54.3K
Downloads
404
Episodes
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
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 10-20-23
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from James Brandon Lewis; new quartet work from Ivo Perelman, Ray Anderson, Joe Morris, Reggie Nicholson; salsa from La Pembélé & Tabaco; legendary Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez; Jay Hoggard live; from Egypt: Fayza Ahmed, Ahmed Adaweia; Tunisian actress and singer Louisa Tunisia; vintage music from Ana Caram, Joãozinho da Goméia; vintage Dino Saluzzi; Prince Nico Mbarga & Shora Mbema; much more!!!!
Catch the BIRDS live on 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. 24/7 at
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/18007278/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
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
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
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
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 4-7-23
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Xiomarra Torres; Thelonious MonkNonet live in France; cross-cultural collaboration from Famoudou Don Moye w. Baba Sissoko & Maurizio Capone et al.; Bill Dixon; Group Lhssan Bouri (from Morocco); from Brazil: Silvio Fraga & Letieres Leite, Djalma Pires, and Jennifer Souza; Isaura Garcia; Gabriela Mendes; newly remastered Belita Palma; Nigerian disco from Florence Adouni; Anthony Williams; Tyshawn Sorey; Oriental Brothers International; Roberto Ottaviano reprises Dallar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim); Cheick Tidiane Seck reprises Randy Weston; El Gran Grupo (salsa from Colombia); 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/m/playlist/view/17219500
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 Mar 30, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 3-10-23
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Shirley Scott; Amir el Saffar & Rivers of Sound; Elis Regina welcomes Spring; Amazigh poetry/music from Rkia Talbensirt; Farida Khanum sings Bengali music; Tanya St. Val (vintage Zouk!); new music from Rajna Swaminathan; Jose Mauro; Abel Lima; new salsa from La Pambelé; Eric Vloeimans & Will Holzhäuser (trumpet/accordian duo); Orchestre Regional de Mopti; Kébendo Jazz; The Feel Trio (Cecil Taylor, William Parker, Tony Oxley); Carlo Actis Date; twaarab from Rajab Suleiman & Kithara; David Harvey; Lady Issa; Empopo Loway Deyesse; Don Pullen; RSS Boy 1 w. Waclaw Zimpel; and 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.
WRFI/WINO has improved and expanded its signal, and can now be heard on one of our frequencies from Northern Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario!!!
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/17105721/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 Mar 04, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 2-17-23
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vocal Raga from Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay; three versions of "Lamma Bada Yatathanna" (Dozan; Gordon Grdina's Haram; and Shaykh Sayyid al-Safti ca. 1930s; flamenco from Manuel de Angustías; Alfredo Tejada & Paco Vidal; new experimental musics from Patrica Brennan et al; Simon Lucaciu; Was Way Collectif from Mali; vintage Wassilou singers Nahawa Doumbia & Ami Koïta; jazz from Muriel Grossman; Tiziana Ghiglioni w. Steve Lacy et al. (jazz vocal); avant-garde jazz from Mario Pavone; Dave Holland; William Parker... and much more ...!
Full playlist HERE
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.
WRFI/WINO has improved and expanded its signal, and can now be heard on one of our frequencies from Northern Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario!!!
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/17020037/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 Oct 20, 2022
Conference of the Birds, 9-25-22 & 10-2-22
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
NEW: Two (2) Two (2)-Hour episodes, minus (-) some fluff and mumbling, equals (=) Three(3) Hours and 45 (forty-five) -ISH minutes of the BIRDS in chambers (etc.): This may or may not be the music format going forward!!! Comments, questions, concerns, complaints, commendations welcome: confbirds@gmail.com
STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER TRANSFORMATIONS, as COB looks to add writings— creative, critical, poetic, explorative, expository, extemporaneous, investigative, irreverent, critical, critical, imaginative, experimental, radical, reverent, responsive, dialogical, dialectical, liturgical, original, recovered, invented, revisioned or reversioned, etc. — to its archival, editorial, and curatorial repertoire: another means between, against, beyond, and/or through these late marketplace days and their tyrannies of coherence.
These weeks: Charles Rumback; Hanami Quartet; Steve Lehman and Sélébéyone; Star Feminine Band; Leonel; Gal Costa; Myra Melford; Caetano Veloso; Jose Mauro; José de Suza; Noah Barker; Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Zach Swanson, Jon Panikkar; SeaJun Kwon; Myra Melford; Pusaka Sunda Gamelan; Lionel Hampton; Charles MacPherson; Lloyd McNeil; Hank Roberts; Pharoah Sanders; Chico Buarque w. Maria Bêthania; Meliza; Somi; Steve Lacy w. Irene Aebu et al. much much more...!
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI at our new time Sundays 7:00-9:00PM (New York time), and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:
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.
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/show/92902/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting online.
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
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Conference of the Birds, 12-31-21
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This week: Lahsen Akhtab; Fatna Bent l'Houcine; James Brandon Lewis; NEW LIFE (Steve Reid, Brandon Ross, David Wertman); Mamy Kouyate; Burhan Öçall Les Espoirs de Corinthe; Etoiles de Boulintet; Laba Sosseh; Dexter Johnson; Vanessa de Mata; Dona Onete; Teresa Cristina; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast:
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.
PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/14974319/Conference-of-the-Birds
and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG
https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting online.
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