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Welcome to the audio home page for CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, a weekly radio program/podcast featuring a heterogeneous, intra-continental mix of music, poetry, speech, and song. Released from the wan perniciousness of the ’global village’, the birds are assembled in concert/consort here for a free recital of juxtaposed, contrastive, intermingled musics, and for phases, forms, and statements of musical redress, recalcitrance, recumbence, renewal, revolt, repair, revolution...and more. Listen weekly for a new ensemble of classical, folk, ritual, spiritual, avant-garde, experimental, religious, popular, poetic, political, party-able, danceable sounds and songs, in various genres, forms, formats, and styles, ranging from free-jazz, flamenco, and Javanese gamelan to field recordings, folk songs, and Indian film music, to salsa, samba, disco, Raï, Algerian cha’abi and be-bop. Conference Of the Birds (COB) airs LIVE, Friday evenings, 9:00 - 12:00 midnight, Eastern USA time, on WRFI and WINO (Ithaca/Odessa), community radio for Central New York and the Finger Lakes. Broadcasting to the world on the net via www.wrfi.org and Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/wrfi-ithaca-community-radio/0N0fROGD#google_vignette. Episodes are available 24/7 online. Always free, commercial free, and free of commercial, corporate, or capitalist intent.
Episodes
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
This week: Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra; Alexis Zoumbas; Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra; Coltrane w. Cherry; James Brandon Lewis w. Thomas Sayers Ellis; Lata Mangeshkar; Techung; Abdoulaye Diabate; Amadou Balaké; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
This week: Actis Dato Quartet; Amina Claudine Myers; vintage Rembetika; Iannis Xenakis; Hamza el-Din; Tony Williams; Adalberto reprises Camaron; Dahmane el Harrache; Salamat Sadikova; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
This week: Camaron; Pata Negra; Gato Barbieri w. Dollar Brand; Henry Threadgill's Zooid; BKO Quintet from Mali; Abdullah al-Ruwaished; Sohrab Fakhir & Ensemble; Nirmala Rajesekar; Amadou Sodia; vintage Joseph Jarman; Gbaya "chants a penser" from Centrafrique; Cesaria Evora w. Salif Keita; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Saturday Jun 27, 2015
Saturday Jun 27, 2015
This week: Goran Kajfes Subatomic Arkestra; Pat Thomas w. Kwashibu Area Band; Barbara Donald; Joanna Amendoiara; Gisela João; Robert Ribeiro; Mayada el Henaway; Najwa Karam; Shoba Gurtu; Ketama; Jose Mercé; Ivo Papasov; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Saturday Jun 20, 2015
Saturday Jun 20, 2015
This week: new music from Rent Romus; Ornette Coleman RIP w. Marztte Watts, Neneh Cherry, Patty Waters, Claude Nougaro, Aisha Puthli, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Don Cherry, et al; Ahmed Adaweya; Mestre Marçal; Almir Guineto; Ryuichi Sakamoto, w. Paula & Jacques Morelenbaum, reprises Jobim; Ensemble Al-Ruzafa; E; Hadji Faye w. Etoile 2000; Ousmane Kouyate; Thione Seck; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday May 31, 2015
Sunday May 31, 2015
This week: Cubismo w. Saban Bajramoviç; Conjunto Tipico Criollo; Carlos Actis Dato; Horace Silver; Salsa Celtica; Bahr Abu Jerith; Khaled; Anthony Davis; Andrew Hill; Bombay Sisters; Pt. C.R. Vyas; new Henry Threadgill; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
This week:ghazals from Iqbal Bano, Mahwashl, and others; Dolphy at the Five Spot; Guadiana; Ramon el Portgues; Pete La Roca; Jaiping music from Java; Prepared piano from John Cage; Pete Seeger; Nikitas Tzamagkos; Asmahan; Mary Halvorson; Russ Johnson w. Myra Melford, Roy Nathanson, et al., Axel Dörner; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Monday May 11, 2015
Monday May 11, 2015
This week: new Myra Melford; new Steve Coleman; new Altan; vintage Thomas Mapfumo w. Hallelujah Chicken Run Band; x 2; Positive Knowledge; Aimé Cesaire; Los Van Van; Moisés Valle & El Indio reprise & salute Arsenio Rodriguez; Celia Cruz; Gerry Hemingway & Quartet; Youssou n'Dour; Max Roach w. Choir; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
This week: Agujetas; Jalal Chekara x 2; Najah Salam; Dahmane el Harrache; Mohammed Ilyas; Marisa Monte; Arlindo Cruz; Markos Vamvakaris; Rosa Eskenazi; Jackie McLean; Clifford Thornton; Joana Amendoeira; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
This week: Farid el-Atrache; Coumba Gawlo w. Passy live; Fatou Guewel; Bill Dixon; Ray Anderson; John Coltrane; Cassandra Wilson reprises Billie Holiday; Atahualpa Yupanqui; Itamar Assumpção; classic Franco w. Tabu Ley; Marlyin Crispell w. Tisziji Muñoz; Felix Baloy; Super Combo (salsa from Guadalpue); Amiri Baraka w. New York Art Quartet; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com