Track 1: When I hear
Track 2: Alina Ann Elena
Howie Reeve – bass
G.W. Sok – voice
OWN 01
Don’t forget…
Last April the new album of Moe Staiano’s SURPLUS 1980 COLLECTIV ENSEMBL was released on Musique à la Coque… “Forget All This” features vocals and lyrics by yours truly.
In August we will play two shows in California USA: on the 23rd at The Uptown in Oakland, and on the on the 24th at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco.
In August, from the 1st till the 18th, ACTION BEAT and I will be touring the Westcoast of the USA.
I recorded two songs together with Howie Reeve for his new vinyl album “Cracks”. The songs, “When I Hear/Alina Ann Elena” are also available as a digital download single on Tractor Notown (cat.no. OWN 01) via gwsok.bandcamp.com.
In September I will be recording a new album with Nicolas Lafourest (guitar) and Olivier Mellano (guitar) as CODDIWOMPLE.
In October OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE will release their new album “From Somewhere Invisible, followed by a tour in October/November. Special gusest are Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra).
NOT 10
Side A: Cerebrum bum (King Champion Sounds)
Side B: We don’t understand the words (Surplus 1980)
G.W. Sok – vocals
Ajay Saggar – guitar, electronics
Oli Heffernan– bass
Mees Siderius – drums
Discography 2009-Now
SINGLES + ALBUMS
coming up…
OMA – album t.b.a.
2020
Zoikle – Zoikle (LP)
Coddiwomple – The walk & other stories (LP)
2019
Oiseaux-Tempête – From somewhere invisible (LP/CD)
Howie Reeve & G.W. Sok – When I hear/Alina Ann Elena (digital 7″)
Surplus 1980 Collectiv Ensembl – Forget all this (CD)
King Champion Sounds/Surplus 1980 – International static split (7″)
2018
King Champion Sounds– For a lark(LP)
Oiseaux-Tempête – Tarab (2xLP/CD, live)
2017
Action Beat – The world is fucked but I feel fine (LP)
King Champion Sounds – Fool throttle/Debby one day (7″)
Action Beat/Silent Front – Lucky her (split 7”)
2016
King Champion Sounds – To awake in that heaven of freedom (2xLP)
G.W. Sok – Listen to the painters (CD)
2015
The And – Straw/Town of stone (7″)
The And – s.t. (10″)
Cannibales & Vahinés – Songs for a free body (CD/LP)
Filiamotsa – Like it is (CD/LP)
The Ex – At Bimhuis 1991-2015 (2CD)
Gran Kino + Sarasvati – Ballades (CD)
Cannibales & Vahinés – Mirror man/November night (7″)
Two Pin Din & G.W. Sok – Gifts, milk and things (2×7″)
King Champion Sounds – Songs for the golden hour (10″)
2014
Action Beat + G.W. Sok – A remarkable machine (2×10″)
2013
King Champion Sounds – Different drummer (LP)
2012
Cannibales & Vahinés – N.o.w.h.e.r.e (CD)
2011
Zoikle – Illusies 1+2 (7″)
2009
The Ex – 30 (2LP/2CD)
Detective Instinct – #3 (7″)
GUEST-APPEARANCES
2019
Howie Reeve – Cracks (LP)
0> When I hear + Alina Ann Elena
2018
Club Cactus – 5 (LP)
0> Extrêmophile + Rue de Seine
Christian Olivier – After avant (CD)
0> Shoot + Putain putain
Come Holy Spirit – Asters and disasters (LP)
0> Essayons + Elephantine
Oma – s.t. (KZ)
0> Aberfan + Hospital
2017
Luca Sigurtà – Grunge (CD)
0> Sewed up
Oiseaux-Tempête – Unworks & rarities (LP/CD)
0> The strangest creature on earth
2015
L’Etrangleuse – Memories to come (LP/CD)
0> Caged bird
Oromocto Diamond – Opononi (CD)
0> Osorio
Oiseaux-Tempête – Ütopiya? (LP/CD)
0> Ütopiya/On living
2014
Detective Instinct – Black floral (LP)
0> ABC & she + Crack attack
2013
Surplus 1980 – Arterial ends here (10″LP/CD)
0> The world’s still here
Filiamotsa – Sentier de roches (LP/CD)
0> 4QSO
Chapi Chapo & les Petites Musiques de Pluie – Robotank-Z (CD)
0> Alonalonalone + What is
2012
Year of Birds – Record store day 2012 c60 (v/a, KZ)
0> Yir of Beards
G.W. Sok & the 3talians – Record store day 2012 c60 (v/a, KZ)
0> Dew
Detective Instinct – History of headaches/American novels (LP)
0> The lore of the lamb + Gangrene
G.W. Sok – ECT at Christmas (v/a, KZ)
0> Goof king W
Gran Kino – 1989 (CD)
0> Bericht uit Beijing
L’Etrangleuse – s.t. (LP/CD)
0> Writer’s blog + Dead bodies under Christmas trees
Filiamotsa – Rosemary K’s diaries Volume 3 (10″)
0> 4QSO
2011
The Bent Moustache – Pastures new seasons turn (LP)
0> The sound of sirens
2009
Detective Instinct – Africantapes/Sickroom Records (v/a, CD)
0> 2-2-3 fridges
Chapi Chapo & les Petites Musiques de Pluie – Chuchumuchu (CD)
0> Here we go again
Tractor Notown Catalogue
NOT 01 Zoikle – Illusies 1+2
0000000• 2011 • 7″
NOT 02 Cannibales & Vahinés – N.O.W.H.E.R.E
0000000• 2012 • CD
NOT 03 Two Pin Din & G.W. Sok – Gifts, milk and things
0000000• 2014 • 2×7″
NOT 04 Cannibales & Vahinés – Mirror man / November night
0000000• 2015 • 7″
NOT 05 The And – The And
0000000• 2015 • 10″
NOT 06 The And – Straw / Town of stone
0000000• 2015 • 7″
NOT 07 Cannibales & Vahinés – Songs for a free body
0000000• 2015 • LP (CD-version > Mr Morezon 012)
NOT 08 G.W. Sok – Listen to the painters
0000000• 2016 • CD (compilation)
NOT 09 King Champion Sounds – Fool throttle / Debby one day
0000000• 2017 • 7″
NOT 10 King Champion Sounds/Surplus 1980 – International 0000000static split (split 7″)
0000000• 2019 • 7″
NOT 11 Zoikle – Zoikle
0000000• 2020 • LP
Tractor Notown Digital Only
OWN 01 Howie Reeve & G.W. Sok – When I hear / Alina Ann Elena
0000000• 2019 • single
boekenlijst booklist
DRUXAT UITGAVEN > Ex Mailorder
G.W. Sok Why can’t we all be happy all the time
•••09-2017 • lyrics 2010-2016 (EN), 144 p.
Johannes v/d Weert Red Rat deel 13 & 14
•••10-2010 • comics (NL) > www.rondos.nl
G.W. Sok Een klein zwartwit vechtbek manifest
•••05-2009 • 8 vertalingen/hertalingen van Rondosteksten (NL)
Erik Christenhusz Doka
•••04-2009 • De Kift in foto’s > www.dekift.nl
Rondos A black & white statement
•••04-2009 • box with 2 cd’s + 4 books (biography, lyrics, Red Rat
•••comics, photos) (EN) > www.rondos.nl
Kleij & Roest Pantkrand 25
•••09-2008 • de zin & onzin van een Amsterdams woonwerkpand:
•••poëzie, verhalen, interviews van G.W. Sok en Friso Roest (NL)
G.W. Sok Into the gravy
•••05-2002 • music essay (EN, sold out)
De Kift Koper
•••11-2001 • het grote Kiftplaatjesverzamelboek > www.dekift.nl (op!)
IJsbrand Koudvuur i.o. Beschuit met puistjes
•••06-2002 • G.W. Sok’s puberpoëzie 1975-1976 (NL, oplage 1: op!)
Goeroe Overflakkee Van god los
•••11-2000 • G.W. Sok’s columns voor het muziektijdschrift Opscene
Oli4 Een gat in de onzinlaag
•••11-1999 • cartoons (NL) > www.oli4rijcken.nl (op!)
G.W. Sok Ex-rated
•••08-1997 • 69 song-lyrics of The Ex (EN, sold out)
PLUS
G.W. Sok A/B/C & she
•••published by Half Letter Press, USA
•••01-2014 • postcard poem (EN)
G.W. Sok A mix of bricks & valentines
•••published by PM Press, USA
•••09-2011 • lyrics 1979-2009 (EN), 384 p.
G.W. Sok Livre un: Le début d’une belle frénésie
•••published by Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, CH
•••01-2011 • 26 lyrics translated into French (EN/FR), 68 p.
Concerts 2018
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
01 12-01 Rotterdam (NL) – Worm (Haperende Mens festival)
02 13-01 Tournai (B) – Water Moulin
03 14-01 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii
SENGA ETNA
04 20-01 Den Bosch (NL) – Kruithuis
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
05 03-02 St. Pierre-des-Corps (F) – Festival Allo Tropiques
SENGA ETNA
06 18-02 Haarlem (NL) – Vishal (expo Rik van Iersel)
G.W. SOK (solo) + KANIPCHEN-FIT
07 14-03 Lille (F) – CCL
08 15-03 Dijon (F) – Les Tanneries
09 16-03 Marseille (F) – L’Embobineuse
10 17-03 Barcelona (ESP) – Café Marula
11 18-03 Rodez (F) – Sousto Social Club
12 20-03 Tarbes (F) – Celtic Pub
13 22-03 Rennes (F) – Le Terminus
14 23-03 Caen (F) – L’Atelier de l’Odon
15 24-03 Rotterdam (NL) – Koffie & Ambacht
OISEAUX-TEMPÈTE
16 05-04 Beirut (LEB) – Irtijal Festival
G.W. SOK
17 05-04 Amsterdam (NL) – Occii (Booklaunch Cor Gout)
CODDIWOMPLE
18 26-04 Biarritz (F) – L’Attabal
19 27-04 Tarbes (F) – Celtic Pub
SENGA ETNA
20/21 11-08 Venlo (NL) – Zomerparkfeest
22/23 12-08 Venlo (NL) – Zomerparkfeest
THE AND
24 06-09 Bordeaux (F) – Il Teatro
THE AND / CODDIWOMPLE
25/26 07-09 Montaigu-de-Quercy (F) – L’Enclos
27/28 08-09 Salvagnac (F) – Le Galetas
29/30 09-09 Toulouse (F) – Amanita Muscaria
CODDIWOMPLE
31 13-09 Jurançon (F) – La Ferronnerie
32 14-09 Mont-de-Marsan (F) – Librairie Caractères
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
33 04-10 Paris (F) – FGO Barbara
34 05-10 Dunkerque (F) – 4 Ecluses
SENGA ETNA
35 06-10 Dordrecht (NL) – Ketel 1/Energiehuis
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
36 20-10 Maubec (F) – Gare de Coustellet
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
37 24-10 Lyon (F) – Le Periscope
38 25-10 Fontaine (F) – La Source
39 26-10 Charleroi (B) – Festival Livresse
40 27-10 Forest (B) – CC Le Brass
KING CHAMPION SOUNDS
41 03-11 Utrecht (NL) – Moira
42 09-11 Utrecht (NL) – Le Guess Who festival
43 10-11 Tournai (B) – Water Moulin
44 11-11 Wormerveer(NL) – De Groote Weiver
45 12-11 Köln (D) – Gebäude 9
46 13-11 Hamburg (D) – Honigfabrik
47 14-11 Eschede (NL) – Tankstation
48 15-11 Freiburg (D) – Slow Club
49 16-11 Schaffhausen (CH) – Club Cardinal
50 17-11 Düdingen (CH) – Bad Bonn
51 18-11 Zürich (CH) – Helsinki Club
52 19-11 Lausanne (CH) – Le Romandie
53 20-11 Paris (F) – Le Klub
54 21-11 Strasbourg (F) – La Maison Bleue
55 22-11 Antwerpen (B) – Het Bos
56 23-11 Rotterdam (NL) – V11
57 24-11 Amsterdam (NL) – Cinetol
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
58 06-12 Besançon (F) – L’Antonnoir
59 07-12 Bulle (CH) – CC Ebullition
60 08-12 Martigny (CH) – Caves du Manoir
G.W. SOK w/ HGU
61 22-12 Liège (B) – Eglise Sainte Cathérine
Autumn (Octobrrr)
Coming up
• new album by King Champion Sounds – For A Lark (November)
• new 7″ by King Champion Sounds – 3 Songs EP (November)
• new split 7″ by King Champion Sounds/Surplus 1980 (2019)
• 2x vocals + lyrics w/ Howie Reeve new album (2019)
• 4x vocals + lyrics w/ Surplus 1980 Ensembl Collectiv new album (2019)
• new studio album by Oiseaux-Tempête (2019)
NEW THIS YEAR
• w/ Cactus Club – 5 (LP, October 2018)
0 2x guest-vocals”: “Rue de Seine” + “Extrémophile”
• Oiseaux-Tempête – TARAB (live, LP/CD, June 2018)
• w/ Christian Olivier – AFTER AVANT (CD, June 2018)
0 1x guest-vocals + lyrics: “Shoot”
• w/ Come Holy Spirit – ASTERS & DISASTERS (LP, May 2018)
0 2x guest-vocals + lyrics: “Essayons” + “Elephantine”
• w/ Oma – OMA (cassette, March, 2018)
0 2x guest-vocals: “Aberfan” + “Hospital”