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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
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Conference of the Birds, 9-15-17
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
This week: Tani Tabbal; Karen Borce w. Jimmy Lyons et al.; A. K. Salim; Horace Silver; eco-possession music from Madagascar; Ethnic Heritage Ensemble; Emam Raam; Yaacov Bchiri; Gabi Luncă; Esma Redzapova; Mostar Sevdah Reunion; much more...
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Saturday May 27, 2017
Conference of the Birds, 5-19-17
Saturday May 27, 2017
Saturday May 27, 2017
This week: Alice Coltrane; Ioanna Georgakopoulou (rembetika); Roland Kirk goes Eulipion; Nasro salutes Hasni; Hasni x 2; Myra Melford; raga from Nirmala Rajeshekar et al.; Dali's Car (latter day); Nouela performs "Black Hole Sun" (RIP Chris Cornell); La Paquera de Jerez; Fatma Tuki w. Samir Tahar; Samuel Yirga et al.; Gualberto y Agujetas (flamenco y sitar); Hüsnü Senlendirici & Laço Tayfa (Turkish roma); much, much more...
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Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 4-24-12
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
This episode is now available for streaming or download at the Internet Archive HERE or paste link below http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds4-24-12 This week: Diego Amador w. Diego 'El Cigala'; Orchestra Arab de Barcelona; legendary Lolé; Mercedes Sosa w. Pata Negra; Marilyn Crispell w. Mark Helias & Paul Motion; vintage Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers; vintage Clara Nunes & Beth Carvalho; fado from Ana Moura & Mariza; Ballet National de Guineé Conakry; Kaira Ben; Don Byron salutes Diego Rivera; Sonny Fortune & Anthony Brown respirse Coltrane's Olé; Lila Downas reprises "El Quinto Regimiento'; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 4-17-12
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
This episode nw available at the Internet Archive HERE or paste the link below http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirdsPodcast4-17-12 This week: V. S. Narasimhan & Madras String Quartet; new Darius Jones; vintage Charles Tyler; classic Elis Regina; Rail Band sans horn section; Nahawa Doumbia; El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyate (Mandingo balaphone); Maciré Sylla; Abida Parveen; Tunisian legend Ahmed Hamza; vintage Akli Yahyaten (Algerian kabylie); Nathaniel Mackey w. Royal Hartigan & Hafez Modirzadeh; Jardel Caetano reprises Fernado Pessoa; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 4-10-12
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
This episode now available at the Internet Archive HERE or paste link below http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirdsPodcast4-10-12 This week: new Bonga; vintage Titina & Simentera (from Cape Verde); new music from Orquestra Arab de Barcelona & Chano Dominguez; Acholi music from Uganda; Oliver Mtukudzi: Leonard Karikoga; William Parker's Little Huey Orchestra; Gabriel Alegría's Afro-Peruvian Sextet; vintage Black Uhuru; new Sierra Maestra (from Cuba); new Mah Damba (from Mali); recent Djavan; vintage Orchestra Bembeya National (from Guinea); vintage Gnannas Pedro (from Benin); much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com Discs, promotions, etc: Stephen Cope,Conference of the Birds Podcast, 208 Utica Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Sunday Mar 11, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 3-13-12
Sunday Mar 11, 2012
Sunday Mar 11, 2012
This episode now avialalbe at the Internet Archive HERE or paste link below: http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds3-13-12 This week: Jeanne Lee w. Ensemble performing Gunter Hampel (livem New York, 1988); Algerian cha'abi from Reda Doumaz; new Kinhoua (Larry Ochs, Dohee Lee, Wilbert DeJoode, Scott Amendola); new Aster Aweke; new Mamani Keita; vintage Gyøorgy Szabados; malhoun from Touria Hadrahoui & Muhamed Essoussi; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Monday Mar 05, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 3-6-12
Monday Mar 05, 2012
Monday Mar 05, 2012
This episode now archived at the Internet Archive HERE or paste the link below: http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds3-6-12 This week: oud player/composer Anouar Brahem, Myra Melford w. Trio M (Mark Dresser & Matt Wilson); vintage Charlie Parker; be-bop from Arturo Sandoval (ca. 1992); Cuban son from Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñiero & Cuartto Patria (the latter w. Manu Dibango); fado from Ana Moura; Martiñho da Vila w. Katia Guerriero; trumpet player/composer Baikida Carroll w. Frank Lowe et al.; guitarist A. Spencer Barefield w. David Murray et al.; guitarist Duck Baker; Rabih Sager live; much more.. Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 2-21-12
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
This episode now available atthe Internet Archive. Click HERE, or past the link below: http://archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds2-21-12 This week: modern and traditonal Igbo music from Nigeria; vintage Sory Kandia Kouyate; Les Freres Guissè w. Paul Van Kermenade Quintet; vintage Billy Bang; Mark O"Leary w. Mat Maneri & Matthew Shipp; vintage Mohammed Abdel Wahab; early Morrocan cha'abi from Houcine Slaoui; recent Nawal; Ustad Ghulam Ali; Qawwal from Sabri Brothers; sufi music from Comores; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Tuesday Feb 14, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 2-14-12
Tuesday Feb 14, 2012
Tuesday Feb 14, 2012
This episode now archived HERE or copy and paste link below: http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds2-14-12 This week: new music from Amir el-Saffar & Tyshawn Sorey; vintage Steve Lacy; new Aminata Kamissoko & Madan Badjé Tounkara; Arabo-Andalusian music from Mohamed Mahdi, Habib Guerroumi, and others; Palestinian oud player/ vocalist duo w/ Adel Salameh & Nabil Salameh; Bahr Abou Greisha & Salwa Abou Greisha; Felipe Mukenga; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Saturday Jan 21, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 1-24-12
Saturday Jan 21, 2012
Saturday Jan 21, 2012
This episode now archived HERE or paste link below http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds1-24-12 This week: samba from Leci Brandão & Alcione; new Teofilo Chantre; The Musicians of the Nile (Le Musiciens du Nil) both with & w/o Salamat; Madrassati Salamia -- Sufi women from the island of Mayotte; Syrian clarinet player Kinan Azmeh w. Sri Lankan pianist Dinuk Wijeratne; pianist Nobu Stowe w. sound artist Lee Pimbleton et al.; vintage Joe Cuba w. Cheo Feliciano & Sextet; vintage and recent Senegalese mbalax; Ruben Rivera & His Salsa Sound Orchestra; vintage Sonora Ponceña; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com Discs, promo, etc: Stephen Cope, Conference of the Birds Podcast, 208 Utica Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.