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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 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
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 5-12-23
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: New music from Tony Malaby's Sabino; Violeta García & Camilo Ángeles; Bill McHenry; new South African choral jazz from Tumi Mogorosi; vintage music from the Sonny Criss Orchestra; Congolese vocalist Mbilia Bel x 2; Vincent Ahehehinnou; Sona Diabate (acoustic); John Carter; Ornette Coleman; Fatima Tiḥiḥit Mẓẓinl; Japipong from Idjah Hadidjah; new(er) flamenco/cante jondo from Maria Terremoto, Piculabe, David de la Jacoba & Pepe Habichuela, Manuel Lombo, and Luis de Perikin, María Terremoto, Anabel Valencia & Sara Sanchez; Jorge Pardo (experimental flamenco/jazz); 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/17364913/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
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 Apr 13, 2023
Conference of the Birds, 3-24-23
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Balinese Gamelan; vintage Adb el Halim Hafez; new music from Kaze & Ikue Mori; new Maui; new music from Wadada Leo Smith; new music from James Brandon Lewis; Ensemble Tiéng Hàt Quê Hùong (from Vietnam); Harold Vick & Orchestra; Jaska Lukkarinen Trio; Wayne Shorter x 2 (RIP); vintage Senegalese mbalax from Xalam; new, recent, and vintage Roma music from Romania (Romica Puceanu; Fărâmiță Lambru & Maria Tănase), the former Yugoslavia (Neat Gasi) and elsewhere (Kadri Moni); New from Mali: Coumba Sira Koïta; 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/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