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The Second Coming (W​.​B. Yeats)

from When I Rise Up by Loah

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[Loah] "Yeat’s famous poem about the effects of WW2 was one of the first ones I thought of for this project, but one of the last ones to write because it felt very daunting to approach such a monumental, historical piece. The musical approach I took is very minimal, going for a matter-of-fact, mostly vocal delivery to allow the haunting prose to communicate this harsh take on the second coming of the Messiah, seen through a war-torn lens."

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it,
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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from When I Rise Up, released December 16, 2021
Music - Loah
Lyrics - W.B. Yeats
Vocals - Loah
Harmonium - Loah
Piano - Loah
Production & Mixing - Cian Finlay
Recording Engineering - Loah
Mastering - Ruadhraí Cushnen at Camden Recording Studios

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Loah Dublin, Ireland

Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, a singer songwriter of Irish /Sierra Leonian descent. She performs her unique blend of Afro- folksoul across solo projects and with collaborators. In 2020, she returned to her old vocation as a pharmacist to frontline, yet continued to contribute culturally, presenting several music shows and releasing When I Rise Up, an EP of poetry from the 1920s set to music. ... more

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