Cong!, by Cong Josie

Cong!

by Cong Josie

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Janois ❤️ flamin’ loving your work! 🔥🐍 Thrilled to discover your music! Thanks! Favorite track: I Want a Man.

tamovezmin Waou, in the way of 80s legends VON LMO, Suicide, Whirlywirld...
Real surprise ! As a dark Duran Duran musical production collide with Alan Vega madness Favorite track: Margarita.

Bianca Valentino A post-punk rave-up of throbbing synths and rock n roll. A mash up of electronic body music, rockabilly-leaning vocals and punk attitude. Not for the faint of heart! Favorite track: Cong the Singer.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Limited Edition of 300 compact discs in gatefold sleeve.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Cong fever is spreading like wildfire and the first pressing of CONG! sold out pretty darn quick. So we put in an order for a new batch, this time on Cong's favourite colour Radioactive Green.

Limited edition transparent fluro green vinyl pressing of 300 units worldwide.
160g coloured vinyl. Housed in full-colour sleeve, with insert and black inner sleeve.

* Please note if you are a Melbourne local and would rather pick your order up directly from me. Shoot me an email at itrekkids@gmail.com and we can sort that out.

Includes unlimited streaming of Cong! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
For a limited time buy Cong! (fluro green vinyl) and the ultra limited REMIX album Cong On! together for $70

- if you would like to add the new Cong Josie/ Hearts & Rockets split single - Nocturne Baby/ The Promise 7" single add $10 ($80)

Just pay the relevant amount and leave me a message with the transaction :)

Includes unlimited streaming of Cong! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

ships out within 10 days

Purchasable with gift card

$70 AUD or more
Limited Edition colored Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited edition transparent hot pink vinyl pressing of 300 units worldwide.
160g coloured vinyl. Housed in full-colour sleeve, with insert and black inner sleeve.

Includes unlimited streaming of Cong! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

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1.	Flamin' Heart 03:10
2.	I Want a Man 03:43
3.	Margarita 04:05
4.	Leather Whip 04:04
5.	Persephone 05:15
6.	Cong the Singer 04:07
7.	Wedding Bells 05:00
8.	Snake Oil Speeder 03:47
9.	Wings of Jika Jika 01:55	buy track
10.	Lorelei 03:54

about

The debut album Cong! from Australia’s Cong Josie traverses a hyperreal world of romance and contorted machismo. It is an electric place of sleaze, smoke and gyrating hips. Below the throbbing synth rhythms, early rock'n'roll kicks simmer.

Cong Josie is the new project and alter ego of Nic Oogjes of Heat Beat ensemble NO ZU. The sound, soul and voice of Cong manifests from deep within Nicolaas’ psyche. Noir narratives are in constant friction with his personal confessions. It's a wild ride that is always mutating, merging influences like a half-remembered fever dream.

Rockabilly leaning vocals muscle into EBM club settings, which in turn are washed rose-tinted by crooning balladry. All of this is perfect prey for post-punk rave-ups that lead ultimately to swamp-synth stomping and end of world revelry and back again. Somehow though, no matter where Cong! struts, its vision remains singular, its world remains its own and a feeling of ease pervades the lot. There is no doubt that Cong's wink-and-a-grin humour provides the perfect refreshment to swallow this one big x-rated pill. It invites the listener in and welcomes them to be a part of it all. Meanwhile, it is his distinctive Aussie twang and the bricolage of historical influences on show that firmly place the LP in the here (Australia), the now (2021) and maybe even... a hyperreal parallel universe.

credits

released October 22, 2021

Performed by Cong Josie, Johnny Cayn, Katie Bishop, Cassandra Capri & Mona Reeves,

Written by Nicolaas Oogjes & Cayn Borthwick

Produced and mixed by Nicolaas Oogjes.
Music recorded in Brunswick, Coburg and Montmorency, Naarm/Melbourne

Mastered by Nao Anzai at Reel 2 Real Studio
Cover Art by Nick Mahady
Design by Luke Fraser/AHR+

Cong Josie acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways in what is now known as 'Brunswick', 'Coburg' and 'Montmorency' (where this release was recorded) and pays respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Always was always will be Aboriginal land.

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Cong Josie Melbourne, Australia

Cong Josie is the hedonistic alter-ego, (and anagram) of Nic Oogjes, (NO ZU). Nicolaas says inhabiting the Cong character allows him to plunge the depths of his psyche and drag forth what he finds there - beyond the real and into hyper-reality.