Summer Days

OTTO VON RUGGINS And KONGRESS Will Boggle Your Mind With Four Psychedelic Brainbreakers Annex Four Psych-O-Delic Videos

Posted on by JL

5 July 2023

Artist: KONGRESS

Who: The musical project of 60s survivor Otto von Ruggins.
An experimental, New York based, act being around for light-years,
mixing Space-Goth-Tribal-New-Wave rock and other me(n)tal bangs.
Think legendary eccentrics Devo fooling around with avant-garde
freaks The Residents.

The mysterious Kongress unity returns with a new EP baptized SUMMER DAYS.
Sometimes I wonder if this project is 4 real and is not some sci-fi creation of Space
Odyssey maestro Stanley Kubrick pretending it’s human. Anyway, listen/watch and
have a Close Encounter of the Third Kind experience after the melancholia of the title
track.

– SUMMER DAYS –

A ’Sodom & Gomorrah’ video according to Otto von Ruggins‘ wife and founding
member of Kongress, actually pays homage to the Largest Art Parade in America,
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Summer pop fever in colorful motion from the
past, when there was still hope.

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Louis Armstrong

– FUTURE LOOP –

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

“Money is the root for all evil
It’s the cause of most wars
Tap into the FutureLoop and prepare
Let Religion provide you with Civilty
It’s time for the New 10 Commandments”

This a techno banger for spaced-out trips
on Judgment Day and to start all over again
afterward from zero with 10 new rules.

– SUGAR DADDY –

A razzle-dazzle synth–missile with a whirlwind
of rappin’ samples. Beastie Boys fight again
for our right to party.

– ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE –

Rapid-eye-movement surreality on film with lyrics
fed into ChatGPT with Mind-Blowing results.

Make America Intelligent Again.
And fuck Trump, of course

All together streaming on Spotify


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KONGRESS: Website Instagram

OTTO VON RUGGINGS Goes Back To The Future With ‘SUMMER DAYS’

Posted on by JL

18 August 2022

Artist: KONGRESS

Who: The musical project of 60s survivor Otto von Ruggins.
An experimental, New York-based, act being around for light-years,
mixing Space-Goth-Tribal-New-Wave rock and other me(n)tal bangs.
Think legendary eccentrics Devo fooling around with avant-garde
freaks The Residents.

Track/video clip: SUMMER DAYS


This year was the 40th Parade

OTTO VON RUGGINS about the song and its video clip: “I wrote Summer Days a lifetime ago, in 1967, thinking it was in The Rascals style. I came across the lyrics recently & after playing the old music, I figured it needed some new music for today, which I had created in the Spring during my break at work using my iPad. Enter Summer Days & my concept of the most familiar iconic event that ushers in the Summer – Coney’s Island Mermaid Parade I have been videotaping these parades for over 30 years & this video is the pick of my best footage. As I worked on the video, I felt as though I had choreographed the participants to dance to my music & then captured it with my camera.”

Expect summer melancholia in sound and vision, and in thoughts. Gently weeping
guitars and psychedelic synth sketches move at the slo-mo speed of the parade
and vice versa. And Otto‘s wistful vocals complete the sepia-colored memory.

Back to the future sentiments all the way.

Enjoy the parade here…

OTTO VON RUGGINS: Facebook – Soundcloud