PARASITING ON MUSIC II - R.O.T. (BE), KASPAR VON URBACH (CZ), RADIO ROYAL (CZ)
R.O.T. started as a twopiece in autumn 2000, the band quickly growed into a collective exploring sound in pride of 'free-music'. By bringing together a bunch of friends, musicians as well as non-musicians, R.O.T. took the shape of a mainly acoustic bigband introducing a lot of different sound sources (guitars, organs, wind instruments, percussion, objects, modified electronics, tapes etc...). Whereas R.O.T initially was mostly seen as a side project of the now defunct toss (remember their contribution on the first morc-comp?), today R.O.T. has become more of a regular band around core members Laurent Cartuyvels (Toss), Bram Borloo (Moysk, parktldog), Benjamin Franklin (Buffle), Floris Vanhoof (Dirk Freenoise) andChristophe Piette (Ysengrinus)
However, the bands recordings are still mostly jams, sometimes recorded in the middle of the night on an old farm in south-belgium, (like the ' avioth ' 12") at other times during a live-show - like the 'des lands' ep.
In their work the Prague noise-band Kaspar von Urbach focuses on an obstinate and deeply unnatural sound-mining: partly from things and devices originally designed for very different purposes and partly from musicial instruments, effects and processors that are broken, left-off, cheep, despised, uncorrectly used, crap etc. Accidental feedbacks, unintentional noise and other „enemies“ of musical process have become important factors of KvU‘s creative effort. In spite of frequent performing beside rock bands on rock stages, KvU have in the course of time quit the field of rock, but they do not oppose sudden invasions into the distant areas of pop, folk and country or silence. In november 2007 a d.i.y. label called KLaNGundKRaCH have been established to release KvU's records and records of related bands and projects. The members of KvU are also involved in other projects as RUiNU, k!amm, Head In Body and The Ruin of Ruins.
Radio Royal is a side-project of Petr Ference of Birds Build Nests Underground and Tomáš Procházka of B4. They call it themselves "easy-listening noise".
LINKS
http://morctapes.com/rot/index.html
http://www.kvu.klangundkrach.net
http://myspace.com/kasparvonurbach