October Night

Witch

Jun 16, 2008 at 1:38 AM
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[this is good]

I love this. Extremely organic sound with a little bit of funk twisted in.

Soup replied to The Educated Fool’s comment:
Jun 17, 2008
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Yeah. These guys are really awesome. Search around music blogs, and you can probably find a rip of the album. Or I could probably send the one I have to you at some point.

I can't even begin to think of where to find a legit copy of this. I doubt very many of them exist, and Ebay didn't hook anything up.

[this is good]

These guys were one of the best during their days.Only one i last heard of Jaggari Chanda was a lecturer in music try Mondomusic is a zambian site that has a good collection of old music.

It's really awesome that someone's actually heard of these guys. I honestly know very little about them other than their general time and place in music.

They were a really great band, and I was actually surprised anything like them existed without getting a lot more popular than they did. So Jagari Chanda: is he lecturing at a university? In theory or history? Or something else entirely?

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a copy of the record on that site. But I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye out for one. I kind of wonder if they'll ever reissue it. Considering that everyone I've played the album for likes it, seems like now would be a good time to do that! But that's kind of the frustrating thing about browsing music blogs for new stuff. A lot of the time, you'll find things that are really cool that there's little chance of actually finding in a legit format, for a variety of reasons. Either a label deleted it from their catalog, or it's really obscure, or it's just really "out there" in style. In this case, I think it's mostly a matter of obscurity in the US, although I have no idea how they're generally thought of or remembered in Zambia.

Thanks for your comment!

Jaggari Chanda was a lecturer in music at Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka.

Try checking out Kachaka.com and post that you need to get their "the witch".With Zambia's music it depends on maintaining a library,i just hope the National Archives or Zambia National Broadcasting Corp. must have videos of all their songs coz i remember in the 70's we had TV programmes playing local music like Paul 'Ngozi' Nyirongo, Keith Mlevu, Rikki Illilonga , these musicians were pioneering in Afro pop.

We will try and help u with links to Zambian music.

good luck!

check out this sitemondomusic.co.zm i hope it will help you with music from this country.

Sweet. Thanks! I was actually searching around the other day, and I found an article from a Zambian newspaper interviewing him. I actually wish I'd found it before writing this article here because it gives a lot of insight. Jagari sounds like a pretty committed guy.

If nothing else, a lot of music bloggers are keeping music alive from pretty much everywhere. And I'm glad about that. The internet is such a great tool for old music. Even if there are no more legit copies of something for sale, you can bet there will be someone who has it to share. Which I guess is bad for bands who are still around, making money off their back catalogue, but for bands that are all out of print, it gets their music to a whole new audience.

I'll make a point of looking into the other artists you mentioned, too!

One of the members Boyd Sinkala was a businessman later in life and he had good stories to say about their heydays, i was quite young but they really were good, it will be a shame for the Zambians not to hear this music which is a part of their history,they tend to want to listen to rap etc.but there are some up coming musicians, but they can't compare to these guys'the witch'.

hope to hear more take care.

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