The Second Coming

by CARMAIG↯GEDDON

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Our debut (virtual) single! CARMAIG↯GEDDON brings Willam Butler Yeats' 100 year-old apocalyptic verse, "The Second Coming", to the 21st Century.

All proceeds from sales of this track on Bandcamp will benefit the humanitarian relief effort in Gaza with proceeds going to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

A part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, PRCS is busy in Gaza providing humanitarian assistance as well as health and social services to the community. For more info on the PRCS visit www.palestinercs.org/en

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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?

~ William Butler Yeats, 2019 (public domain)

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released December 24, 2023
Carmaig de Forest - uke, vox
Aimee Zoe - washboard
Mikel McDermott - audio engineer

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CARMAIG↯GEDDON Seattle, Washington

Carmaig de Forest + Aimee Zoe =
Seattle-based
Uke Punk

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