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Unreleased tracks Sugar Daddy & FutureLoop are new recorded tracks with videos to be released later this year as an EP with Summer Days, which was the last single by Kongress.

Summer Days was released on 8/22/22 by Tik Tok via their US.soundon.global distribution service, but this is more than just a recording - the is a groundbreaking release of what Coney Island Mermaid Parade observers have been seeing over the last 30 + years, most of which I have been videotaping. This is MUST SEE VIDEO!

Kongress began in 1975, but thrived with the late, great Madgician - Geofrey Crozier conjuring up spirits + VON LMO, Master of Reverse Trapology, Robert Crash/Renate Twin Towers of Teutonic Guitar Power, Frank Stokes stabilizing the Bass Bottom and Master of the Unheard of, Otto von Ruggins, Saving the Musick World with his Keyboard Wizardry! Next Femme Fatale Marilyn followed Geofrey (after VON LMO left). The format went from 30 minute improvs to two minute outbursts. Punk Magazine’s John Holmstrom once declared Kongress to be, “The Most Dangerous Band in the World!”

The infamous band appears in the tome ‘No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980’ by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Watch for a Kongress DVD of the epitome of a Halloween Show - Max’s Kansas City, NYC -1976 (taped by Bob Gruen) and 1977 (taped by Rod Swenson).

Included on their 2020 track ‘The Ugly American’ with Otto are Phil Faconti on Screaming Guitar & Dave Eggar on World Class Electric Cello. Their 2021 single - Running With The Wolves - features Sky Saxon’s Jim Morrison dead ringer vocals + A Closed Caption featured video - Click (CC) to activate the lyrics. In April ’22, inspired by events in Ukraine, Kongress released the single NuSense with a video & their latest release in August ’22 is Summer Days with amazing video from decades of Mermaid Parades, all videos visible at YouTube.com/ottovr