16/02/2024
OUT NOW on CD and Digital Platforms!
G.W. Sok & Ignacio Córdoba IS THIS A HOUSE
The result of a collaboration between vocalist G.W. Sok (ex-vocalist for The Ex and electronic composer & improviser Ignacio Córdoba.
In early 2018 Ignacio invited Sok to join him during his residency at WORM Rotterdam. During that week the duo investigated the possibilities of Worm’s various machines and instruments in combination with vocal elements. The result of the sessions were a series of improvisations grown out of Córdoba’s electronic experiments and Sok’s lyrics of dreams, stories, poems and edits from found footage, sometimes cut-and-paste on the spot and sometimes reworked and reshaped later on.
Back home Córdoba began inviting a wide arrange of musicians from all over the world to improvise with guitars, drums, horns, piano and more on top of the Worm skeletons. Afterwards he applied the same collage/cup-up philosophy to all the sound material to create compositions that expand like incantations lead by Sok’s voice. Meanwhile a global virus got in the way, things were delayed even more, and it was no sooner than February 2024 that Tractor Notown and MAGIA could shake hands and release it.
All music by G.W. Sok & Ignacio Córdoba, Halym Aabo-Kim and Laust Moltesen except:
- Portrait of a bird by G.W. Sok, Ignacio Córdoba, Halym Aabo-Kim, Laust Moltesen, Gustav Bjerre
- Tito and Amanda by G.W. Sok, Ignacio Córdoba, Søren Høi, Laust Moltesen
All texts written by G.W. Sok except:
- We Walk by G.W. Sok based on a text by Ignacio Córdoba, a recollection of a dream.
Ignacio Córdoba - producer, engineer, mixing
Live sessions with G.W. Sok at Worm Studios in Rotterdam, NL (January 22nd to 27th 2018)
Overdub sessions in Copenhagen, DK. (2018, 2019, 2020)
G.W. Sok - Artwork, design
David Elberling - Mastering at The V-Recording Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK.
Christina Hallström - Music Videos for Portrait of a Bird & The Stairs
Thanks to WORM, Ainara LeGardon, Marcos Junquera, Víctor Ávila, Lukas Simonis.