A 28-minute midnight skull-trip through the haunted psychedelic voodoo swamps of Louisiana, actually recorded in Los Angeles by a coven of displaced New Orleans musicians, percussionists and backing singers fronted by Mac Rebennack who assumed the persona of Dr. John, a white conjure-man, caster of spells and master of the zombie eyeball. As mysterious and other-worldly as a clandestine bayou blood sacrifice, Night-Tripper is the evolution of a creeping nocturnal funk steeped in the spirits of black magic and the terrors of the all-consuming darkness. The five tracks compiled on Night-Tripper were recorded in 1967 and originally released as part of the 1968 album Gris-Gris, along with other, more commercial singles material.