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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
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
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
This week: new music from AACM Experimental Ensemble; Reem Kelani; Waclaw Zimpel, w. Perry Robinson, Rafael Roginski, Michael Zerang perform music from Yemenite Jews; Kassé Made Diabaté; Fosfortio; Cartola; Graça Braga performs Candeia; Andrea Parkins w. trio; new Charles lloyd; John Escreet w/ Evan Parker et al.; Afghani ghazal from Mahwash; Sudha Raghunathan; Abed Azrié reprises Hafez and Goethe; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Saturday Apr 18, 2015
Saturday Apr 18, 2015
This week: Co-histed with Barry Maxwell. Amos Mor; Steve Lacy; Sun Ra; Fanta Damba; Loredonna Berte; Abdullah Ibrahim; Les Grand Ballets d' Afrique Noire; Munir Bachir; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Sunday Apr 05, 2015
Sunday Apr 05, 2015
This week: Ed Blackwell x 2; Dewey Redman; José Mercé; Fernanda de Utrera; Orquestra Vévé; K. Frimpong; Ellington w. Sathima Bea Benjamin; Triana (Andalusian flamenco-rock); Archie Shepp; Charles Brackeen; Les Amazones de Guinée; Abida Parveen; much more...
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
This week: Jalal Chekara and Orquestra Chekara de Tetuan w. Morente; José Mercé; Manolo Sanlúcar; Tisziji Muñoz w. Marilyn Crispell; Jamaladeen Tacuma re-arranges Coltrane; Kassé Made Diabate; Nahawa Doumbia; Sun Ra; Miriam Makeba in Guinea; Ablaye Thiossane; much more...
Monday Mar 23, 2015
Monday Mar 23, 2015
This week: Kamau Brathwaite reads; Nicolas Guile reads; Amapara Ochoa salutes Nicolas Guillen; Threadgill, DeJohnette, Mitchell et al. live in Chicago; Oum Kalthoum; Nidaa About Mrad; Pepe Marchena w. Paquito Simon; recent Balinese gamelan; Aruna Siarem (Sayeerum); much more...
Sunday Mar 08, 2015
Sunday Mar 08, 2015
This week: James Brandon Lewis w. Thomas Sayers Ellis; Mingus live; Orchestre Baobab; Cuarteto Patria; Nicolas Menheim; James "Blood" Ulmer; Beaver Harris; Najat Aatabou; much more...
Sunday Mar 01, 2015
Sunday Mar 01, 2015
This week: Giuseppe Ungaretti w. Vinicius de Moraes; samba from Rafael Ribeiro, Seu Jorge, and others; Steve Lacy sets Lao Tze to music; vintage Noah Howard; Jemeel Monodoc & the Jus Grew Orchestra live at Vision Festival 2001; Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Geri Allen salutes Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, & Herbie Hancock; Aïda Nassim live in Tunisia; Mina ca. 1966; m'balax from Thione Seck & Lemzo Diamono; much more...
Sunday Feb 15, 2015
Sunday Feb 15, 2015
This week: Agujetas & Gualberto; Dona Ivone Lara w. Aniceto do Imperio; Bezzera da Silva; James Brandon Lewis w. trio; Davis S. Ware w. trio; John McGlaughlin w. Tony Oxley et al.; Sultan khan (sarangi) w. Zakir Hussein (tabla); Malili Rajurkar; Mathila music (Vidyapati poem) from North India; Celeste Mendoza w. Sierra Maestra; much more...
Thursday Feb 12, 2015
Thursday Feb 12, 2015
This week: Akendengue x2; Eliza Soares; Elis Regina; Tarbaby w. Oliver Lake & Marc Ducret; Girma Yifrashewa; Steve Kuhn Trio (w. Pete LaRoca & Steve Swallow); Fatoumata Diawara; The Gathering salutes/reprises Horace Tapscott; Szilard Mezei; Booker Little & Booker Ervin; Adriana Calcanhotto; much more...