★★★★★
Witch was a '70s band from Zambia in southern Africa that had been influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. Their early albums were heavy with fuzz guitar and made a huge impact on what was then known as "Zamrock". Later, however, the band split up, new members came in and the music radically changed...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
Zamrock is a truly rare creature: funky, brash, noisy, danceable, with an insouciant attitude and definite proggy overtones in the fuzz guitars. It's also rare in that you can't find the original records. Among the most sought-after is the work of Witch, a Zambian band that sang in English and made a pile of intriguing albums between 1972 and 1977, which are reissued here...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
There is a fantastically daft book out on McSweenys called All Known Metal Bands 'by' Dan Nelson. It is literally an alphabetic list of 50,000 heavy metal groups with no other information contained within its pages. Even though this is little more than a frivolous coffee table gewgaw it still manages to nail something about the adolescent wish fulfilment of four decades' worth of long hairs the world over. There is nearly a full page of groups called Stonehenge and at least 15 called Death...
- thequietus.com
2012-06-04
★★★★★
One of my favorite records this year was Gonjasufi's trippy "A Sufi and a Killer," which combined hip-hop and acid rock. It got me interested in exploring more psychedelic music, and the second reissue by Zambian acid rock band WITCH seemed like a good place to start. WITCH were a Zam Rock band active in the mid-Seventies, when the troubled Republic of Zambia saw a thriving rock scene that included Musi-O-Tunya, Amanaz, and Peace...
- rapreviews.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
Been waiting for this one. Shadoks (or Normal, or Q.D.K. Media, or whatever they're called) reissued Witch's awesome Lazy Bones!! album a while back, then did this one on (crazy expensive limited) vinyl, now here at last is the much more reasonably priced cd, yay! Along with a reissue of Tirogo's Float, also reviewed this list, both of which should make all fans of '70s African garage psych action super extra ultra happy.....
- aquariusrecords.org
2010-10-25
★★★★★
Restocked, last copies. Numbered edition of 500, glossy heavy sleeve on 180 gram vinyl. Originally released in Zambia, 1973. "Another out-of-nowhere African '70s rock discovery in the Blo mold. Completely unknown band from Zambia, privately pressed on a small local label, this five-piece electric band plays a strong electric African underground style. Tons of wah wah-fuzz guitar in every track, African style beats and vocals and all original songs...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Witch's self-titled 2006 debut had a lot going for it, most obviously J. Mascis behind the drum kit. Besides his stint in Deep Wound, Mascis held things down on the first LP from Upside Down Cross, a sublime confrontational sludge album that can cave heads to this day...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Dinosaur Jr afficionados will know that frontman J Mascis started his musical career as drummer for a little known, but some say seminal hardcore band called Deep Wound. Fellow Dinosaur man Lou Barlow was also in Deep Wound and one wonders whether it was last year's musical reunion with Mascis - after years of estrangement - that has prompted Mascis to create his latest side-project, Witch...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
oes the world need another pile of scuzzy Sabbathoid riff rock about black magic and crystal balls? Of course it does! On Witch's debut, Dinosaur Jr. guitar god J Mascis returns to his first love, the drums, but the real fire lies with singer Kyle Thomas and guitarist Asa Irons. Vets of Vermont's nifty freak-folk combo Feathers, they forge tunes with necromantic flare, offering cosmic Hawkwindy vocals and serpentine, atmospheric guitars...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
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