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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
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 7-14-23
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Smiley Winters; Thurman Barker et al.; Susana Baca; Ana Moura; Rita Payés & Elisabeth Roma; Jovelina Perola Negra; Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes; The Barry Harris Sextet; Beaver Harris + Don Pullen 360 ° Experience; May Damba; Kerala Kante; Fred Moten w. Brandon López & Gerald Cleaver ; JazzPoetry Ensemble w. Kidd Jordan; Purnima Chaudhuri,; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17621152/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 7-7-23
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cha'abi from Guerouabi; Roma sng from Rromnano Dives, B ajrami Selime, Trio Zajaze, and others; Kudsi Ergúner with jazz ensemble; Simon Barker, Henry Kaiser, Bill Laswell & Rudresh Mahanthappa; Sambeco (from Grande Camore); from Senegal: Kine Lam & Youssou n'Dour; from Haïti: Ensemble Etoile du Soir, Les frères Déjean; Horace Tapscott & the Pan_African People's Orchestra (vintage); Jacaques Coursil Unit (vintage); Other Dimensions in Music live in France; Peter Brötzman (RIP)( with Oxbow; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17592129/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 6-16-23
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Clifford Jordan; Diego "el Cigala" in Mexico; Orlando Contreras; cumbia from Pedro Laza y Sus Pelayeros, Lisandro Meza, and others; cumbia from Charles Mingus; new Henry Threadgill; Bruce Ditmas, David Eyges & Paul Bley Trio; Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano; Bobby Few with Noah Howard & Zusaan Kali Fasteau; Ahiyad Ait Mimoun; Moroccan song from Mahmoiud al Idrissi; taarab from Zuhura Swaleh & Party; rai from Cheba Zohra; Idris Ackamoor & The Collective; classic John Coltrane Quartet; Archie Shepp reprises Coltrane; Tchangodei w. Shepp and Mal Waldron; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17508055/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 6-30-23
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage Guinean Authenticité from Kante Manfila and Camayenne Sofa; Ouzbek music from Khwarazm; vintage refusal ("No Me Llores") from legendary Cuban guitarist/vocalist/composer Arsenio Rodriguez; James Blood Ulmer's "Captain Black" explored, extended, expanded, retitled by Rashid Ali w. Quartet (live in Finland ca. 2007); instrumental flamenco guitar improvisation by Manzanita; recent and not-so-recent canto jondo from El Torta and David Palomar; fados from Chico Buarque/Carlos do Carmo (duet) and João Braga; MPB from Jussara Silveira, samba from Clementina de Jesus; Maria Bethania renders Fauzi Arap lines in song; Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music; vintage Bobby Hutcherson; Farida Parveen sets Bengali poet Lalon Shah to music (performed/recorded live in Bangledesh); Bengali /Baul minstrel song from Purna das Baul; and, as ever, much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17563836/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 6-23-23
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Saban Bajramovic; Mal Waldron Quintet w. Steve Lacy; Culture Musical Club; Giota Lydia; Katia Grey; Sikhs of the Bangra Temple, Delhi; Lahaoula ou Khlas; Dahmane el Harrache; BIll Cole's Untempered Ensemble; Diaba Koita; Ferkat Al Ard ; Revolutionary Ensemble; Lemzo Diamono; Mbilia Bel; Rodney Chapman; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17535878/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 5-26-23
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Nawal; Gamelan from Gendang Pencak Group & Tukang Tabuh; Javanese Tanjodor music from Tanji Modern Grup Marga Luyu; Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble; Brazilian pop (vocals) from Elba Ramalho & Elis Regina; bop from Booker Little; saxophone raga (Nattai) from Kadri Gopalnath; Greek clarinet virtuoso Nikos Gouvas; vintage Greek & Greek-American popular music (Rembetiko and otherwise) from Dimitris Mystakidis & Nikos Pourpourakis (et al); solo bass from Bruno Råberg; Uyghur music from Sanubar Tursun; Sudanese pop from Abdul Aziz Mohammed Daoud; Congolese pop from Les Bantous de la Capitale; vintage Akendengue; new Nick Dunston; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17422135/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 5-19-23
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Amadou Balaké (from the last record); Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society; Taureg song from Teita Lebid; Frank Mimita (Vintage Angolan pop); from Greece: Trionfas, Greek Fusion Orchestra, Christos Nikolopoulos & Yiorgos Saris; acoustic Mahavishnu; vintage George Sams; vintage Paul Motion; vintage Roland Kirk (pre-Rahsaan); ecstatic Baluchi music from Abdorahman Surizehi, Morâd Salazehiu; Shirley Scott & George Coleman, live at the Left Bank (newly rediscovered); Sory Kandia Kouyaté; Shundu Wembadio; poems from Anne Waldman; Jaki Byard w. Jon Farrell; much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17393481/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Sunday May 28, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 5-5-23
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Jon Jang resets Chinese love song; vintage song (ghazal, film music, and more) from India and Pakistan: Runa Laila, Kanika Banerjee (singing a poem of Atul Prasad Sen's), Malika Pukraj; Fred Moten (poetry) w. Brandon López & Gerald Cleaver; African salsero Laba Sosseh; newly released recording g of Sonny Stitt live (at the Left Bank, Baltimore); Ray Lema; some Mingus for good measure; Peter Maceachern Trio; legend of Gulf pop, Saudi vocalist Mohammed Abdu, recorded live ca. 1990; Kalaprusha Maurice McIntyre; Bavon Marie Marie & l'Orchestre Negro Succés; Le T.P.O.K. Jazz (w. Franco!); much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17336231/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 4-21-23
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Arabo-Andalusian vocalist Nassima; dhrupad from le famille Mallik; vintage soukous from Papa Wemba; from Angola: Sara Chaves; Rob Brown and Daniel Levin (duo); new Music from Jane Bunnett et al. new music from David Virelles et al.; salsa from Sonora Ponceña & Tony Pabon; Jorge Humberto (Cape Verde) address Covid; Archie Shepp w. Jeanne Lee teal. (ca. 1969); new music from OGJB Quartet and Sonic Liberation Front (Both w/ Oliver Lake); 2 from Sélébéyone; Taylor Ho Bynum; and much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17277879/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Saturday May 06, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 4-14-23
Saturday May 06, 2023
Saturday May 06, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Rent Romas Life's Blood Ensemble; Rajna Swaminathan; Chris Schilder (aka Ibrahim Khalil Shihab) Quintet; Tuareg pop from Kader Tarhanine; vintage Egyptian pop from Ettab; Sudanese pop from Abdel Aziz El Mubarak; Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora; vocal raga from Bhimsen Joshi; raga on clarinet from Jaffar Hussain Randhawa; vintage bop from The Young Lions (Wayne Shorter, Frank Strozier, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath and Louis Hayes); more bop from Lee Morgan and Bobby Jackson; vintage Ethio pop from Alemayehu Eshete and Ayalew Mesfin; Abyssinia Band; compositional post-contemporary jazz from Charles Brackeen; from Brazil: Maria Rita, Mallu Magalhães, Marilia Medalha; plus much, much more ...!
LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.
via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/
via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580
Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17248590/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com