I’m probably really late on this, but I’m not really a bandwagon person anyway.
Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho of Watersports, has always been rather hit or miss for me from what I had heard from them. It seemed time to really give them a go last week when I saw Puff at Ear X-tacy for the try-me price of $5. I love zone out times, but moments on Puff are almost too zone out for me. However, there are some real flashes of brilliance, as well.
“Always on Time” is straight from space. It’s the sound emitting from the SETI experiments. Large, cavernous waves of radiation and solar wind flush around a simple, rarely changing Neu-esque piano melody with the reverb turned up all the way and dripping in condensation for 12 big minutes. The harmonica on “Behind the Skies” is the only indication that Blues Control is going to attempt to live up to its name, a mid-tempo, fuzzed-out burner remiscent of Lightning Bolt on purple drank (perhaps there’s a connection between Ride the Skies and Behind the Skies?). Actually, and not to self-promote but, “Behind the Skies” reminds me of a song I recorded in Chicago last winter called “Consumer Confidence in Christ is Down” on my Meridian Signals project. I’m just sayin’.
R-O-C-K in the U-S-A!!!11
MP3 :::
Blues Control - Always on Time
Blues Control - Behind the Skies
wow! i’ve just been turned on to and rockin’ blues control this weekend myself. sometimes i wonder how many people in the world are actually listening to the same thing as me, at the same time. Especially when it’s something obscure - which, of course, it usually is.
anywho - you gotta check that last cut on Puff, “Call Collect,” and their self titled full length on Holy Mountain, also released in ‘07 is even better. Nice find! Blues control is the new jazz for my money.