Show to See: Blues Control @ Holy Mountain 2/9/13

Due to unfortunate circumstances (the main one being that I'm stuck in San Antonio for the next few months with little opportunity or ability to go to other places), I can't make it to see all the bands I want that constantly flow in and out of Austin. However, that doesn't mean if you live in Austin, you should miss the bands I have to, especially the likes of Blues Control. Blues Control are an excellent, deeply unclassifiable experimental duo who's live shows are a sight to behold as they recreate and twist their compositions before your eyes. See their latest video for "Opium Den/Fade to Blue" for the smallest taste of what one will see live. They'll be playing at the newly opened, 200 capacity Holy Mountain on February 9 with fellow experimentalists Same Sack, Thousand Foot Whale Claw, and Expensive Shit. This will, without a doubt be one of the crazier, more cerebrall shows you will see in the coming months, so don't miss it.

Video: Blues Control-Opium Den/Fade to Blue

Blues Control make a strand of deeply hard-to-classify music. A deconstructed mixture of kroutrock, drone, spaced-out electronics, ambient new age, free-jazz, along with tons of other bits and piece of whatever other musical genres they can get their hands on. When you listen to last year's Valley Tangents, it's a bit hard to believe you are listening to the same band on each track, the genre and style hopping being so great, yet threaded in such a way that Blues Control essence manages to be there in every track. Needless to say, when they decided to make a video for "Opium Den/Fade to Blue", it followed an equal amount of progression and 'where did that come from?' styling. The video is a mash of '90s digital art, VHS effects, and the faceless guy from "Spirited Away". Yet some how, some how the video never dives into incomprehensible territory, instead being a trippy, visual representation of the track, the steady progression and twisting the visuals mirroring "Opium Den/Fade to Blue" very spot on.



Links:

Blues Control's Facebook
Buy Valley Tangents here, from Drag City