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Coming up in June and Thereafter…

After a slew of concerts with OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE in March April May, next there will be 6 shows with L&S, playing their album WHEN THE VOWELS FALL live in Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

After the Summer, in September, there will be the release of BAZIP ZEEHOK’s album IN DE SLOOP DER TIJD, consisting of 10 instantly composed improv tracks by Gert-Jan Prins, Lukas Simonis and G.W. Sok. Watch out, all lyrics will be in Dutch!

In the fall there will be the release of IS THIS A HOUSE, a new album by G.W. Sok and Ignacio Córdoba (Spain/Denmark). Experimental live sessions, 8 in total, recorded at Worm Studios in Rotterdam in 2019. Due to serious reasons this release got “slightly” delayed, but here we are.

Both BAZIP ZEEHOK and G.W. SOK & IGNACIO CÓRDOBA are planning to organise various concerts to celebrate the arrival of the two albums.

Concerts, News

Concerts 2023

coming up … my concerts this year … with…

L&S
fri.. 23-06 Liège (B) – L’An Vert
sat. 24-06 Middelburg (NL) – Kaffee ‘t Hof
thu 29-06 Charleroi (B) – Le Vecteur
fri.. 30-06 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii
thu 06-07 Strasbourg (F) – t.b.a.
fri.. 07-07 Tournan-en-Brie (F) – La Ferme Electrique

TITTY TWISTER BIG BAND
fri.. 03-11 Toulouse (F) – Le Taquin (album release-party)

2024

L&S + Orchestra
wed 24-04 Juvisy-sur-Orge (FG) – Bords de Scene

. . . so far in 2023 . . .

G.W. SOK
01 • 14-01 Haarlem (NL) – Patronaat (Wigmania)
OMA
02 • 28-01 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii
ACTION BEAT
03 • 28-01 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii
G.W. SOK + TITI TABARNAC
04 • 04-03 Rotterdam (NL) – Slash Gallery (booklaunch)
L&S + Orchestre du GAM
05 • 12-03 Nancy (F) – Salle Poirel
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
06 • 17-03 Grenoble (F) – La Bobine
07 • 18-03 Martigny (CH) – Caves du Manoir
08 • 31-03 Nantes (F) – Stereolux (festival Variations)
09 • 08-04 Laval (F) – 6par4
10 • 14-04 Biarritz (F) – L’Atabal
11 • 15-04 Merignac (F) – Krakatoa
12 • 19-04 Paris (F) – La Marbrerie
13 • 20-04 Tilburg (NL) – Terminal (Roadburn festival)
14 • 21-04 Tilburg (NL) – Terminal (Roadburn festival)
15 • 22-04 Tilburg (NL) – 013 (Roadburn festival)
16 • 27-04 Liège (B) – KulturA
17 • 28-04 Brussel (B) – Botanique (Les Nuits)
18 • 20-05 Gent (B) – De Vooruit (Dunkfestival)

Concerts, Concerts 2009-2022

Concerts 2022

THE AND
01 • 10-02 Beauregard (F) – Le Presbyt’hair
02 • 11-02 Auch (F) – Le Migou
03 • 12-02 Montauban (F) – La Mémo
04 • 12-02 Toulouse (F) – Ches Bovy Dit Chanpagne
05 • 13-02 Loubajac (F) – Au Chantier
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
06 • 25-02 Périgueux (F) – Sans Réserve (cinéconcert)
MOONDOG H’ART SONGS
07 • 05-03 Valence (F) – Theatre de Valence
G.W. SOK
08 • 08-03 Amsterdam (NL) – De Nieuwe Anita (booklaunch)
OMA
09 • 14-04 New York NY (USA) – Saint Vitus
10 • 15-04 Philadelphia PA (USA) – The Pouch
11 • 16-04 Kent OH (USA) – Zephyr
12 • 18-04 Detroit MI (USA) – Trixies
13 • 20-04 Chicago IL (USA) – The Burlington
14 • 21-04 Cincinnati OH (USA) – Junkers Tavern
15 • 22-04 Columbus OH (USA) – Dirty Dungarees
SNIRP KOS SINOMIS
16 • 12-05 Amsterdam (NL) – De Tanker
MOONDOG H’ART SONGS
17 • 14-05 Lyon (F) – Opéra de Lyon
SNIRP KOS SINOMIS
18 • 30-06 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii
OISEAUX–TEMPÊTE
19 • 02-07 Lärz (D) – Fusion festival
G.W. SOK
20 • 21-08 Zeddam (NL) – Pieter’s Boerderij
21 • 21-09 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii (1)
dSCi
22 • 21-09 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii (2)
G.W. SOK
23 • 01-10 Amsterdam (NL) – Willem de Zwijgerkerk (Occii 30)
G.W. SOK + ZEA & XAVIER CHARLES
24 • 01-10 Amsterdam (NL) – Willem de Zwijgerkerk (Occii 30)
G.W. SOK + RIK VAN IERSEL
25 • 15-10 Deventer (NL) – Plato (Hier en daar een bui))
26 • 15-10 Deventer (NL) – Walhalla (uitgeverij Petrichor avond)
G.W. SOK + ZEA
27 • 15-10 Deventer (NL) – Walhalla (uitgeverij Petrichor avond)
L&S
28 • 20-10 Brest (F) – Mac Orlan (Atlantique Jazz Festival)
OISEAUX–TEMPÊTE
29 • 03-11 Lille (F) – Aeronef
30 • 05-11 Lorient (F) – L’Hydrophone (Festival les Indisciplinées)
31 • 17-11 Paris (F) – La Station Gare de Mines (record-launch)
32 • 18-11 Brest (F) – La Carène (Festival Invisible)
33 • 19-11 Rennes (F) – L’Antipode
34 • 23-11 Nancy (F) – L’Autre Canal
35 • 24-11 Nevers (F) – Café Charbon
36 • 25-11 Cognac (F) – Les Abattoirs 
37 • 26-11 Nîmes (F) – La Paloma
38 • 07-12 Le Havre (F) – Le Tetris
39 • 08-12 Joué-les-Tours (F) – Temps Machine 
40 • 09-12 Limoges (F) – CCM John Lennon
41 • 01-12 Angers (F) – Chabada 


News

L&S, the new album

The album is called WHEN THE VOWELS FALL

LP, CD, download, streaming…

Release-date September the 23rd, 2022
on Sérotine Records (F) and Tractor Notown (NL)
SR001 / NOT12

L&S is Anthony Laguerre, G.W. Sok, Jean-Michel Pires, Eric Thomas, together with L’Orchestre du GAM from Nancy, France.

Music by Anthony Laguerre (Myotis, Praag, Filiamotsa, …)
Words by G.W. Sok (Oiseaux-Tempête, ex-The Ex, Filiamotsa, …)

Guitars, drums, strings, horns and vocals.
Powerful and poetic things of beauty.

Distributed by:
Konkurrent – Netherlands
L’Autre Distribution – France
Code 7 – United Kingdom

Available via https://exmailorder.nl/shop/sok
and https://gwsok.bandcamp.com/

Lyrics

Jouw zomer daar

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De dagen hier zijn niets
de ketting van m’n fiets
een teentje waar een voet op stond
een beetje in de zon gezond
naar de blauwe lucht gekeken
die schapewolk geen boek gebleken
duf drankje op een dakterras
een boodschap in een plastic tas

De krant?
de tour?
de rest?
geen moer

Het glas nu leeg
het hoofd nog dol
en ook nog een of ander
hart op hol

Die nacht als in een droom vergleden
en dan? weer zien? misschien? een ander heden?
ondertussen wordt er heel geleidelijk geleden…
ik ben hier en jij verleden

tijd

is relatief

En toch,
het opent perspectief
ikke dinges
vinje lief

Jouw zomer daar
en de mijne hier,
maar lang niet slecht
zo’n allereerste kier

Lyrics

Up to eleven

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6-2-9
the cat drank wine
but will that be enough
before making love
to a porcupine

5–2-8
the dog ate cake
or is he lead by the nose
shouldn’t get too close
with a rattle-snake

4-2-7
here’s hog heaven
I’m heading for the bog
gonna kiss a frog
on cloud nine

ten

eleven

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Lyrics

This is the day

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Almost everything I have
used to make me feel ashamed:
my job, my flat, my friends,
and my name
the bicycle I got from my brother
the presents I got from my mother

But now that my father is hanging on,
hanging on five tubes,
and now that his hoarse mouth
speaks of adieu,
my shame squats in a corner
now my shame squats in a corner

He died the way he drove his car
calm, controlled, correct might be the word
looking bravely at the road
jumping the lights he considered to be illogically absurd

Absurd, how everything I still wanted to say
has slipped away under the wheels of time :
the presence of my mother
the bicycle of my brother
my father in his suit . . .

And so I say adieu
with everything I have
and I’m looking at the road
calm and controlled?
correct

(Based on a poem by Menno Wigman)

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