Artist Detailed Info: Lost Robots

Lost Robots are an avant-rock band from London, fusing compact rock structures with abstract sound and free improvisation. Their most recent release is the CD "No" released on Orchestra Pit Recordings.

Formed in 2003, Lost Robots brings together four musicians, Mark Braby (drums, guitar, vocals), Andy Coules(bass, engineering), Clive Pearman (guitar, banjo) and Richard Sanderson (electronics, squeezebox, vocals), with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines, to work on a long distance project. Using free improvisation as as a starting point, the group have revisited their instant compositions and are constantly revising and reviewing their output. This audio cannibalism and deep listening has forged a strangely intense quality to their music.

The improvisation owes as much to the British and German brands of experimental rock as it does to non-idiomatic free improvisation, the results of wide collective listening. The influences of minimalism, post punk, free jazz are audible, but so are elements of bluegrass and traditional music.

Continually recording and documenting, then editing and refining the music, the results can range from an off-kilter take on driving rock music, through to more delicate and lengthy explorations of form and texture.

Mark Braby, Andy Coules, Clive Pearman and Richard Sanderson use the following instruments-

Voices, electronics, clarinet, banjo, melodeon, resonator guitar, autoharp, bass, acoustic guitar, drums, accordion, toys, laptop, water, sampler, percussion, objects, organ and electric guitars.

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