The Witch And The Robot is a psychedelic rock project associated with freak folk, acid folk, alt-folk and psychedelic music. The act is presented through a surreal narrative centred on a figure called The Witch, who has existed since the dawn of time, appears in multiple dimensions and is linked to space travel, nanobots and revenge on humanity.

The story places The Witch in an Inca setting as a ruler and figurehead of a violently matriarchal sect. She is described as a living god who shares knowledge of alien spaceflight with the tribe, before being banished in a rocket to a meteor called Caraltutumbog, about 20 light years from Earth. From there, she builds nanobots from rocket debris and sends them back to Earth to find a human candidate to turn into a humanoid killing machine.

The project’s imagery also moves through wartime and cosmic scenes, including the First World War, doomed love, and transformation into a machine-like being. The Witch is depicted as physically enormous, with long arms used for walking, semi-precious stone hands and a vain temperament. The text ends by framing the whole story as uncertain, suggesting it may all have happened differently.