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  "slug": "witch",
  "name": "WITCH",
  "description": "WITCH appears 3 times in our Zamrock and 1976 lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/witch/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1975,
    "last": 1976
  },
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    "rank": 1,
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  },
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      "slug": "zamrock",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "nineteen-seventy-six",
      "name": "1976",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/",
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      "trackKey": "witch--introduction",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/witch--introduction/",
      "title": "Introduction",
      "year": 1975,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "From Lazy Bones, and the best-known Zamrock record by some distance. Emanuel Chanda's voice is playful over a band playing considerably harder than he is.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "exact": false
        },
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        }
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      },
      "artist": "WITCH"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "witch--waile",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/witch--waile/",
      "title": "Waile",
      "year": 1976,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "From Lukombo Vibes, and the point where the band start folding local rhythms further in. Less indebted, more itself.",
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        {
          "kind": "curator",
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        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/WITCH%20Waile",
          "exact": false
        },
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        }
      },
      "rank": 4,
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        "slug": "zamrock",
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      },
      "artist": "WITCH"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "witch--waile",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/witch--waile/",
      "title": "Waile",
      "year": 1976,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The other great Zambian band of the same moment, and proof the entry above was a scene rather than an outlier. Two of the eleven records here come from a country with no export industry for music at all.",
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        }
      ],
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          "exact": false
        },
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        }
      },
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}