Una storia alternativa degli Aksak Maboul degli anni ruggenti (1977-1980) condotta sfogliando documenti rari e poco noti, prodotti in varie e difformi occasioni e spesso al cospetto di illustrissimi ospiti. Già era uscita nel 2018 approfittando della ripubblicazione di Un peu de l'âme des bandits, ora torna disponibile in formato digitale su Bandcamp: Before And After Bandits (documents 1977-1980, 2015).
Originally included in CD format as a bonus to the 2018 vinyl reissue of Un peu de l'âme des bandits, this collection of rare live and studio recordings is now released digitally for the first time. Over the course of ten tracks and 78 minutes of wild, lo-fi, shambolic music, the album presents some hidden aspects of the ever-morphing Aksak Maboul sound. It reveals some of the missing links between the various phases of the sinuous, still-unfolding Aksak story, starting around the 1977 debut Onze danses pour combattre la migraine, following through the Bandits album phase with Frith & Cutler, on to traces of a mad, little-documented avant-No Wave phase in 1980, finally landing in 2015 with an excerpt of the first show by the band's resurrected live incarnation, after a hiatus of some 30 years.