Yes, the key vanished, but I don't know if he was holding a key in the hand to begin with. For myself, I think Aickman wrote some of the greatest ghost stories of the 20th century, but also produced some real clunkers, fiction in which his motifs and preoccupations are tedious or even offensive rather than chilling or psychologically potent. All I know is that he did it beautifully. He's setting that up.".Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. That tends to be what you do as a fiction writer, reading fiction. A stage magician produces coin, takes coin, demonstrates coin vanished. If you're a writer, it's a bit like being a stage magician. I think that Aickman is one of those authors that you respond to on a very primal level. His sensibility either appeals or it doesn't. It's difficult to describe the nature of his work, or its likely effect on any reader. Aickman called his work "strange stories," which is as good a label as any for the elusive and allusive feel of his fiction. Whether it's a business trip to Bedfordshire or a vacation to Belgium, Aickman's characters leave home and encounter ghosts and other mysterious phenomena. Seven of the eight stories in Sub Rosa features some form of travel. Therein lies its strength.This quote from Louis-Ferdinand Celine, used as the epigraph for Robert Aickman's novelette "Never Visit Venice," could also serve for the entire collection in which it appears. Everything else is a snare and a delusion. Visit the Sub Rosa website is a good thing it stimulates the imagination. There's also "Bill Laswell: Oscillations" with remixes featuring Nico, Scanner, Ui, Endemic Void, Atom Heart." Voices 1913-1974" featuring James Joyce, Antonin Artaud, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Julian Beck, Ma¥akovski, Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters. The record features remixes by Autechre, To Rococo Rot, dj Olive, Freform, Scanner, Neil Harvey. "Subsonic 6 which is Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur jr) and Rudy Trouvé (ex-dEUS, Kiss My Jazz), "End of Utopia" featuring dj Spooky, dj Wally, dj Low and dj Grazhoppa. If you could pick anyone you like, what musician (or group) would be on your Sub Rosa label?Ĭan you give a small list of the artists signed to Sub Rosa? What would be the best starter? We have no specific sound, just a way to approach the sound." How would you define the Sub Rosa sound? And has it changed over the years? "Our site comes soon.for us it's mainly a way to exchange information. How does the internet influence your label? I noticed your have a website, though still under construction. We also admire Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce and Influence of William Burroughs and Gilles Deleuze. "We are certainly more inspired by books or films than music itself. Also the label Asphodele from Brooklyn."Īny other influences (besides recordlabels) that inspire you? But they explore only one direction - which is fine - even if our politic Located in New York and releases records by Cage, Feldman, Wolff. "Basically I like the labels which release risky things, Noise and spoken word records.Mode is fine. Then we contact the possible musicians and try to keep a coherence."Īre there any recordlabels that you admire? "We listen, we receive demos, we also organize and create our own themas. So how do you find new artists? Do they approach you or is it the other way around? And two days later this man was on the phone." "For us, each record, each production is an experience in itself. It is kind of a flux."Įver had any weird and/or funny experiences while releasing records? Now we have made more than 250 productions. We started by releasing one vinyl record, then another record 6 months later and so on. How did you finance your first recordrelease? "The end of the eighties with a spoken word record by William S. It's named after the English Sience Fiction film of 1958." Our second label, which is the Electronica department of Sub Rosa, is called "Sub Rosa is Latin and translates to between us, under confidence. Is there a story behind the name Sub Rosa? Fred Walheer, Gauthier Keyaerts and myself, Guy-Marc Hinant." Tekst: Nathalie Claeys Publicatiedatum: 02 juni 2000įirst of all who are the human creatures behind Sub Rosa? And that vision ranges from Electronic music to spoken word. "Just a vision of things to do", he replied. We asked Guy-Marc, one of the guys behind the label, if there is a Sub Rosa sound. Sub Rosa Although located in Brussels, Sub Rosa thinks far beyond its Belgian borders.
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