Release date 31 March 2008
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After the epiphany of An Aural Symbiotic Mystery by Charlemagne Palestine and Tony Conrad this is the first solo work by Charlemagne on Sub Rosa.

From Etudes to a Cataclysms is one of the most important to date. An impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on ... [more]

Release date 22 March 2008
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"The material on this "Sound Unbound" mix is an audio essay that links artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp , Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antonin Artaud and Allen Ginsberg. It also foregrounds some issues that I think the 21st century really needs to understand - art isn't about objects ... [more]

Release date 10 March 2008
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If, out of these fourteen female singers recorded in the 1920's, some have managed to put food on the table for a while, none became famous or rich, and most remain completely unknown.

What can be said about a singer whose entire work fits on a single-sided 78rpm record? What circumstances ... [more]

Release date 7 January 2008
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Here I am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. How can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? For this volume, I want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's 'Points, ... [more]

Release date 30 October 2007
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Recorded in Mirik Monastery (in the northeastern India) with the total collaboration of Bokar Rimpoche - all the pieces were edited by the filmmaker Guy Maezelle

Bokar Rimpoche -

Acknowledged as a Great Master of Tibetan Buddhism, Bokar Rimpoche (1940-2004) devoted his whole life to meditation. Having fled Tibet in 1959, ... [more]

Release date 12 October 2007
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These rare pieces are taken from Bob Hite's fabulous collection of 78rpm records. A historical collection that helped, in its own way, save from oblivion the rural bluesmen who have dropped out of the scene decades ago and made possible their reintegration to history. Everyone is now entitled to hear ... [more]

Release date 25 September 2007
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This box set reissues the complete recordings of Yitshak Jacques Zaludkowski (Ben-Baruch)
published on 78-rpm picture discs by "Saturne" in 1950. Nine discs were recorded under René Cloërec's direction, the other two under Léon Algazi's. Also included are "Yehi rotson" and "Shabes baym shalesh-shudes", two songs found on a non-picture disc ... [more]

Release date 7 September 2007
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A distant place, far up north, Canada, Alaska, or even further, far away from here. The earth: somewhere on its way around the sun, but we don't know where we are. We find ourselves in the snow. And the only thing we know is: summer always sees other places first.

Yet ... [more]

Release date 5 September 2007
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From Alireza Mashayekhi to Ata Ebtekar/Sote, the quantum leap of unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till today. Two Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create something radically new, who travel around the world to finally live and work in their country - ... [more]

Release date 28 August 2007
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The duet of Ruth and Xavier is magical: not in the childish sense, of chubby fairies with magic sticks. The magic of Winter Family reminds you of dark forests, in which unknown creatures lead you to wild paths, light and shadow deceives you and fear controls you, together with curiosity ... [more]

Release date 15 June 2007
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Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh on a Bösendorfer 225, during a sunny day.

"My past experience was not to 'meddle' with the material, but use my concentration as a guide to what might transpire. I mentioned this to Stockhausen once when he had asked me what my secret was. 'I don't push ... [more]

Release date 21 May 2007
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"The idea of bringing together Rencontres fortuites, Didascalies and Tautologos III - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the Boendael Chapel in Brussels. A few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary Brème studios, having to ... [more]

Release date 21 May 2007
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I Could Never Make That Music Again is a sound collage crafted out of interviews, where artists, musicians, DJs and sound makers talk openly about their work, their visions, their hopes, their moments of doubts and their regrets in a loosely constructed narrative.

Even though most of the people interviewed here ... [more]

Release date 15 May 2007
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Autumn 1982, Brixton, London, Brion Gysin, the eternal accomplice of William Burroughs , renews the methods of performance by reciting texts, hastily brought together.

Most of the texts were written upon meeting Burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up. The influence that Brion Gysin has had ... [more]

Release date 10 May 2007
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Luc Ferrari takes out an old score, Tautologos III, to record it at La Muse en Circuit in the summer of 2005. The "score" is actually a set of three rules:

1. Each musician freely decides on a theme an length of silence to be repeated for 21 minutes.

2. Each musician ... [more]

Release date 26 February 2007
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This piece is a work in progress, evolving from the numerous recordings Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas.

"High-precision microphones are placed directly on the surface of Judd's "specific objects." They capture a subtle combination of sounds resonating through the artwork and ambient ... [more]

Release date 8 December 2006
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Quellet's music is not really outsider sound art, but it shares strong similarities with it. It explores a debarred universe almost impossible to escape. A minute, albeit extreme, exploration of sound (particularly through saturation), mystical discourse and excesses. However, the composer is also pictured as a regular guy living ... [more]

Release date 27 November 2006
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Volume 2 of the ultimate collection of archives of the avant-garde in Belgium. In total, clocking 220 minutes of rare documents published in 3 parts... Volume 1 was released back in 2005 and 3 is planned for future release.

In this second volume you can hear rare documents including ... [more]

Release date 20 November 2006
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This CD deals with two sides of the group. First is its deeply lyrical vein, with summits like See Red and Lights Of April , tracks that have almost never been included on "best-of" projects, despite the fact that they represent some of the most moving songs ... [more]

Release date 18 October 2006
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"In 2003, I composed Intimate Rituals XI (a work for viola) using the tape of the pre-recorded sound icons with a viola in a spectral scordatura, a very special tuning-chord; the open strings simulate the 3rd, 4th, 13th and 20th harmonics of an F monesis, giving C half-sharp, F half-sharp, ... [more]