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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. The birds (so to speak) are here assembled in concert/consort on a weekly basis, most weeks, for a free recital of juxtaposed, contrastive, intermingled musics, and for phases, forms, and statements of musical action, reflection, critique, recalcitrance, joy, rest, prayer, revolt, renewal or repair, revolution.....and more. Each week (most weeks), find here a new ensemble/assemblage of classical, folk, ritual, spiritual, avant-garde, experimental, popular, poetic, political, 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, 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 Aug 01, 2015
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
This week: THREE FULL HOURS this week! Zâr; Agusti Fernández w. Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez; La Niña de los Peines; Carmen Linares; David Dominique; Henry Threadgill's Zooid; Nicole Mitchell w. Hamid Drake's Bindu; Wadi al-Safi w. José Fernandez live in Lebanon; Pedrito Martinez; Larry Harlow w. Ismael Miranda; Mayra Carded Valdez; Leena Conquest w. William Parker's Raining on the Moon; Social Justice Quartet; Belita Palma from Angola; Ti Paris from Haiti; much more...
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
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