Full-length LP from the duo of Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse (last seen alongside Pete Nolan as two-thirds of Spectre Sports) who use keyboard, harmonica, vocals, guitar and tape effects to generate repeat-percussive/keyboard dirge jams that touch on cosmonauts as varied as This Heat, Magical Power Mako, Terry Riley and Royal Trux circa Twin Infinitives. There are some very beautiful passages here that seem to reconfigure the blues as a hermetic, psychedelic form that communicates through endless reconfigurations of three primal chords, given further Kosmiche nuance via smears of delay, time-staggered accumulations of notes and the kind of gorgeous outer-space hymnal phrasing previously at the service of Sun Ra and James Ferraro's Teotihuacan. First pressing of 500 copies with silkscreened covers. Highly recommended.

Vinyl version: "Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts [think Harold Budd] for guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse to cut through, whittle and lay waste to. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, a lazy stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian-and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, did I mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album? So is there a blues angle to it? Yeah, but you've got to bury yourself in it or dig your way in. Come out stinking if you want." - HM.

Terrific two cassette overview that bundles a ton of OOP releases from the duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho, also of Blues Control. Watersports is dedicated to minimal devotional music using simple synth, bells, gongs and and percussion to generate a music that has a great Zen simplicity combined with a ton of mysterious depth. Somewhere between JD Emmanuel and Go Hirano, this is lonely music for zoned meditations that is extremely effective. This nicely packaged double cassette set includes their releases on Not Not Fun, Arbor, White Tapes, Breaking World Records, Hank Recordings, and Ore Records plus a live performance on WFMU. Comes with a download coupon. A magical, deep-listening set. Recommended.

Nicely done reissue of what was originally a cassette on Fuck It Tapes, this time around with a cardstock outer case, double-sided silkscreened J-card and a gold ink insert: duo guitar/tapes and harmonica/piano jams from Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse that generate celestial, watery progressive/psych stuns and beautiful puffs of minimal melody while drums churn like flinty boulders wrestling in a deep bucket. Some of the piano sounds a little like Michael Rother's Neu work, and there's a nice lost/teutonic feel to much of this muzzy beauty. Edition of 175 copies, already sold out at source. 

40 minute live session recorded for WFMU with the duo of Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse playing deep, orchestral psychedelic drone works cut-up with almost Ferraro-esque FM rock piracy and cheap celestial keyboards complete with slow vocal exhalations. Beautifully confusing. Comes with silkscreened J-cards. 

Latest instalment in RVNG’s Frkwys series of collaborative releases: 08 sees the NY duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho hook up with Laraaji aka Edward Larry Gordon, best known for his 1980 album Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance for Brian Eno’s ambient series of LPs. Laraaji plays an electronically modified zither w/a spectral aspect that is very appealing. This is an inspired pairing, with Laraaji bringing out Blues Control’s most phantom, otherworldly side across a series of slow-moving vistas that combine the hallucinatory tonal/rhythmic depth of Javanese gamelan with translucent exotica and creeping, barely-there synth stylings.  Aspects of Jon Hassell, early choral/devotional music, Mirror/Andrew Chalk (especially in the distant piano sounds), even Organum cohere around wraiths of zither and floating flowers planted deep in haunted rainforests where snatches of vocals appear deep in the mix and the occasional single note rises to the surface with all of the magisterial slow-mo beauty of Loren Connors. By far and away my favourite Blues Control jam to date. Comes with a download card with bonus tracks. Highly recommended!

Latest instalment in RVNG’s Frkwys series of collaborative releases: 08 sees the NY duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho hook up with Laraaji aka Edward Larry Gordon, best known for his 1980 album Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance for Brian Eno’s ambient series of LPs. Laraaji plays an electronically modified zither w/a spectral aspect that is very appealing. This is an inspired pairing, with Laraaji bringing out Blues Control’s most phantom, otherworldly side across a series of slow-moving vistas that combine the hallucinatory tonal/rhythmic depth of Javanese gamelan with translucent exotica and creeping, barely-there synth stylings.  Aspects of Jon Hassell, early choral/devotional music, Mirror/Andrew Chalk (especially in the distant piano sounds), even Organum cohere around wraiths of zither and floating flowers planted deep in haunted rainforests where snatches of vocals appear deep in the mix and the occasional single note rises to the surface with all of the magisterial slow-mo beauty of Loren Connors. By far and away my favourite Blues Control jam to date. Comes with a download card with bonus tracks. Highly recommended!