[JMP-01] - CD in 6-panel digipak
NYC resident William Parker and poet/playwright/author David Budbill, who spent the last 50 years of his life in the rural hills of Northern Vermont, had a very close creative relationship & friendship. They worked together on the CDs Zen Mountains Zen Streets & Songs for a Suffering World, and the DVD project On Being Native, among many other live performances.
This CD, What I Saw This Morning, presents their final work (on record) together, and presents 31 of David's poems as spoken word accompanied by William on bass, kemele ngoni, hochiku, shakuhachi, and duduk. An Interview between the two of them in four parts is interspersed as well.
It is a moving meditation on life, mindful passage through, and the inevitability of death; and is testament to the synergy between these two artist citizens from very different backgrounds.
This is a limited private press edition, and features cover artwork by the author's wife, Lois Eby, and liner notes by their daughter, Nadine Wolf Budbill.
1. Morning Meditation - 01:45
2. Whenever - 00:43
3. Seed Order - 00:54
4. On Growing Old - 00:41
5. This Simple Fact of Life - 01:27
6. What is Going to Happen to Me - 02:17
7. Fat Chance - 01:08
8. Cheery Little Ditty - 00:40
9. Pine Grosbeaks- 00:53
10. Interview Part One - 01:29
11. Winter Afternoon - 01:12
12. Old Dog - 01:39
13. Meditate on Your Own Death - 01:14
14. Being Taught Pain - 02:29
15. Paradox - 02:29
16. In a Nutshell - 00:37
17. Interview Part Two - 03:45
18. 72 is not 35 - 02:17
19. Begin Again - 01:44
20. The Ubiquitous Day Lily of July - 02:30
21. After Li Po - 01:14
22. Interview Part Three - 03:42
23. Hummingbirds All Summer - 03:04
24. Bamboo Wind Chimes - 02:17
25. September Light - 01:17
26. The Party - 04:02
27. Melancholy - 00:54
28. Six Horses - 01:03
29. Mid-September Pot of Flowers - 01:36
30. What I Saw This Morning - 01:44
31. Trying to Laugh at Myself - 00:30
32. An End To It - 01:18
33. Interview Part Four - 02:23
34. I Don't Want To Leave This World - 00:40
35. Cats - 01:12
A Judevine Mountain Production
Recorded by Ben Collette on December 8, 2014
at Tank Studio, Burlington, VT
Mixed and Mastered by Jim Clouse
at Park West Studios, Brooklyn
Cover Art, Outside the box, © Lois Eby 2014
All poems © David Budbill, www.davidbudbill.com
All music © William Parker, Centering Music (BMI)