Emmanuel Chanda was selling collectors old albums by Witch, the band he lead through turbulent post-colonial ‘70s Zambia, to pay medical bills, before Now Again reissued his back-catalogue as this four disc box.
Initially Witch, singing in English, channel American and European influences through chiming folk pop, bubbling hairy funk, locked groove hard rock, and Love style psychedelic garage punk.
Then Afro-beat arrives, and Chandra’s cross-cultural stew gets seriously spicy.
Cheap studios and frill free production ensure unvarnished immortality.
If someone like Island had snaffled Witch they’d have been a name to drop.
They yet may be.
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/witch-we-intend-to-cause-havoc/
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