Zen Mountains Zen Streets, by David Budbill & William Parker

Zen Mountains Zen Streets

by David Budbill & William Parker

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Original press/print Boxholder Records label edition 2CD in slimline jewelcase brilliant box, with 6-panel folder insert featuring full credits, liner notes & select poems by David Budbill.

// The Boxholder label now long defunct & this set long time unavailable.

// 100 total crisp clean shrink-wrapped copies found in a recent Bronx, NY storage space sweep.

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	1.	Part I - Like the Clouds 15:24
	2.	Part II - Only the Brightness Itself 19:39
	3.	Part III - All of Us, So Briefly Here 10:20
	4.	Part IV - In Concert Together Making This Song 35:47
	5.	Part V - What Brings You the Most Joy? 08:21
	6.	Shakuhachi Flute & Pocket Trumpet section 06:50
	7.	Slit Drum section 04:08
	8.	After Reading Ou Yan Hsiu with Bass Solo 06:54
	9.	After Reading Ou Yan Hsiu with Valve Trombone Solo 05:49
	10.	Bugs in a Bowl and Out 04:21

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David Budbill:
poetry, recitation, whistle, bells, gong
William Parker:
bass, pocket trumpet, valve trombone, gralla, shakuhachi, slit drum

David Budbill spent over 40 years of his life in a remote northern Vermont village, partaking of that life in relative stillness, chopping wood for the fireplace in cold winters, and raising his daughter Nadine together with his wife, painter Lois Eby. In all of that time, devoted to writing poetry borne of the life he chose.

William Parker has spent the last 50+ years on the path of creating music whose purpose was to heal, and also raising a family, his daughter Miriam and son Isaiah together with his wife, dancer Patricia Nicholson. All of that time with home base being the Lower East Side of NYC.

Although they came from wholly disparate backgrounds, they had a strong artistic relationship and a mutually deep respect for one another's work. As Budbill wrote in the liner notes to this work, "Although we speak from vastly different places and through different instruments, our methods are the same. We both listen to an inner voice and then try to articulate what we hear coming to us from the other side."

This was their first of three works on record together.
Their final work on record together was What I Saw This Morning williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/what-i-saw-this-morning
They also created, together with Lois Eby, the DVD project On Being Native. The final copies of that special short-run private press edition are also now available on Bandcamp williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/on-being-native

credits

released June 1, 1999

This album features the entire live performance of October 16, 1998 which took place at The Little Theatre, Woodstock, VT.
Disc 2 also features excerpts from performances that took place in Burlington & Montpelier, VT on that same October tour.

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William Parker New York, New York

is a master musician–improvisor–composer–bandleader–griot–shaman–poet–community leader.

Featured here are the premier works produced for both AUM Fidelity & his own Centering Records imprint.

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shows

Jul 23

San Sebastian Jazz Festival - Jazzaldia

San Sebastián, Spain

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