May 31, 2020

LPH 381 - Knots (1993-2013)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #381]


tracklist:

(1993) Drumbone² - Sticky Knots
(1996) Kevin Norton Trio - Knots
(1998) John Wolf Brennan, Gene Coleman, Christian Wolfarth - (With a) Knot-Knowing Smile
(1999) Queen Mab + Tiina Kiik - Knot
(2003) Hans Fjellestad, Dana Reason, Jason Robinson - Torus Knot
(2003) Wally Shoup Trio - Psyche Knot
(2005) Okkyung Lee + Tim Barnes - Deep Blue Knot
(2007) Joe McPhee Survival Unit III - The Why Knot
(2009) Scott R. Looney + Klaus Janek - Ineffectual Test Knots
(2011) Daniel Studer - Knotenspiel
(2013) Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, David Leahy - Half Knot

total time: 67'40


Knotted by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to Günter Müller.

May 28, 2020

LPH 380 - Essiet Okon Essiet, double bass (1983-2016)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #380]


tracklist:

(1983) Dollar Brand Quartet feat. Carlos Ward - For Coltrane, No. 11
(1983) Joe Malinga + Southern African Force - No Net
(1984) Joseph Jarman + Famoudou Don Moye - Jimbo Kwesi
(1986) Marty Cook Group with Jim Pepper - 'Just Is
(1988) Ralph Peterson Trio feat. Geri Allen - Splash
(1991) Bobby Watson + Horizon - Bush Song
(1993) Donald Brown Group - I Didn't Know What Time it Was
(1994) Louis Hayes + Company - Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
(1995) Ron Affif Trio - Yardbird Suite
(2004) Pietro Tonolo Quartet - Stringimi forte i polsi
(2007) John Di Martino + Romantic Jazz Trio - Epistrophy
(2014) Essiet Okon Essiet Group - Enuen
(2016) Benito Gonzales Trio feat. Gerry Gibbs - Brazilian Girls

total time: 79'40


Essieted by Lucky.
Cover photo by Jukka Piiroinen.
Dedicated to Essiet Okon Essiet.

May 25, 2020

LPH 379 - Lucky Digs (1953-57)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #379]


tracklist:

(1953) Charlie Mariano + Boston All Stars - Barsac
(1954) Tony Fruscella + Brew Moore Quintet - Minor Blues
(1954) Elmo Hope Quintet - Abdullah
(1954) Serge Chaloff Nonet - Slam
(1954) Dick Twardzik Trio - A Crutch for the Crabs
(1955) Terry Pollard Quartet - Where or When
(1955) Stan Getz + The Cool Sounds - Roundup Time
(1955) Bob Cooper Nonet - Drawing Lines
(1955) Chet Baker Quartet - The Girl from Greenland
(1956) Alonzo Levister Orchestra - Sugar Hill Strut
(1956) George Russell + His Smalltet - Round Johnny Rondo
(1957) Art Pepper Quartet - Diane's Dilemma
(1957) The Amram-Barrow Quartet - City Talk
(1957) Richie Kamuca Quartet - Fire One

total time: 52'58


Dug out by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to the jazz cats.

May 24, 2020

LPH 378 - What Noise? (1987-2017)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #378]


tracklist:

(1987) Hanatarash - No Noise
(1988) Otomo Yoshihide + Hirose Junji - Noise from Far East
(1992) Death Praxis - Economic Noise
(1992) Gianni Gebbia, Peter Kowald, Günter 'Baby' Sommer - Sun & Noise
(1995) Klaus König Orchestra with David Moss + The Bobs - Avantgarde Noise Pollution
(1995) Marc Ribot - Noise #2
(1996) Claude Schryer - Vancouver Soundscape Revisited: Noise
(1996) Music Revelation Ensemble - Noise and Clamor
(1998) Chris Watson - Machine Noise
(1999) Peter Brötzmann, Peeter Uuskyla, Peter Friis Nielsen - Noise Like Wings
(1999) Tiziano Tononi + The Society of Freely Syncopated Organic Pulses - White Noise, No Noise
(2007) David Garland - Noise in You
(2007) Tommy Meier Ensemble - City of Noise
(2008) Kaan Kaerede - Hunter Makes Much Noise
(2008) Mathew Adkins - Noise Study
(2013) perfecTrio - Harlem Sunday Noise (Impro #11)
(2015) Lost Planet - Day of Noise (excerpt)
(2017) The Remote Viewers - The Noise of History

total time: 74'16


Noised by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to the noisemakers.

May 19, 2020

LPH 377 - Tuesday (1958-2019)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #377]


tracklist:

(1958) Chico Hamilton Quintet - Tuesday at Two
(1961) Duane Eddy + The Rebels - Tuesday
(1968) The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Tuesday's Blues
(1972) Stevie Wonder - Tuesday Heartbreak
(1976) Airto Fogo - Tuesday in Jackson
(1977) John Tchicai Trio - On Tuesday
(1978) Leroy Jenkins Trio - Tuesday Child
(1979) Beatnik Worship - Tuesday Morning
(1981) The Vinny Golia Quintet - 726, Tuesday
(1982) Orthotonics - Tuesday
(1989) John Lurie Quartet - Tuesday Night in Memphis (Mystery Train OST)
(1992) Milk Cult - Tuesday
(1994) C. C. Nova - Tuesday, September 3, 1964
(1995) Raw Stylus - Tuesday Afternoon
(2000) Alexander Balanescu + To Rococo Rot - Late on Tuesday
(2010) Bee vs. Moth - Tuesday in Tuskegee
(2011) Mary Halvorson + Jessica Pavone - The Object of Tuesday
(2013) Daniel Koren's Ensemble - Tuesday
(2015) Kirk Knuffke Trio - Tuesday
(2019) Holden + Zimpel feat. Jakub Ziołek - Tuesday

total time: 74'11


Tuesdayed by Lucky.
Cover art originally from Tuesday's Child magazine, taken from The Paris Review.
Dedicated to Tuesday.

May 18, 2020

LPH 376 - Sounds in Dub (1973-82)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #376]


tracklist:

(1973) I-Roy - Sound Education
(1973) Bobby Floyd - Sound Doctor
(1975) Sir Coxsone Sound - Sounds of Safari
(1976) I-Roy - Drum Sound
(1977) Augustus Pablo - Sounds from Levi
(1978) King Tubby - Soundtrack Dub aka Satisfaction in Dub
(1978) Jackie Mittoo - Atom Sounds
(1978) D.E.B. Music Players - Sounds Almighty
(1978) Fatman Riddim Section - Sounds of Israel
(1978) Augustus "Gussie" Clarke - Loving Sounds
(1979) King Tubby - Soundboy Massacre
(1979) The Revolutionaries - Thompson Sound Incorporated
(1979) King Tubby + Knowledge - Words, Sounds and Dubwise
(1980) Yabby You + The Prophets - Yabby You Sound
(1981) Prince Far-I + The Arabs - Destruction Sound Battle
(1981) Linval Thompson + Billy Boyo - How You String a Sound
(1982) Scientist - Watch the Sound of the Metal Dub
(1982) Prince Jammy + Black Uhuru - Sound Man Style

total time: 63'03


Dubbed by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to the musicians and engineers involved.

May 17, 2020

LPH 375 - Jazz from Italy (2007)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #375]


tracklist:

01. Roger Rota Quartet - Seven
02. Enzo Favata Tentetto feat. Tenores di Bitti - Su tempus nou
03. Gianluca Petrella Big Band - Slow Bars
04. Giorgio Gaslini Chamber Trio - Latin Genetics (Ornette Coleman)
05. Francesco Cusa "Skrunch" - Escape from Pussyland
06. Achille Succi, Giovanni Maier, U. T. Gandhi - Tony's Lament
07. Enrico Blatti Ensemble - InterRail'
08. Aldo Romano Quartet - Cité soleil
09. Dinamitri Jazz Folklore - Baraka
10. Actis Band - Erzurum
11. Houdini's Cage - Sideshow
12. Daniele D'Agaro Adriatics Orchestra - Tiny Pyramids
13. John De Leo - Tilt (c'è mattia?)
14. Mirio Cosottini + Tonino Miano - Nebbia nebbia

total time: 71'28


Italiazzed by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to Pinocchio.

May 15, 2020

LPH 374 - Bonely - A Lucky Trombone Mix (1967-2011)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #374]


tracklist:

(1967) Vinko Globokar - Sequenza V (Luciano Berio)
(1974) Paul Rutherford - Funny Side of Discreet
(1976) George Lewis - Phenomenology
(1977) Julian Priester - Polarization
(1977) Mario Schiano - Trois exercices pour trombone à coulisse
(1978) Garrett List - Certain Logic
(1978) Stuart Dempster - General Speech (Robert Erickson)
(1979) Roswell Rudd - Up Front
(1979) Willem van Manen - Velvet
(1980) Conny Bauer - Rüdiger
(1982) Wolter Wierbos - Mutey
(1994) Christian Lindberg - Basta (Folke Rabe)
(1994) Ray Anderson, Craig Harris, George Lewis, Gary Valente - Four Some (Ray Anderson)
(1999) Giancarlo Schiaffini - Maknongan (Giacinto Scelsi)
(2001) Jeb Bishop + Sebi Tramontana - The Empty Lounge
(2011) Posaunenglanzterzett (Johannes Bauer, Matthias Müller, Christof Thewes) - Blümlein aus Stahl

total time: 86'34


Boned by Lucky.
Cover sketch from Painting Valley.
Dedicated to my son.

May 13, 2020

LPH 373 - Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (1944-2008)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #373]


21 versions of the song by Harold Arlen + Johnny Mercer.


tracklist:

(1944) Charlie Spivak + His Orchestra with Irene Day
(1944) Johnny Mercer + The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston + His Orchestra
(1944) Artie Shaw + His Orchestra with Imogene Lynn
(1944) Bing Crosby + The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen + His Orchestra
(1944) Kay Kyser + His Orchestra with Dolly Mitchell + Vocal Trio
(1945) Duke Ellington + His Orchestra
(1954) Oscar Peterson Trio
(1958) Perry Como with the Ray Charles Singers + Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra
(1958) Sam Cooke with the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra
(1959) Gene Vincent
(1960) Ella Fitzgerald with the Billy May Orchestra
(1962) Aretha Franklin
(1962) Enoch Light with the Light Brigade
(1966) Harold Arlen with the Peter Matz Orchestra
(1972) NRBQ
(1982) Teresa Bewer + Ruby Braff Band
(1989) Dr. John
(1995) Sylvia McNair + André Previn
(1996) Medeski Martin + Wood (arr. Ken Shaphorst)
(2002) Mary Margaret O'Hara + Eric Mingus Group (prod. Hal Willner)
(2008) John Boutté Group with Paul Sanchez

total time: 61'13


Ac-cent-tchu-ated by Lucky.
Cover photo by Dirk Rabe (from Wikipedia).
Dedicated to optimistic apes.

May 08, 2020

LPH 372 - What? (1967-2016)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #372]


tracklist:

(1967) Hugo Montenegro + His Orchestra - Sixty Seconds to What? (Ennio Morricone)
(1971) Sly + The Family Stone - Do You Know What?
(1974) Kilburn and the High-Roads - Patience (So What?)
(1978) Milton Nascimento - E dai? (A queda) - So What? (The Fall)
(1983) Willem Breuker Kollektief - What?
(1985) Kamikaze Ground Crew - What?
(1990) Palinckx - So What?
(1996) Jon - Okikunattara nani na aru? (If You Grow Up, Then What?)
(1997) Michael Gassmann, Stefano Battaglia, Pierre Favre - I Said What?
(1998) Ivor Cutler - What?
(1998) Mat Maneri Trio - So What?
(2002) Kazuo Imai + Han Bennink - What? Where?
(2005) Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars - Out of What?
(2010) Reptet + Mark Oi - Something Like What?
(2016) Bones - Explaining What?!

total time: 57'38


What by Lucky?
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to what?

May 06, 2020

LPH 371 - Stereo Candies (1979-2018)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #371]


tracklist:

(1979) Proles - Stereo Love
(1980) The Stripes - Radio in Stereo
(1981) Lora Logic - Stereo
(1987) Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity
(1994) Koichi Makigami, Otomo Yoshihide + Jon Rose - Stereo Balance Test
(1995) Judy and Mary - Stereo Zenkai
(1995) Negativland - Pure Full Stereo Rototiller and So Long
(1997) Low-Fi Generator - Stereo
(2000) Blue States - Stereo 99
(2000) The Dining Rooms - Lenny the Stereo Hip
(2001) G15 - Stereo Checkout
(2003) Keith Fullerton Whitman - Stereo Music for Serge Modular Prototype - Part Three
(2005) Solar Fields - Stereo Hypnosis (Magnetosphere Part 2)
(2006) Thunderball - Stereo Tonic (Boca 45 Remix)
(2007) The Brunettes - Stereo (Mono Mono)
(2012) Esbe feat. Groove Cereal - Space in Stereo
(2013) Yugen Blakrok - Stereo-lith Intro
(2016) TVA - Radio Camaldoli Stereo
(2018) Daniel Avery - Stereo L

total time: 66'59


Stereorized by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to the memory of Juan García Esquivel.

May 03, 2020

LPH 370 - Liberation Music (1969-2017)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #370]


tracklist:

(1969) Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - The Introduction / Song of the United Front (Carla Bley / Hanns Eisler)
(1977) Willem Breuker Group - De Oost Indonesian Liberation Struggle 1947
(1977) Tapper Zukie - Liberation Struggle
(1979) Abdullah Ibrahim Quartet - Liberation Dance (When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter)
(1984) Pascal Comelade - La prise de Nankin par l'armée populaire de libération
(1989) René Lussier Group - Extrait du manifeste du 'Front de libération du Québec'
(1995) Franklin Kiermyer Quartet - Fifty Years (After the Liberation of Auschwitz)
(2002) Choi Sun Bae + Alfred Harth - Liberation Day 08.15.1945
(2011) Fred Ho + Quincy Saul Group - The Black Liberation Movement Suite, Pt. 6: The Damned Don't Cry (for Huey P. Newton) (Cal Massey)
(2011) Tarbaby with Oliver Lake + Marc Ducret - Liberation Blues
(2015) Cosmic Brujo Mutafuka - Liberation
(2016) Satoko Fujii, Wadada Leo Smith, Natsuki Tamura, Ikue Mori - Liberation
(2017) Wadada Leo Smith Ensembles - Vision Dance 2: Defiance, Justice and Liberation

total time: 78'20


Liberated by Lucky.
Cover photo from Animal Liberation, Sydney.
Dedicated to A. ("demande de libération d'un dindon confiné").

May 01, 2020

LPH 369 - Twenty No. 1 Hits (1952-2016)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2020; #369]


tracklist:

(1952) Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars - Viva Zapata! No. 1
(1965) Takeshi Terauchi + His Blue Jeans - Blue Jean No. 1
(1967) Howard Riley Trio - Folk Theme No. 1
(1968) Ti-Noir Joyal - Reel antiquité No. 1
(1968) Tuca - Abstrato No. 1
(1970) Astor Piazzolla y su orquesta - Pulsacion No. 1
(1970) Egberto Gismonti - Lirica No. 1
(1973) Nuta Jazz Band - Instrumental No. 1
(1974) Augustus Pablo - Assignment No. 1
(1987) James Taylor Quartet - Untitled No. 1
(1987) Niekku - Kuulan polska No. 1
(1994) Ensemble Unicorn - Saltarello No. 1
(1995) Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble - Dance No. 1
(1996) Frank Lowe Trio - Fight Song No. 1
(1997) Alicia Svigals - Romanian Fantasy No. 1
(2002) Huan Qing - Moon Town Moon Colour No. 1
(2003) Henri Doktorski - Deiro's Valse Caprice No. 1
(2007) Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research - Kleine Figuren No. 1
(2013) Bob Ostertag - Machine State, No. 1
(2016) Jean-Marie Machado + Didier Ithursarry - Chopins' Nocturne No. 1

total time: 80'00


Hit by Lucky.
Cover design from a German Pop Compilation LP, EMI Electrola, 1977.
Dedicated to my late dad.