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Het label Now Again komt met een boxset van de Zambiaanse afrorockgroep Witch. Deze floreerden in de periode 1972-77. Afroliefhebbers en psychfans kunnen hun hart ophalen met deze uitgave. Die zal uit komen als 6lp box of 4cd box. De box bevat de eerste vijf albums en een extra lp waar ze alle singletjes op hebben verzameld die ze her en der hebben opgeduikeld.

The complete works of Zambia’s legendary garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-,afro-rock ensemble. 1972-1977: WITCH’s five albums and rare 7” tracks presented as a 4 CD and 6LP box set. Restored and remastered from the original tapes.

WITCH is the best known Zamrock ensemble – they succeeded in releasing five albums in Zamrock’s 70s heyday. Although there have been two previous WITCH reissues by the Shadoks company, this 4 CD/6LP box set marks the first time that their entire catalog – including rare, 7″-only tracks, all restored and remastered from the original tapes – has been available outside of Zambia.

WITCH’s first two, self-produced albums – Introduction and In The Past, released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry – are exuberant experiments in garage rock, and are as influenced by the Rolling Stones as they are James Brown. Their third album, Lazy Bones!!, is the band’s masterpiece – a dark, brooding psychedelic opus that makes equal use of wah-wah and fuzz guitars, that relies as heavily on the stomping feel of hard rock as it does the syncopation of funk. The band’s last two albums – Lukombo Vibes and Including Janet, recorded after the band toured with Osibisa – make use of traditional Zambian rhythms and folk melodies. They are the most “afro-rock” of WITCH’s oeuvre.

These 54 rare and unreleased songs are presented as a 10″ x 6″ hardbound 4 CD box set with a 24 page booklet and as 6 LPs – each with the original cover art – housed in a slipcase box with a 16 page booklet. The 6 LP box set is limited to 1000 pieces.(Now Again)

Disc One – Introduction and In The Past:

1. Introduction
2. Home Town
3. You Better Now
4. Feeling High
5. Like A Chicken
6. See Your Mama
7. That’s What I Want
8. Try Me
9. No Time
10. Living In the Past
11. Young Lady
12. Chance
13. It’s Alright
14. I’ve Been Away
15. I Like The Way I Am
16. The Only Way
17. Smiling Face
18. She Is Mine
19. Mashed Potato

Disc Two – Lazy Bones!! and Bonus Tracks:

1. Black Tears
2. Motherless Child
3. Tooth Factory
4. Strange Dream
5. Look Out
6. Havoc
7. October Night
8. Off My Boots
9. Lazy Bones
10. Little Clown
11. Talking Universe
12. Evil Woman
13. Sweet Sixteen
14. Toloka
15. 81st Crowd Confusion
16. Up The Sky
Disc Three – Lukombo Vibes and Bonus Tracks:

1. Thou Shalt Not Cry
2. Bleeding Thunder
3. Devil’s Flight
4. Blood Donor
5. Nasauka
6. Evening Of My Life
7. Kangalaitoito
8. See – Saw
9. Fool’s Ride
10. Chifundo
Disc Four – Including Janet (Hit Single):

1. Janet
2. As Days Go By
3. Ntedelakumbi
4. In Flight
5. Nazingwa
6. Silver Lady
7. Anyinamwana
8. Mama Feel Good
9. The Way I Feel