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Welcome to the audio home page for the CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, a weekly radio program/podcast featuring a heterogeneous, intra-continental mix of music and song. Various genres, forms, formats, and styles are featured, juxtaposed and intermingled, from free-jazz to field recordings. Listen here for a weekly mix of popular, classical, folk, religious, radical, experimental, spiritual, political, and poetic musics from around and beyond the globe. COB airs LIVE, Friday evenings, 9:00 - 12:00 midnight, Eastern USA time, on WRFI and WINO radio, ithaca/Watkins Glen/Odessa New York (www.wrfi.org). Online 24/7. Always free.
Episodes
Sunday May 29, 2016
Conference of the Birds, 5-27-16
Sunday May 29, 2016
Sunday May 29, 2016
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Conference of the Birds, 7-3-15
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
This week: Camaron; Pata Negra; Gato Barbieri w. Dollar Brand; Henry Threadgill's Zooid; BKO Quintet from Mali; Abdullah al-Ruwaished; Sohrab Fakhir & Ensemble; Nirmala Rajesekar; Amadou Sodia; vintage Joseph Jarman; Gbaya "chants a penser" from Centrafrique; Cesaria Evora w. Salif Keita; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Conference of the Birds, 2-14-14
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Saturday May 18, 2013
Conference of the Birds, 5-17-13
Saturday May 18, 2013
Saturday May 18, 2013
This week: SPECIAL THREE-HOUR EPISDOE: Jackie McClean x 2; Oana Câtâlina Chitu reprises Maria Tânase; Ketama w. Caetano Veloso; Ches Smith's These Arches; Jessia Pavone's Army of Strangers; Martinho da Vila; George Wassouf reprises Oum Kaltsoum; Albert Ayler; Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble; Willem Breuker Kollektiv live in Austin; Alice Fitoussi; Faiza Ahmed; Henry Threadgill; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?fref=ts Contact: confbirds@gmail.com *** Listen LIVE to COB on WRFI (Fridays 9-11pm EST) and recast on Geneva Community Radio (Sundays, 5:00-7:00pm EST). *** Send correspondence, discs, & music to Stephen Cope, Conference of the Birds, 208 Utica Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Saturday Jan 12, 2013
Conference of the Birds, 1-11-13
Saturday Jan 12, 2013
Saturday Jan 12, 2013
This week: Don Cherry w. Old and New Dreams ca. 1980; Kandia Kouyaté; Mamou Sidibe; Sylvain Leroux w. Karl Berger; Ambrose Akinmusire; Jayne Cortez (RIP) w. the Firespitters; James Falzone's Klang!; Alhali de Gourara; Tariqa (Hunagarian gnawa); Amina Alaoui w. Gharnati; Hadj Mohamed Bouzoubâa; Craig Taborn; Schoenberg; Cesaria Evora; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?fref=ts Contact: confbirds@gmail.com *** Listen to COB on Ithaca Community Radio (Fridays 8-10pm EST)and Geneva Community Radio (Sundays, 5:00-7:00pm EST). *** Info, Discs, & Music: Stephen Cope, Conference of the Birds, 208 Utica Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Sunday Oct 14, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 10-12-12
Sunday Oct 14, 2012
Sunday Oct 14, 2012
This week: Halim el-Dabh and the Barking Dog Sextet; Marcel Khalifé/ Mahmoud Darwish; Linda Oh w. Jen Shyu; Jason Kao Hwang; Euis Komariah w. Jugala Orchestra; Cesaria Evora w. Salif Keita; Teofilo Chantre; Taanchik (from Grande Comores); Hsaing Waing from Burma; Amadou Sodia; Dahmane el Harrache; Ustad Gulam Hassan Shagan (raga from Pakistan); Craig Taborn w. Lotte Ankar & gerald Cleaver; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@gmail.com *** Listen to COB on Ithaca Community Radio (Fridays 8-10pm EST)and Geneva Community Radio (Sundays, 5:00-7:00pm EST). *** Info & Promo: Stephen Cope, Conference of the Birds, 208 Utica Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2011
Conference of the Birds, 12-20-11
Tuesday Dec 20, 2011
Tuesday Dec 20, 2011
This episode now archived HERE or paste the link below: http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds12-20-11 This week: Cesaria Evora (RIP); vintage Rumba from Tanzania; Anthony Braxton's Compositon No. 16 (+101), arranged for quintet and conducted by Art Lange; vintage Rashaan Roland Kirk; Izaline Calister (vocalist from Curaçao); Mexican jazz from Tino Contreras; Max Roach sets Bruce Wright to music; much more... Playlists: http://confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com