Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World – [Volumes 1–10]
Released January 29, 2021
Centering Records, 1020–1029
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TRACKLIST
Album/Disc 1 - Blue Limelight
featuring Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez: voice -&- Ensemble
[ Mara Rosenbloom: piano / Peter Dennis: bass / Scot Moore: violin
Reina Murooka: violin / Tina Burova: violin / Jim Ferraiuolo: oboe
Kevin Murray: drums / Jim Clouse: drums
Special guest, Jason Kao Hwang: violin ]
1. Listen - 01:26
2. Cosmic Funk - 04:24
3. I'd Rather Be - 03:51
4. A Great Day to be Dead - 06:09
5. Jenny's Interlude - 02:28
6. Blue Limelight - 06:17
7. Bennie's Tune - 07:53
8. Recall - 01:20
9. Kachina Song - 03:18
10. All I Ever Want - 02:20
11. Where the Angels Live - 02:27
12. Old Tears - 05:19
Album/Disc 2 - Child of Sound
featuring Eri Yamamoto: piano
1. Malachi's Mode - 04:59
2. Malcolm's Smile - 04:00
3. This Sweet Land - 03:50
4. The Golden Light (Hymn) - 03:52
5. Mexico - 04:43
6. Broken Promises - 04:55
7. Child of Sound - 05:15
8. Sky Falling - 04:53
9. Adobe House - 04:27
10. Rez Sunset - 00:36
11. Trail of Tears I - 01:23
12. Trail of Tears II - 04:46
13. Rez Sunrise - 05:53
14. Ascending Earth - 05:04
Album/Disc 3 - The Majesty of Jah
featuring Ellen Christie: voice, sonic collage & production on tracks 1 & 3
with Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson: trumpet & William Parker: bass,
donso ngoni, percussion, voice on "Freedom"
All tracks Mixed by Ellen Christi at Christi Sound Studio, NYC
1. Baldwin - 08:16
2. The Majesty of Jah - 08:21
3. Freedom - 08:56
4. Sun Song - 06:49
5. Numbers - 06:29
6. Letter To A Resurrected Slave Owner - 04:52
Album/Disc 4 - Cheops
featuring Kyoko Kitamura: voice -&- Ensemble
[ Matt Moran: vibes / Ben Stapp: tuba / Kayla Milmine-Abbott: soprano sax
/ Rachel Housle: drums / William Parker: bass, bass duduk
& fujara overtone flute on “If We Play Soft Enough” ]
1. Entire Universe - 13:36
2. Cheops - 13:51
3. The Map Is Precise - 08:03
4. If We Play Soft Enough - 22:17
5. Harriott - 12:51
Album/Disc 5 - Harlem Speaks
featuring Fay Victor: voice / Hamid Drake: drums, frame drum
/ William Parker: bass, guembri, balafon, gralla
1. Dancing at the Savoy - 04:45
2. Don't Sell My Soul - 11:53
3. Harlem Dances - 11:37
4. Harlem Speaks - 07:17
5. Paintings in the Sky - 0:23
6. Shutters as Windows - 18:17
Album/Disc 6 - Mexico
featuring Jean Carla Rodea: voice -&- Universal Tonality Ensemble
[ Brahim Fribgane: oud / Jackson Krall: tenor drum / Ariel Bart: harmonica
/ Ohad Kapuya: bass / Illay Sabag: piano / Kevin Murray: drums & percussion
/ Rachel Housle: drums & percussion / special guests Jim Clouse: tenor sax
/ Matt Lavelle: trumpet / Matt Lambiase: trumpet / William Parker: Serbian
flute & gralla on “Tilted Mirror”; kamele ngoni on “The Bleeding Tree” ]
1. Tilted Mirror - 27:12
2. Mexico - 17:11
3. The Bleeding Tree - 11:54
4. It Is for You - 09:55
AlbumDisc 7 -Afternoon Poem
featuring Lisa Sokolov: voice
1. Song to Lift Sadness (Morning) - 02:19
2. The Sky is Always Beautiful - 03:23
3. Morning Bird - 03:36
4. Rocket Man - 02:20
5. Essence Calling Out - 05:40
6. Afternoon Poem - 01:41
7. First Vision - 00:24
8. Green and Brown - 02:20
9. I Believe - 00:56
10. I Will Die for You - 03:05
11. Song for Patricia - 01:25
12. My Cup - 02:22
13. Silent Whispers - 03:27
14. It Would Never Be Long Enough - 03:07
15. Song to Lift Sadness (Evening) - 02:20
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16. Cloud And Sea Fading As Rain Falls - 7:31
Album/Disc 8 -Lights In The Rain (The Italian Directors Suite)
featuring Andrea Wolper: voice -&- Ensemble
[ Illay Sabag: piano / Ariel Bart: harmonica / Jim Ferraiuolo: oboe / Rachel Housle:
drums / Peter Dennis: bass / Ohad Kapuya: bass / William Parker: cornet ]
1. Visconti - 10:25
2. Fellini - 10:44
3. Pasolini - 06:07
4. Leone - 04:50
5. De Sica - 08:35
6. Rossellini - 09:05
7. Gospel - 05:12
8. Milano - 02:27
9. Lights in the Rain - 02:41
10. Antonioni - 06:03
Album/Disc 9 -The Fastest Train
featuring William Parker / Coen Aalberts / Klaas Hekman
1. The Elders at the Edge of the World part 1 - 04:07
2. Cultivation - 05:10
3. Deep Spirit - 02:18
4. Family Voice - 05:06
5. Listen to the Sky - 05:13
6. Sacred Prayers - 05:09
7. Host for the Anointed - 02:21
8. Bamboo Village - 04:41
9. Blessed - 04:57
10. The Flute Reaches Out - 04:00
11. The World's Fastest Train - 03:44
12. Joyous and Delightful - 06:47
13. The Elders at the Edge of the World part 2 - 07:44
Album/Disc 10 - Manzanar
featuring Universal Tonality String Quartet +
[ Melanie Dyer: viola / Jason Kao Hwang: violin / Gwen Laster: violin / Dara Bloom: cello
with William Parker: khaen, Navajo flute, fujara overtone flute on “Khaen” ]
1. Charcoal Paragraphs - 15:18
2. Khaen - 20:22
3. Lakota Song - 07:00
4. Manzanar - 08:48
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5. On Being Native - 21:15
[ featuring Jason Kao Hwang: violin / Jean Cook: violin
/ Nicole Federici: viola / Alexander Waterman: cello
with Daniel Carter: alto saxophone ]
Composed, Arranged & Produced by William Parker
for Centering Records, © Centering Music (BMI)
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jim Clouse
at Park West Studios, Brooklyn
November 2018 – February 2020
(except as noted in booklet)
All text [liner notes & lyrics] written by William Parker
(except as noted in booklet)
Paintings (and photograph with painted sylph) by Jo Wood-Brown
Box Set production & design by Steven Joerg