Martin Guevara: Guitar, Vocals, FX
Coni Duchess: Bass, Vocals
Alberto Diez: Drums, percussion

It was only 9 p.m. on opening night when I hit my first pay dirt of this year's SXSW in Austin: Capsula a kinetic trio from Bilbao, Spain - singer-guitarist Martin Guevara and bassist Coni Duchess, the band's founding couple, are originally from Argentina - who were supposed to be obsessed with the Velvet Underground (according to a newspaper preview) but were actually a high-velocity union of the Cramps and the Who, coated in corroded glam. Guevara attacked his guitar with a serious case of Pete Townshend, and drummer Alberto Diez was an improbable mix of Keith Moon and the Velvets' Maureen Tucker: flash with heartbeat. In the last song of the set, a furious space-out that sounded like the Who doing Pink Floyd's 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,' Guevara swallowed his mike Lux Interior-style and scraped his guitar strings along the edge of the stage. You don't get those visuals with Capsula's new album, Rising Mountains (BCore), but you get the idea - and everything I heard.

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Formed in 1997 to produce hallucination & enlightment, these live sexy animals on stage, hailing from the streets of South America mix their raw noise and sonic sounds in a hyper exciting live act.
Capsula is a band from Buenos Aires located in Bilbao. Their name is the spanish word for Capsule and derives from the David Bowie song Space Oddity (and The Jean Genie!)
Influenced by 60's South American psychedelic rock and garage and American alternative rock they have released eps, albums, played festivals, toured UK, Canada, USA, Europe and South America.
They recorded their first european release (and their fourth album), titled Songs & Circuits, in 2007 with Madrid-based indie label, Discos Liliput.
A review of Capsula's album Songs & Circuits describes it as 'Garage rock for the 21st Century'.
In 2008 & 2009 they played at SXSW.
2009. Rising Mountains new album OUT NOW!