[ CENTERING ] - BOOK - 5.5 x 8.5", 42 pg, perfect-bound, private press
// Thorough surprise storage space find of this scarce book by William Parker. Text written in 1999 and self-published circa 2011 in a very small edition.
// Perhaps the best genre-form description of this book is a science fiction novella–unique in Parker's published works–in which protagonist musician Bob Jefferson is connived into becoming the Mayor of Punkville. Although, with so much former science fiction long becoming frightening non-fiction in these rapidly ensuing years, William's brief introduction to this work remains best:
"A word is a sound. On paper it is an image that is both Black and white and in color at the same time. The Mayor of Punkville is a tone poem about the future of yesterday. It speaks about the salvation of humanity through music."
-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
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
Voices In The First Person [Art and Language of Lois Eby, Anne Humanfeld, Jo Wood-Brown, and Marilyn Sontag]
$25 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
Painters Winter – Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
Sold Out
I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield – Ltd. Edition 2CD, in slimline jewelcase
$18 USD
I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield – Ltd. Edition 2LP on Black Vinyl
Sold Out
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.
portrait by
Jimmy Katz
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