24 June, 2009
Ong Ong #5 complete! (reception in Seattle!)

We live to adjust the tuning forks of the universe! Frequencies unite!
Ong Ong Fanzine Issue #5 is DONE.


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RECEPTION
Thursday, July 2
6:00-7:00 PM
Wall of Sound
315 E. Pine St.
Seattle, WA 98122
Refreshments, tunes provided
Artists in attendance!

Be the first on your block!
Imaginary Release party attenders can finally use their coupons!

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ISSUE #5 DESCRIBED
Two nesting booklets, 116 pages of art and non-fiction, a free CD of mostly private press LP rarities from the Ong Ong archives, interviews with Mississippi Records label person Eric Isaacson, record producer Scott Colburn, and musician/Dragon's Eye Recordings runner Yann Novak.

Also: Friendship bracelets, field hippies, piles of textiles, Czech new wave, 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!

Artists and writers in order of appearance: Lucy Morehouse, Davis Limbach, Ian Ferguson, Stefan Gruber, Ashby Collinson, Kevin Kogin, Mike Wilkes, Daniel Hukill, Elizabeth Matthews, Steve Arntson, Scott Davis, Tony Remple, Steve Quenell, Jean Smith, Chris Ando, Jason Miles, Bradley Lastname, Hazel Pine, Adam Beadle, David Farrell, Jeffrey Taylor, and John Adiar.

Each issue comes with a free CD curated by Scott Davis, LM, and Gary Franz (who also provided mastering and analog to digital conversion!).

And thanks to all those who attended our imaginary release party in January-- NO ADVERTISING!

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STORES IN
By July 12, Issue #5 will be stocked by Left Bank Books, Elliot Bay Books, Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill and Ballard) to mention a few.

Last Word Books in Olympia and Portland's Reading Frenzy, Mississippi Records, and Powell's Books will have their copies the last week of July. Please write us if you have another store suggestion or would like to order by mail. $8 postage paid!

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(((ONG)(ong)))
315 e. PINE st.
seattle, WA 98122
206-325-5001
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