album of this association materialised with a very successful CD! 2012… po…