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Before the world was made

by Lonsai Maikov and Swesor Bhrater

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A meeting of Love, such is the story behind this release. A tender battle between old and young part of the mythologic French darkfolk scene. A love meeting around the poetry of one master, WB Yeats and the deep human truth unveiled by this deep moving text.

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released July 18, 2021

lyrics : Before the world was made, Published in The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933.

If I make the lashes dark

And the eyes more bright

And the lips more scarlet,

Or ask if all be right

From mirror after mirror,

No vanity’s displayed:

I’m looking for the face I had

Before the world was made.



What if I look upon a man

As though on my beloved,

And my blood be cold the while

And my heart unmoved?

Why should he think me cruel

Or that he is betrayed?

I’d have him love the thing that was

Before the world was made.


In this poem, “Before the World Was Made,” Yeats writes from the perspective of a beautiful woman responding to a jealous lover. She begins by acknowledging her efforts to make herself more attractive with cosmetics, “mak[ing] the lashes dark,” “the eyes more bright,” and “the lips more scarlet.” While these actions can be seen as a projection of vanity, the woman chides the lover by saying that “no vanity’s displayed,” but rather that she is “looking for the face [she] had before the world was made.”

Going forward, the woman proceeds to acknowledge the power her beauty allots her, how a simple “look upon a man as though on [her] beloved” while staying “cold” and “unmoved” could make him see her as “cruel” and feel “betrayed.” In response to this, the woman says that she would rather have him “love the thing that was before the world was made.”

Here, the woman reveals that, through her application of cosmetics and her use of her aesthetic beauty, she is searching for her inner beauty, something that was lost “before the world was made.” What’s interesting is that it’s not clear what happened that damaged her inner beauty, that shaped and changed the way she sees the world. The tragic thing about this entire poem is that the woman longs for the inner beauty she wishes to reclaim, and feels that her current, superficial beauty is only a shadow of the woman she was before.

– Virginia Kettles -

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Lonsai Maïkov Rennes, France

The dark Apopkalypse began in 1988.
Band's name and sign revealed themselves in the fog of dreams and noises (at the time Thierry Jolif was bass player in a local noisy-cold-wave band, Mortus Delirium). A certain obsession with extremes avant-gardes & European mythologies as well as spirituality leads him in sonic indus experiments as well as folkish tunes, harsh, poetic and low-fi. ... more

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