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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 Jan 14, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 1-17-12
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
This episode now archived HERE or paste link below: http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds1-17-12 This week: Soldier String Quartet plays Leroy Jenkins; new Aminata Kamissoko (vocalist from Mali); vintage Ornella Vanonil; Mayra Andrade live ca. 2009; Sirone Bang Ensemble live at CBGB's (2004); rumba from Orchestre Reve, Ernesta Gatel et al.; vintage Papaito; guaracha from Andres Jimenez; vintage Tanzanian dance bands Dar International Orchestra & Mlimani Park Orchestra; congotronics from Konono No. 1; Milford Graves solo; much more... Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Conference of the Birds, 1-3-12
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
This episode now archived HERE or paste link below http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds1-3-12 This week: tribute to Sam Rivers (September 25, 1923 - December 26, 2011). Rivers as leader, composer, & accompanist w/ Rivbea Orchestra, Rivbea All-Stars, Dave Holland, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancocok, Joe Chambers, Ron Carter, Anthony Braxton, Adam Rudolph, Harris Eisenstadt, many others; royal court music from Uganda ca. 1952; new Teofilo Chantre; vintage Celia Cruz; gypsy vocals from Urs Karpatz & Ion Petre Stoican; gulf composer Abdel Rab Idriss; Jo'óansi nushmen from Namibia; more... Playlists: http://confbirds@blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
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
Sunday Dec 18, 2011
Conference of the Birds, 11-15-11
Sunday Dec 18, 2011
Sunday Dec 18, 2011
Thsi episode now archived HERE or paste link below http://www.archive.org/details/ConferenceOfTheBirds11-15-11 Zâr (avant Euro jazz meets South Iran's Shanbehzadeh Ensemble); posthumous Coltrane; Debademba (Mali/Paris); June Jordan reads at Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia (2001); Reggie Nicholson Brass Conept (2009); Clifford Thornton w. Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ca. 1975); Nuyoircan salsa from Wayne Gorbea; Altiery Dorival & Ensemble Nemours de Jean Baptiste (Haïti); raï from Nasro & Hasni; Matana Roberts, from "Coin, Coin"; Deidre Murray/ Fred Hopkins Quartet (ca. 1991); much more... Playlists: http://confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com
Saturday Dec 10, 2011
Conference of the Birds, 12-13-11
Saturday Dec 10, 2011
Saturday Dec 10, 2011
This week: vintage Leo Smith w. New Delta Ahkri; Other Dimensions in Music w. Fay Victor (reprising Trinidadian calypso); Cabrero & Cigala fuse flamenco & tango; vintage narcocorrido; Hector Lavoe w. Willie Colon; Joel Futterman/ Ike Levin/ Alvin Fielder trio; Zâr (jazz from South Iran); Persian piano from Morteza Mahjoobi; Teresa Cristina reprises Paulinho da Viola; much more... Playlists: http://confbirds.blogspot.com Contact: confbirds@yahoo.com