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BOOK - 7 x 10", 120 pg, perfect-bound, private press, edition of 500 // Back In Stock! // We picked up -thee final box- on a lovely as ever visit with William on thee last Friday of 2023.
Throughout his life as an artist of increasingly great renown, William Parker has always made it a point to shine light on those who do not often receive recognition for their work. There have always been song dedications and odes to their inspiration in his liner notes. And, on a grand scale, there are the three extant volumes of his indispensable 'Conversations' books (published by RogueArt in Paris), which, through relaxed & in-depth interviews allow the artists to speak readily and freely in their own words.
'Voices In The First Person' uses the same approach, featuring William's interviews with – and plentiful images of work by – the visual artists Lois Eby, Anne Humanfeld, Jo Wood-Brown, and Marilyn Sontag. Each of these women have collaborated with Mr. Parker in various projects over the years. Lois Eby's work has graced a number of his album covers, including the 'Wood Flute Songs' and 'Voices Fall From The Sky' box sets, and Jo Wood-Brown's work is featured throughout the 'Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World' box set. Marilyn Sontag's work illuminates the cover+ of the Other Dimensions In Music album, 'Now!', created during the foundational days of AUM Fidelity.
While each of these artist's approaches are distinct, what all of these women share is the belief that art belongs to all people and is integral, essential even, to a well-lived life, as these interviews and their work itself reveals.
A wonderful book & beautifully printed.
With a long-form poem & introduction by William Parker.
Uncle Joe's Spirit House –
Pre-Order Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
William Parker Organ Quartet
$25 USD
On Being Native – Ltd. Edition DVD
$15 USD
Zen Mountains Zen Streets –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in slimline brilliant box
David Budbill & William Parker
$20 USD
The William Parker Sessionography
$50 USD
William Parker – Mayor Of Punkville
$11 USD
Voices In The First Person, Volume 2 [Art and Language of Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Alan Glover, Steve Swell, and Christopher Collins]
$25 USD
Universal Tonality – Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
$20 USD
Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World – [Volumes 1–10] – Strictly Ltd. 2nd [& final] Deluxe Edition 10-CD Box Set
$80 USD
Meditation / Resurrection –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 8-panel digipak
William Parker Quartets
$20 USD
Meditation / Resurrection –
Special Bundle >> 2x Deluxe 2CD Sets >>
William Parker Quartets
$30 USD
Mayan Space Station – Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
$24 USD
Mayan Space Station – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 4-panel digipak
$14 USD
Painters Winter – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 4-panel digipak
$14 USD
I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield – Ltd. Edition 2CD, in slimline jewelcase
$18 USD
Live/Shapeshifter –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 8-panel digipak
William Parker / In Order To Survive
$20 USD
Hope Cries For Justice –
Ltd. Edition CD, in gatefold wallet sleeve
Patricia Nicholson & William Parker
$10 USD
Bass Duo –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
William Parker & Stefano Scodanibbio
$14 USD
Stan's Hat Flapping In The Wind –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
William Parker feat. Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore
$14 USD
What I Saw This Morning –
Ltd. Edition CD in 6-panel digipak
William Parker & David Budbill
$10 USD
Great Spirit –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker / Raining On The Moon
$12 USD
For Those Who Are, Still – Ltd. Edition 3CD Box Set
$25 USD
Petit Oiseau –
Ltd. Edition Compact Disc
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
Corn Meal Dance –
Ltd Edition CD, in jewelcase w/ 20pg. booklet
William Parker / Raining On The Moon
$14 USD
Long Hidden: The Olmec Series – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe digipak & w/ bonus track
$15 USD
Sound Unity –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
O'Neal's Porch –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe digipak
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
Song Cycle –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker w/ Ellen Christi, Lisa Sokolov, Yuko Fujiyama
$14 USD
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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Jimmy Katz
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