Zambian Rock Band ‘We Intend to Trigger Havoc’ W.I.T.C.H. Doc Trailer
by Alex Billington
June 21, 2021
Supply: YouTube
Meet The Beatles of Zambia! Utopia has launched an official trailer for a music historical past / rock documentary known as We Intend To Trigger Havoc, which initially premiered at festivals in 2019 and is lastly getting a US launch this summer season. Directed by Gio Arlotta, We Intend To Trigger Havoc highlights W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend to Trigger Havoc), Zambia’s hottest rock band of the Nineteen Seventies led by the highly effective vocalist, Jagari, whose title is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s. By way of the resurrection of a music that was forgotten by many and unheard by most, the movie explores the lifetime of a former African rockstar, and the joy across the rediscovery of his music by a brand new technology of Western followers. It additionally captures the affect that the Anglo American Heavy Psychedelic Rock of the 70s had on standard Zambian bands. Their voyage results in the reunion of W.I.T.C.H. and their first-ever European tour. “Other than studying extra about a gorgeous nation, its individuals and its music, what I would like for the viewers to remove is the inspiration to stand up and comply with their desires, as a result of you may by no means know when they’ll come true.” Take a look at this rock doc beneath.
This is the official trailer for Gio Arlotta’s doc We Intend to Trigger Havoc, direct from YouTube:
By way of the resurrection of a music that was forgotten by many and unheard by most, the movie explores the lifetime of a former African rockstar, and the joy across the rediscovery of his music by a brand new technology of Western followers. Following Jagari’s life from his delivery in a mud-hut village, by means of to his Zambian superstardom within the 70s whereas taking part in the band’s distinctive mix of heavy psychedelic rock and African rhythms we then delve into his non-public life, as an arrest and jail sentence within the 90s turned him into a spiritual devotee and a miner, till due to the movie’s occasions and collaborators he would carry out in entrance of adoring crowds on his first ever reside European tour in 2017, 40 years after his final album was launched. We Intend to Trigger Havoc is directed by music blogger / filmmaker Gio Arlotta, making his function directorial debut. This primary premiered on the IndieLisboa and Warsaw Movie Festivals in 2019. Utopia will launch We Intend to Trigger Havoc direct-to-VOD beginning on July thirteenth. Go to the movie’s official web site.
