LPR Presents:

Oct

22

W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc)

with Habibi

Tue October 22nd, 2019

8:00PM

The Bell House

Minimum Age: 21+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 8:00PM

Event Ticket: $20

Day of Show: $25

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LPR Presents: W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)

On Sale: Friday, August 23 at 10am EST

 

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W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc)

W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded a new genre dubbed Zamrock, fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown and mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs. At t the peak of their popularity, the band often needed police to keep fans at bay while their lead singer Jagari – whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s – riled up crowds by stage diving from balconies and dancing manically as the WITCH’s blend of psychedelic rock and African rhythms permeated the surrounding atmosphere.

Jagari is the charismatic sole surviving original member of the band. As Zambia’s economy stagnated and the country buckled under the AIDS crisis, WITCH fell apart. Jagari retreated to a life of quasi-anonymity as a university music professor before being wrongfully arrested during Zambia’s toughest hour. Now a man in his 60s, he spends his time mining gemstones hoping to strike it rich, until very recently the band being just a nostalgic memory of his youth.

Largely unknown outside of their home country, WITCH finally got the exposure they deserved when Now Again Records reissued their entire discography in 2012. This allowed Jagari to play outside Africa for the first time and for a new generation of fans to discover his music. In 2016 he began a collaboration with Dutch musicians Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskoviç, and together with them, in September 2017 WITCH headed out on its extremely successful first-ever European Tour. In the Fall of 2019, WITCH embarked on their first North American tour. They return to the states including this show at The Drake on 10/9 following the screening of the documentary at the Amherst Cinema on 9/7. 

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Back from a four year hiatus following the release of their quickly out-of-print and sought-after debut on Burger Records, Habibi released the EP ‘Cardamom Garden’ last spring, significantly their first release with lyrics in Farsi. The four-track lead them to performing at the MoMA and Lincoln Center, to touring Asia, Europe and the US, including dates with Real Estate and Allah-Las, and to be praised by NPR, The New Yorker, and Pitchfork who commended its songs for “shedding rigid definitions of what constitutes American music.

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