June 30, 2025

LPH 853 - Lucky Saints (1989-2015)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #853]


tracklist:

(1989) Dennis Gonzalez New Dallasangeles - Battalion of Saints
(1990) Curlew - Saint Dog
(1991) Julius Hemphill Sextet - Four Saints
(1991) Medeski Martin + Wood + Horns - The Saint
(1993) Charles Gayle Quartet - Glorious Saints
(1997) Tiziano Tononi + The Society of Freely Syncopated Organic Pulses - Standing at the Crossroads: Dance of the Saints
(1999) Paul Dunmall - The Saint
(2001) Marc Ribot - Saints (Albert Ayler)
(2002) Erik Friedlander Quartet - Sainted
(2005) Meridian Arts Ensemble - Slim in Beaten Dreamers: An Idle Saint Remembers (Nick Didkovsky)
(2008) Herb Robertson + Mark Solborg - Saint
(2011) Whitney George Orchestra feat. Frank Kuumba Lacy - The Black Saint (for Malcolm X) (Cal Massey)
(2012) John Hébert Trio - Saints
(2015) Baritone Sax Revolution - Saints Are Calling (Marco Visconti Prasca)

total time: 81'11


Sainted by Lucky.
Cover art from Common Saints' "Summer Sun", 2021 (taken from Soundcloud).
Dedicated to saints (maybe).

June 29, 2025

LPH 852 - The Endless Mix (1992-2018)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #852]


tracklist:

(1992) Zeena Parkins + Ikue Mori - "MY GOD! Have I Flung Myself Into an Endless Void?"
(1993) Joëlle Léandre's Canvas Trio - L'Histoire de Mme. Tasco: Endless Waltz
(1994) Bert Wilson + Rebirth - Endless Fingers
(1996) Max Nagl Group - Endless
(1998) A. D. D. Trio - Endless None
(1998) Ivo Perelman Trio - Endlessness
(1999) Tricolor - Endless
(2000) Jason Kao Hwang, Francis Wong, Tatsu Aoki - To the Endless Embrace of Light
(2007) Old Dog - Endless Return
(2010) Kayhan Kalhor + Madjid Khaladj - Endless Endearments
(2011) Boris Kovač + David Yengibarian - Endless
(2012) Watt - Ascending Endlessly
(2017) Fish-Scale Sunrise - Endless
(2018) Guillermo Gregorio, Rafał Mazur, Ramón López - Endlessly

total time: 69'42


Endlessed by Lucky.
Cover art by Matthias Maria Boehm, "What Endless Light", 2016 (taken from Singulart).
Dedicated to less ends.

June 24, 2025

LPH 851 - Down with the U.S.A. (1927-2005)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #851]


tracklist:

(1927) Duke Ellington + His Washingtonians - Down in Our Alley Blues (Otto Hardwick, Duke Ellington)
(1935) Hoosier Hot Shots - Down in the Valley
(1941) Count Basie + His Orchestra - Down, Down, Down (What a Song) (Don Redman)
(1948) Spike Jones + His City Slickers - Down in Jungle Town (Theodore Morse, Edward Madden)
(1951) Miles Davis Sextet - Down
(1957) Hal McKusick Quintet feat. Art Farmer - Down and Dirty (Al Cohn)
(1957) Homer + Jethro - Down Where the Watermelons Grow (George Evans, Ren Shields)
(1958) Bud Powell Trio - Down With It
(1958) Harry Breuer + His Quintet - Down Home Rag (Wilbur Sweatman)
(1960) Booker Ervin Quintet - Down in the Dumps
(1960) Gigi Gryce Quintet - Down Home (Curtis Fuller)
(1962) Dick Hyman Trio - Down Home Melody
(1962) Sal Nistico Quintet - Down (Miles Davis)
(1966) The Fugs - Coming Down (Ed Sanders)
(1970) Freddie Hubbard Sextet - Gittin' Down
(1970) Jeremy Steig Quartet - Down Stretch (Jan Hammer)
(1982) Lester Bowie - Down Home
(1997) Roscoe Mitchell - Down at the Pond
(2001) Vivian Sisters - Ho-Down
(2002) Michel Lambert Trio - Gone Down
(2005) Dave Burrell Trio - Downfall

total time: 81'22


Downed by Lucky.
Cover photo by Paul Biris, "Anti-American Mural in Tehran, Iran", 2017 (taken from Getty Images).
Dedicated to critical masses.

June 23, 2025

LPH 850 - Music for Alberto Giacometti (1958-2022)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #850]


tracklist:

(1958) Südwestfunk Orchestra Baden-Baden, dir. Hans Rosbaud - Agon (Igor Stravinsky)
(1966) The Exiles - Freedom, Come All Ye
(1974) Bob Downes Open Music - Tunnels Electronic
(1981) Carlos Roque Alsina + Jean-Pierre Drouet - Soli Piano / Percussions (Gilbert Amy)
(1995) Simon Steensland + Mats Öberg - The Last Waltz
(1999) Ultra Bra - Hei kuule Suomi
(2010) Mark Knoop - Voices and Piano: Alberto Giacometti (Peter Ablinger)
(2011) Made to Break - Pursuit (for Alberto Giacometti)
(2012) Morten Haxholm Quartet - Giacometti
(2016) Waa Wei - Alberto Giacometti
(2022) Hania Rani - Struggle

total time: 77'24


Sculpted by Lucky.
Cover sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, "Standing Woman", 1948 (taken from MoMA).
Dedicated to Alberto Giacometti.

June 21, 2025

LPH 849 - Lovely Grooves (1991-2013)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #849]


tracklist:

(1949) Irving Fields + The Campos Trio - Lovely Lady
(1957) The King Bees with Lloyd Price's Orchestra - Lovely Love
(1967) Jimmy Hughes - Lovely Ladies
(1967) The Beatles - Lovely Rita
(1968) The Del-Tours - Sweet and Lovely
(1970) Mike Cooper - Your Lovely Ways
(1972) Jackie Wilson - What a Lovely Way
(1975) Gil Scott-Heron + Brian Jackson - A Lovely Day
(1975) Tabou Combo - Lovely Mama
(1976) Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
(1977) Bill Withers - Lovely Night for Dancing
(1977) Prince Far I - Cricket Lovely Cricket
(1984) Suthep Daoduangmai Band - Lovely Molam Princess
(1993) Cake Like - Lovely Ladies
(1999) Vibes - Lovely Day
(2007) Badad de Lann-Bihou - Don't Forget the Lovely Days
(2010) Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom - Big Lovely
(2014) Sébastien Coste, Beñat Achiary, Julien Desprez, Edward Perraud - Dead and Lovely

total time: 74'47


Lovelied by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to groovy love.

June 20, 2025

LPH 848 - Works of Grief (1991-2013)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #848]


tracklist:

(1991) Meridian Arts Ensemble - Song of Grief (Alexander Arutiunian)
(1993) Henry Threadgill Group - Grief
(1994) John Butcher + Vanessa Mackness - Fallen Grief of Weeping Willow
(1996) Tetsu Saitoh Group - Notice / Grief
(1997) Ensemble 4:33 + NeTe - Grief
(2003) Achim Kaufmann - No Trace of Food, or Grief
(2004) Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant - Styrofoam + Grief
(2005) Kato Hideki's Green Zone - Curtains of Grief
(2007) Pierre Dørge + New Jungle Orchestra - Great Grief
(2010) Mike Cooper - In Exile in Aghmat, Al Mutamids Grief at the Loss of I'timad
(2013) Fred Frith, Theresa Wong, Annie Lewandowski - World of Grief and Doubt

total time: 76'19


Griefed by Lucky.
Cover art by Anselm Kiefer, "The Orders of the Night", 1996 (taken from Artsy).
Dedicated to all that fall.

June 17, 2025

LPH 847 - Conflux (1961-2010)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #847]


tracklist:

(1961) Ton Bruynel - Reflexen
(1974) Jacques Lejeune - Parages: The Icarus Cycle
(1974) Josef Anton Riedl - Glas-Spiele
(1985) Benedict Maillard - Affleurements
(1996) Pierre Henry - Conflit
(1999) Jean Schwarz - Dilin Dalan Flatak
(1999) Åke Parmerud - Les flûtes en feu
(2006) Bernard Parmegiani - Au gre du souffle, le son s'envole
(2010) Francis Dhomont - Le flux des sons
(2010) Hanna Hartman - Shanghai Fireflies

total time: 86'01


Confluxed by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to Luc Ferrari.

June 16, 2025

LPH 846 - Sleepy Time (1975-2017)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #846]


tracklist:

(1975) Ivor Cutler + Fred Frith - Sleepy Old Snake
(1981) This Heat - Sleep
(1987) Pyrolator - Sleep Well
(1991) Astor Piazzolla + Kronos Quartet - Asleep
(1994) Social Interiors - Modern Sleep
(1996) Kato Hideki + Zeena Parkins - Watching the Sleeping Lover
(1997) David Moss + Makigami Koichi - The Pioneer of Sleep
(1997) Ensemble 4:33, NeTe, DJ Kubikov - To Fall Asleep
(2003) Arsis (Handbell Ensemble) - Sleep, Sleep, Little Mats
(2004) Randy Raine-Reusch - A Sleeping Rain
(2005) Eric Glick Rieman, Lesli Dalaba, Stuart Dempster - Bed Shadows Into Sleep
(2005) Frode Gjerstad, Eivin One Pedersen, Kevin Norton - The Sleep
(2005) Zeno de Rossi's Kriminal Museum - Sleepy Hollow
(2007) Tin Hat Trio - The Land of Perpetual Sleep
(2008) Anxo Invisibel + Miguel Molina - Sonata of Sleep (Konstantin Melnikov)
(2009) Volcano the Bear - Death Sleeps in My Ear
(2010) Giovanni Maier + Andrea Gulli - Sleeping Interlude
(2011) Pauline Oliveros + Jesse Stewart - Sleep
(2017) Samo Salamon + Howard Levy - Sleepy Burja

total time: 80'00


Overslept by Lucky.
Cover art by Ezgi Comert, "Sleepy Time", 2014 (taken from Saatchi Art).
Dedicated to sleepyheads.

June 13, 2025

LPH 845 - Lucky King Mix (1964-2017)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #845]


tracklist:

(1964) Paul Bley Quartet - King Korn (Carla Bley)
(1966) Eddie Cano Quartet + Nino Tempo - King Kong
(1974) Juju - The End of the Butterfly King
(1977) Barry Altschul, Sam Rivers, George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams - King Korn (Carla Bley)
(1977) Duck Baker - King of Bongo Bong
(1980) Hybrid Kids - Good King Wenceslas
(1986) Dark - King Krad
(1988) Bobby Previte Group - The King So Far
(1990) John Lindberg + Eric Watson - King Rat (Lindberg)
(1993) Yeti - The King Cannot Sing
(1995) Jon Rose + Otomo Yoshihide - Ping Pong, King Kong
(1999) Bob Ostertag, Otomo Yoshihide, Justin Bond - King Kong
(1999) Sainkho Namtchylak + Peter Kowald - King of Thoughts
(2000) Andy Biskin Quartet - Thin King Thinking
(2003) Henry Doktorski - King Boy (Guido Deiro)
(2004) Steven Bernstein Quintet - King Kong
(2005) Erik Friedlander - King Rig
(2006) Field Battle Moon Orchestra - The King of Suffering
(2008) Fred Frith - King Dawn (for Terry Riley)
(2008) Jenny Scheinman Group - King of Hearts (Lucinda Williams)
(2017) Kazuhisa Uchihashi - Opening Address by the King Pawn

total time: 78'45


Kinged by Lucky.
Original cover art by Andri Graphic (taken from Vecteezy).
Dedicated to No Kings.


June 08, 2025

LPH 844 - She Moves Me Strangely (1987-2017)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #844]


tracklist:

(1987) Mara - Yek Gholi Ghuseh
(1987) Syzygys - Lotus Rain
(1987) Wondeur Brass - La Marquise
(1988) UnknownmiX - The Beast
(1990) Hail - Racer Hero
(1993) Kampec Dolores - Három fényév
(1993) Pied de Poule - J'ai un caillou dans ma poche
(1993) The (EC) Nudes - Salvatore
(1995) Justine - Bon appetit
(1996) Sapho - Sois plus radical
(2002) Quintetto alla Busara - Zemrude
(2002) Vialka - The Vialka Marching Band
(2004) Ni Hao! - Ta-Tatata-Ta
(2005) Femmouzes T. - T'es dans ma tête et sous ma peau
(2008) Atsuko Kamura - Red Soil Soldier
(2008) Ilse Riedler + Strange Ahead - 5er
(2009) Ut Gret - Insect Probe
(2013) Dot Wiggin Band - Speed Limit
(2014) Akiko Yano - Ai no Taikyuu Test
(2016) The Tiptons Sax Quartet + Drums - Brass Monkey
(2017) Nadah El Shazly - Palmyra

total time: 78'33


Strangely moved by Lucky.
Cover art by Gianni A. Sarcone.
Dedicated to moving strangers.

June 07, 2025

LPH 843 - The Sweat (1994-2018)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #843]


tracklist:

(1994) William Hooker + Billy Bang - Sweating Brain
(1995) Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble - Don't Fret, Sweat
(1998) Tim Berne + Hank Roberts - Cool Sweat
(1999) Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, John Edwards, Louis Moholo - Toast Sweat
(2003) Lucas Niggli Zoom Ensemble - Sweet Sweat
(2005) Scott Rosenberg Quartet - Sweating Vertebrae Superior Cathedrals
(2007) William Parker Quartet - Groove Sweat
(2011) Burnt Sugar - The Cold Sweat Variations
(2012) Daniel Carter + Federico Ughi - Sweat It Out
(2018) Gordon Grdina Quartet - Night Sweats

total time: 80'32


Sweated by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to sweaty listeners.

June 04, 2025

LPH 842 - Lucky Dance Music (1955-72)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #842]


tracklist:

(1955) Chuck Berry - Maybellene
(1955) Fats Domino - Ain't That a Shame
(1956) Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
(1957) Larry Williams - Bony Moronie
(1957) Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
(1958) The Coasters - Yakety Yak
(1959) Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
(1959) Ray Charles - What'd I Say
(1960) Frankie Lymon - Little Bitty Pretty One
(1960) James Brown + The Famous Flames - Think!
(1961) Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Working
(1961) Ernie K-Doe - Mother-in-Law
(1961) Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
(1962) Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)
(1962) Booker T. + The M. G. 's - Green Onions
(1963) Rufus Thomas - Can Your Monkey Do the Dog
(1967) Sam + Dave - Soul Man
(1967) The Isley Brothers - My Love is Your Love (Forever)
(1968) Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
(1969) Sly + The Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher
(1970) Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up
(1971) Al Green - You Say It
(1972) Stevie Wonder - Superstition

total time: 69'29


Danced by Lucky.
Cover by Lucky.
Dedicated to lucky dancers.

June 01, 2025

LPH 841 - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (1993-2021)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2025; #841]


tracklist:

(1993) Josep Manuel Berenguer - El ponent excessiu
(1995) Brad Dutz, Jim Hershman, Ken Filiano - Excessive Ingestion
(1996) Peter Ecklund - Excessively Happy Time
(1998) Melt-Banana - Excess
(2000) Perry Robinson + The Gone Orchestra, Robert Mahaffay - Divine Excess
(2004) Maia Ciobanu - Excessive Piano II
(2006) Kipple - The Excess is Novel
(2007) Tetuzi Akiyama + Jozef Van Wissem - The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom
(2017) Robert McClure - In Excess
(2020) Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Gyan Riley - The Sweetness of This Excessive Pain (John Zorn)
(2021) Jeff Parker - Excess Success
(2021) Teresa Winter - Emptiness is Also an Excess

total time: 67'09


Excessed by Lucky.
Cover art by Elliott Hundley, "Clearing", 2019 (taken from long.list.short).
Dedicated to Boris Blank + Dieter Meier.