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*Lead Guitar & Vocals: [[Chris “Kims” Mbewe]]
*Lead Guitar & Vocals: [[Chris “Kims” Mbewe]]
*Keyboard: [[Paul “Jones” Mumba]]
*Keyboard: [[Paul “Jones” Mumba]]
==Decline==
{{Main|Zamrock}}
By the late 1970s, the glow had faded. Inflation and unemployment spiked as the price of copper fell. Music bootlegging was on the rise, and money to record and tour dried up. People preferred to spend on their livelihood rather than buy music records or attend concerts. Tastes were changing, too, as disco spread like a plague across the country. Jagari, who had been attending college since 1977, left the band in 1980 to become a full-time music teacher in Lusaka then a miner. He married his wife, Grace, in 1983 and struggled to ­support a growing family on a teacher's salary.<ref>[http://afrobeat-music.blogspot.com/2012/04/witch-up-from-underground.html The Witch: “Up From The Underground“]</ref>
Musical piracy hit Zamrock artists hard, and with no safeguards in place, bootleggers in neighbouring countries were able to make money by copying and selling the music of Zambian artists. Many Zamrock bands were disbanded and musicians thus left the profession to find other work to sustain themselves and their families.<ref name=guardian>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/22/zamrock-zambia-music-rerelease Why Zamrock is back in play] The Guardian, 22 July 2013</ref>


==Reproduction==
==Reproduction==
Now-Again Records has released the complete works of W.I.T.C.H. — five albums and rare 7” tracks presented as a 4CD box set and 6 LP box-set coupled with extensive liner notes detailing the unknown musical history of his [[Zambia]]n ensemble. <ref>[http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/stream-witchs-70s-zamrock-introduction-lp/ Exclusive: 1970s Zamrock ‘Introduction’ LP from WITCH] Okayafrica</ref>
Now-Again Records has released the complete works of W.I.T.C.H. — five albums and rare 7” tracks presented as a 4CD box set and 6 LP box-set coupled with extensive liner notes detailing the unknown musical history of his [[Zambia]]n ensemble. <ref>[http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/stream-witchs-70s-zamrock-introduction-lp/ Exclusive: 1970s Zamrock ‘Introduction’ LP from WITCH] Okayafrica</ref>
==Related videos==
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*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN1P6_Xb7xY|420|| Janet by The WITCH|frame}}
*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSZ3v2Ojezs|420|| Nazingwa by The WITCH|frame}}
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda]]
*[[Zamrock]]
*[[Zamrock]]
*[[Kalindula]]
*[[Kalindula]]
*[[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda]]
*[[Mosi-o-Tunya band]]
*[[Mosi-o-Tunya band]]
*[[:Category:1970s in Zambia]]
*[[:Category:1970s in Zambia|1970s in Zambia]]


== References ==
== References ==