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ARTIST
MCPHEE, JOE
TITLE
Black Magic Man
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
CATALOG #
SV 185LP
SV 185LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/20/2024
"
Black Magic Man
is arguably the pivotal
Joe McPhee
release. It bridged the span between the regional and the international, bypassing the national altogether. Recorded in the same sessions that produced
Nation Time
,
Black Magic Man
consists of music not chosen for that LP. Like its much-feted sister, technically it falls under the domain of
CjR
,
Craig Johnson
's herculean effort in support of McPhee. An erstwhile painter, Johnson became a self-taught audio engineer, acquiring equipment expressly to document McPhee's music. In December 1970, five years after Johnson and McPhee had met, they recorded two days of activity -- a concert followed by an additional day of recordings -- at Vassar College where McPhee was teaching in the Black Studies department. About half of the material was used to make
Nation Time
. While they had planned to issue a follow-up, the money wasn't there, so the tapes sat dormant. Fast-forward five years --
Werner X. Uehlinger
, a Swiss businessman who worked for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, contacted Johnson while on a trip to the US, and over dinner with McPhee, they discussed putting out some of the unused tracks from the
Nation Time
sessions. With this casual encounter in 1975, Hat Hut Records was inaugurated. The new label's maiden release was
Black Magic Man
, dubbed Hat Hut A, the first in what would become Hat Hut's letter series. Along the way, the series would feature seven Joe McPhee records, including the first four in a row." --
John Corbett
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