Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019

SUB ROSA INFO #134


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SUB ROSA INFO #134
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MAURICE LOUCA
Elephantine

LP
SRV474
- 400 copies limited orange vinyl + insert
- regular black vinyl + insert

On Elephantine, his new album released exclusively on
Sub Rosa as vinyl LP, Cairo-based Maurice Louca guides
a 12-piece ensemble through a 38-minute masterwork
that might best be described as panoramic. Elements of
free improvisation, Sun Ra's cosmic jazz, gorgeous Arabic
melody, trancelike African and Yemeni music and
minimalism meet in his wholly unique compositional
vision. Louca also makes vital contributions on guitar
and piano, and inspires stirring performances from
a global lineup.

RIYL:
Sun City Girls, 70s Miles Davis, Don Cherry,
Alice Coltrane, Tortoise

One of the most gifted, prolific and adventurous figures on Egypt's
thriving experimental arts scene, Louca has in recent years garnered
a global reputation through two previous solo albums and an expanding, evolving lineup of genre-defying collaborations. The Wire called his 2014 sophomore solo effort, Salute the Parrot, "remarkable music-dense,
driven and splashed with colour." In 2017, the self-titled debut by
Lekhfa, the trio of Louca and vocalists Maryam Saleh and Tamer
Abu Ghazaleh, was praised as an "edgy triumph" in The Guardian
and picked by BBC Radio 3's Late Junction as one of the very best
12 albums of 2017.

For Louca, 36, Elephantine serves as both the pinnacle of his
wide-ranging experience and a bold next step in his development
as a composer, arranger and bandleader. The celebrated Egyptian
visual artist Maha Maamoun has created the album cover art,
following her contribution to Salute the Parrot. "There was a blessed
thing about the process of making this record," Louca says of the
sessions, held last year in Stockholm and featuring the leader on
guitar and piano. "The dynamic between us musically but also as
people ...What these musicians delivered was really more than
I could ask for, Everyone played their hearts out on this record."

The music-from its pensive lulls through its stretches of hard-grooving
hypnosis and moments of avant-jazz catharsis-testifies to that rapport.
Best absorbed as a continuous performance, Elephantine's six
individually named tracks nonetheless present striking self-contained landscapes. "The Leper" entrances through a deft use of repetition
that Louca gleaned from cosmic jazz, African and Yemeni music and
other transcendental modal traditions. (Those who've followed Louca's
work might be reminded of the Dwarfs of East Agouza, his mesmeric
unit with Shalabi and Sun City Girls' Alan Bishop.)

"Laika" manages to evoke the minimalists, though on the combustible
terms of '60s and '70s free jazz; "One More for the Gutter," on which
Louca ingeniously pits one half of his ensemble against the other,
albeit in a synergistic way, mines similarly fiery terrain. "The Palm
of a Ghost" distills the band to a Cairo-rooted core, featuring stirring spontaneous melodies from oud player Natik Awayez, violinist Ayman
Asfour and vocalist Nadah El Shazly. The album's title track follows,
and it too blurs the border between composition and improvisation
with gorgeously atmospheric results. "Al Khawaga," with its colossal
ensemble riffs, beautifully dirty swing and impassioned blowing, is
an ideal finale.

Composed, arranged and produced by Maurice Louca
Tommaso Cappellato (Drums/Percussions)
Ozun Usta (Drums/Percussions)
Elsa Bergman (Bass)
Pasquale Mirra (Vibraphone)
Piero Bittolo (Baritone Sax/Alto Sax/Bass Flute)
Anna Högberg (Alto Sax)
Rasmus Kjærgård Lund (Tuba)
Isak Hedtjärn (Clarinet/Bass Clarinet)
Nadah El Shazly (Vocals)
Natik Awayez (Oud)
Ayman Asfour (Violin)
Maurice Louca (Guitar/Piano)

Executive producer: Sarah El Miniawy

Track Tiltes LP
side 1
01 The Leper
02 Laika
03 One More for the Gutter

side 2
04 The Palm of a Ghost
05 Elephantine
06 Al Khawaga

https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/maurice-louca.html

 













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LAST RELEASES + REPRINTS
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DAVID TOOP / PAUL BURWELL
Suttle Sculpture
LP SUBLOGOS03  Black vinyl
Never released before recordings from Logos
Foundation live sessions in Brussels, on May 7, 1977.
Studying esoteric organology, bioacoustics,
environmental sound, raw musics and anthropology,
Toop and Burwell were both fascinated by
phenomena like diffraction, propulsion, resonance,
projection, masking and heterodyning, and by
shamanism, the symbolically grounded agency of
shamanic drums, animal-becoming and noisy
costume, the shaman's capacity to enliven quotidian
space with the commotion of discarnate audible
entities from the spirit world. This recording is one
of the very few that conveys anything of what they
were about. 
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/sublogos/david-toop--paul-burwell.html
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OCTAVIAN NEMESCU
Gradeatia * Natural 1973-83
LP  SRV467  black vinyl + printed insert
On its 35-year anniversary, Octavian Nemescu's seminal
electronic album GRADEATIA-NATURAL is being re-issued
for the first time on vinyl in its complete form.
The first fully-electronic album to be released in Romania
under its culturally-repressive Communist regime.
Released in our Early Electronic series
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/early-electronic-music/octavian-nemescu-gradeatia--natural-1973-83.html
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OTTO SIDHARTA
Indonesian Electronic Music 1979-1992
LP SRV452 black vinyl
2CD SR452 black vinyl LAST COPIES
Fascinating and unreleased before music by
Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music.
Electronic compositions that integrated natural
sounds and urban sounds to this extent were
extremely rare at the time, which gives them
a unique form of intensity.
Released in our Early Electronic series
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/early-electronic-music/otto-sidharta.htm
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MERZBOW + OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA
Merzopo
2CD  SR472 SOLD OUT
MERZOPO is a collaborative 2-CD album of a Japan
noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and a
Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra based in Prague.
The first CD contains four compositions by Merzbow. 'Futaomote' means 'double face' and it was originally
titled 'Janus'. 'Yasugibushi' is a Japanese old folk song which was sampled. The second CD contains two live
tracks from Opening Performance Orchestra which
were played live in Tokyo and Prague in 2017 and
studio edited at the end of 2017 and the beginning
of 2018.
--- no melody no rhythm no harmony
     - this is fraction music ---
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/electronics/merzbow-merzopo.html
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HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA
Ajanma
2CD GRAN 8
Hariprasad became 80 the this year.
A good moment for this unique solo album of the
world legend bansuri master from India.
Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian virtuoso flautist
in the Hindustani tradition, born 1 July 1938 in
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/related-objects/hariprasad-chaurasia.html
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GILLES GOBERT
Chamber Electronic Music
CD SR466
trans, hybrid, crossbred, mongrel, whoreson, mixed,
unclean, intricated, blended, interracial, bastard,
harmonized, bouillabaisse, pandemonium, disorder,
bewilderment, muddled, disarrayed, tangled, distraction,
shambled, discorded, abashed, fuzzy, foggy, plaything,
rejoicing, orgasmic, thoughlessness, salad, undisciplined,
inordinate, coded, slanged, talk, privacy, nearness,
disobedient, unruly, confidante, imperfect, tainted, red.
a subtle mix of electronic composition
and contemporary touches.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/unclassical/chamber-electronic-music.html
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ACEZANTEZ
LP SRV450 LP
Rich textural pieces constructed from an unnotatable,
intricate interplay of percussive squeals, scrapes and
rattles, parched and pitchless woodwinds, and
dislocated keyboards On the evidence here,
Acezantez founded by the versatile Croatian composer
and instrumentalist Dubravko Detoni merit wider
recognition. Contemporary Croatian Masterpiece !
Originally released in 1977.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/acezantez.html
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BOOK OF AIR VVOLK
Se (in) de bos
CD SR444
LP SRV444 black vinyl + printed innersleeve
'Se (in) de bos' -  a slow paced 60 minute piece
performed by the 18 musicians 'vvolk' orchestra
composed by Stijn Cools.
'While getting deeper in the sound of vvolk, the
perception of time fades. It is astonishing how
improvised music can create such a timeless,
and calming experience for the listener.
Reference names:
Ryuichi Sakamoto ambient works, Biosphere
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/book-of-air-vvolk-se-in-de-bos.html
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JEAN C. ROCHE
BIRDS OF VENEZUELA
introduction by DAVID TOOP
LP SR411 black vinyl
Among many of his amazing records I came across
Jean C. Roché's Birds of Venezuela, beautifully
produced LPs of birdsong. I began to plan a trip to Amazonas,
to record the unearthly song of potoos and Yanomami shamanism. (David Toop)
Originally released in 1973
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/jean-c-roche-birds-of-venezuela.html
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PSEUDOCODE
Next One's Called
LP SRV458 Dark Green vinyl
This could be seen as the missing link
between Slaughter in Tiny Place and Europa -
third and final LP report.
All tracks are unreleased.
Recorded and mixed between 1980 and 1981.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/captagon-years/captagon-years-12--pseudocode.html
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BILL LASWELL / NJ BULLEN
Bass Terror
LP SRV459 Red vinyl
This recording is the dark side of Bill Laswell at the peak
of his art in 1995. He goes into a black trance. The piece
is not from a collaboration, it was designed alone, in his
studio in Brooklyn. Bass Terror Tetragrammaton is 
also to be linked to an alchemical process.
Nocturnal Crawl is a totally hypnotic piece, the first that
Nik Bullen designed outside of Napalm Death and Scorn.
The two pieces answer each other strangely, like two
sides of the same hidden anxiety.
The concept of this series was the confrontation of
electric guitars as the tutelary instrument, but here
and this time only, it came out of bassists confronting
each other. Never released before as LP vinyl.
Available here as a 400 copies limited red vinyl.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/bill-laswell--nicholas-james-bullen-bass-terror-lp.html
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UNIVERS ZERO
Ceux du Dehors
LP SRV403 Clear/red vinyl + insert
Third album (1981) by the Belgian band Univers Zero.
The title alludes to the short story of the same name
by H. P. Lovecraft; the players read the story in studio,
then proceeded to record the piece. A key release
for the band.
Ceux du Dehors sometimes suggests a darker and more complex version of the motorik minimalism of classical music contemporaries Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/univers-zero---ceux-du-dehors.html
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PAULINE OLIVEROS
Early Electronic Works 1959-66
2LP SRV460  sILVER VINYL LTD EDITION OF 400 COPIES LAST COPIES
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.
Released in our Early Electronic series
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/early-electronic-music/pauline-oliveros-early-electronic-works-1959-66-2lp.html
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OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
TARAB
CD  SR455  /  8 page digipack
2LP SRV455 / 4 page insert / download  LAST COPIES
limited edition red/white vinyl + download voucher
TARAB (in literary arabic - euphoria, secular exaltation, ecstasy), their sixth release on Sub Rosa, is the result
of live recordings captured during the AL-'AN! tour .
It is in symbiosis, in the fever and visceral experimentation of the
concert, that the musicians of OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE seek rapture.
Arranged in a semicircle, they invoke the elements and attempt the
catharsis, inviting the spectator to spiral with them, entwined in the
sonic explosions, finding beauty and peace in the spaces of improvisation
and elaboration. Marrying free-rock, organic electronics, traditional
instruments and unbridled electricity, TARAB, far beyond the vibrant
testimony, is a generous invitation to experience, to meditate and
to share.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/oiseaux-tempete--tarab.html
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PHIL MAGGI
Animalwrath
CD SR453
Phil Maggi is a composer, a vocalist and a film maker
from Belgium. Known as the lead singer of heavy-rock combo Ultraphallus, Phil Maggi develops an extensive
body of work as a solo musician for several years.
This new album Animalwrath is a combination of
his different forms of music, from ambient-drone, electro-acoustic, sampling and field recordings to free-jazz.
Phil Maggi has invited a few generous collaborators
(Oren Bloedow, Maja Jantar, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh,
Tom Malmendier, Gabriel Séverin and Ludovic Medery)
on these eight tracks inspired by Henry Corbin's
writings, Nico, Scott Walker and Traditional music.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/phil-maggi.html
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HASTINGS OF MALAWI
Visceral Underskinnings
LP  SRV449  Yellow vinyl
35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed
album Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth
the British dadaist group Hastings of Malawi have released
a new album - an epic sound poem entitled Visceral
Underskinnings. It is a 40 minute film without light that
reflects on the human condition, on modern society, on the
nature of telephony and electricity and an attempt to make
sense of the world in which we live that provides no answers.
It is a sound collage of diverse elements including the voices
of George Washington Johnson ('the whistling coon' 1846-1914)
and Dr Hastings Banda - the first president of Malawi.
It includes randomly generated computer music, voice
synthesis, recordings of cold war number stations, American
military sound weaponry and recordings of the some of the
many sound sculptures produced by Hastings of Malawi over
the last 30 years.
Hastings of Malawi produce sounds that sit in that grey area
where sound art and music meet but they reject both labels
and cannot be comfortably placed in either camp. This is not
an easy album to listen to but persevere and you may or
may not be able to decipher its meaning.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/hastings-of-malawi--visceral-underskinnings.html
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MAL
My Sixteen Little Planets
CD  SR432
LP SRV432 Black vinyl  LAST COPIES
40 years later the mythic album is at last available !
Lies of omission and appropriations.
The story of a magnetic tape that contained a trade secret.
Four decades after its release (on Orh, 1975), Inventions for Electric
Guitar, the solo debut by Ash Ra Temple guitarist Manuel Göttsching,
is now a classic, an undisputed worldwide reference. This album was
made using only an electric guitar and a simple 4-track tape recorder.
So was the challenge, and so was its impact. Göttsching recorded it in July-August 1974 in Berlin, after a sudden technical revelation. The
original LP sleeve had the following printed on its back: Manuel
Göttsching (guitars only). Manuel played his guitar and used a 4 track
TEAC A3340, Revox A77 for echoes, WahWah pedal, volume pedal, Sola Sound Fuzz, Schaller Rotosound and Hawaiian steel bar.
The reaction was unanimous: this was a significant innovation,
in terms of both technique and creativity. However, there are little-known facts to this case. In early 1974, Göttsching's label received a tape sent by M.A.L. - same design, same configuration, almost the same tracks. This is known by only a handful
of experimental musicians from the Charleroi area. M.A.L. aka Daniel
Malempré is the actual inventor of this technique, which Göttsching
reproduced a few months later. Given the above, I suggest that we listen to both albums. As doubts are removed, the truth sets in, forty years later. Here's hoping that this will ease  the deep disgust that made M.A.L. leave his guitar untouched for so long.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/captagon-years/mal.html
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MUSIC FROM YEMEN ARABIA
Sanaani, Laheji, Adeni and Samar
Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer
2CD SR448  digipack + 12 page booklet
2LP SRV448 + color insert
These songs originate from the city of Sanaa,
the sheikdom of Lahej and the port of Aden.
Samar is the delicious, luxury time when people
gather for relaxation, refreshment and music.
This record contains oudh playing, percussion
and singing from Yemen. The three Kawkabani
brothers sing traditional poems and play oudh (lute),
double drums, tambourine and, occasionally,
the kanoun (zither). They were recorded in Sanaa
in 1973. The oudh player Hassan al Zabeede and
his double drum playing brother sing songs in
the Lahej style and were recorded in Taez in 1973.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/unclassical/sylvain-chauveau--chant-1450-renaissance-ensemble.html
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BAUDOUIN DE JAER
4 Geomungo Sanjo Vol II
CD  SR470 4 page digipack + 16 page booklet
New compositions for ancient Korean instrument:
the Geomungo.
Follow up to the high acclaimed Compositions
For Geomungo and Gayageum (2012).
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/le-coeur-du-monde/baudouin-de-jaer---4-geomungo-sanjo-vol-ii.html
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JEAN-LUC FAFCHAMPS
H1KhH2WM (Du seuil), a Five-letter Sufi Word
CD  SR445 4 page digipack + 20 page booklet
Third chapter in the Sufi Word's series.
LISTEN
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/unclassical/jean-luc-fafchamps-h1khh2wm-du-seuil-a-five-letter-sufi-word.html
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