Ong Ong magazine #5
I think a good year in the making, Ong Ong #5 is finally out. The product of Lucy Morehouse (part time employee at Wall of Sound) and Scott Davis (Jive Time Records), this is their biggest issue yet comprising of two separate booklets, plus the usual CDR. It’s a real friendly fanzine style affair with lots of artwork and poetry among with the interviews with Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, Scott Colburn and Yann Novak. They sum up the other tidbit thus: “Bunnies, friendship bracelets, field hippies, piles of textiles, Czech new wave, alternate realities, tree tops, Hotel art installation, advice, mental institutions, instrument selection, rings of history, people holding hands in a circle, Scott Davis at 17, pure purr energy, tree tops, lotuses, relationships, perception, floating skulls, tripped out line quality, Halley’s comet, fire damage, father figures, show reviews, AFCGT caricatured, snow, ladies with long hair carrying stars, Rumi… coalescence!” A lot of things are very home paste up looking, with Eric Isaacson even handwritting his replies to typewritten interview question. A very DIY effort, the whole is contained in a screen printed cover and tied together with string. The bonus CDR culls 19 tracks from obscure vinyl releases, mostly private press items. The only names you are likely to have heard of before are Bruce Haack and Lightnin’ Hopkins as the rest heads into little known folk and children’s records with a few nice cosmic and prog numbers from Europe through into the middle.