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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 Jan 31, 2015
Saturday Jan 31, 2015
This week: Maria Alice; Tribesmen (w. Pete Wyoming Bender); Albert Ayler; Michael Bisio x 2: w. Brian Groder Trio & Matthew Shipp Trio (reprising Duke); Jacques Coursil remembers the Trail of Tears; Odilio Gonzalez; Oscar d'Leon; Salsa Celtica; DD Synthesis; Larry Ochs/Donald Robinson; Ethiopian rock from Jano; qawwal from Aziz Mian; much more...
Sunday Jan 25, 2015
Sunday Jan 25, 2015
This week: Alban Berg's "Lyric Suite" perf. ca. 1950; Julio Cortázar & tango; Astor Piazzolla; Mohammed Hayani; Art Blakey; Dinah Washington; Mario Pavone; Glenn Spearman w. John Heward; Aflak (Moroccan pop); Kerfala Kante; Adja Soumano; much more...
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
This week: El Chino; Freddie Hubbard w. Ilhan Mimaroglu et al; Krar Collective; Mulatu Astatke w. Either/Orchestra; Eric Revis Quartet; p[oetry from Sun Ra; Abdel Halim Hafez w. Abdel Mohammed Wahab & Orchestra; Bedzan Pygmies from Cameroun; Justo Bettancout; Virgilio Martí; Baza et ses Balldins ca. 1980; much more...
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
This week: El Chino; Freddie Hubbard w. Ilhan Mimaroglu et al; Krar Collective; Mulatu Astatke w. Either/Orchestra; Eric Revis Quartet; p[oetry from Sun Ra; Abdel Halim Hafez w. Abdel Mohammed Wahab & Orchestra; Bedzan Pygmies from Cameroun; Justo Bettancout; Virgilio Martí; Baza et ses Balldins ca. 1980; much more...
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
This week: Roza Eskenazi; Oum Kalthoum; Hsissen; Karl Berger Orchestra; Anthony (Tony) Williams; carnatic vocal from Nedunuri Krishnamurthy; William Parker live in Houston; Ami Koita; Les Amazons de Guinea; much more...
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
This week: Salim Halali in Algeria; Coltrane live at Temple, 1966; Loufti Bouchnak; 2 from Zimbabwe; Max Roach sets Bruce Wright to music (COB xmas custom); Noah Howard; Don Cherry; vintage Ornette; vintage Ismael Miranda; much more...
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
This week: Lakis Halkias; vintage Esma; Istanbul Oriental Ensemble; James Falzone; Bebo y Cigala; Musthttp://afa Kandirali; Oana Cătălina Chiţu; Maria Tanase; Celia Cruz y Johnny Pacheco; Cedar Walton live in SF (1977); Charlie Parker; much more...
Tuesday Dec 16, 2014
Tuesday Dec 16, 2014
This week: Mbilia Bel; Linda Oh w. Jen Shyu; Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings; Tartit; Teofilo Chantre; Hafez Modirzadeh; Amandio Cabral; Charles Lloyd reprises Marvin Gaye; Joe Henderson; Garifuna Women's Collective; much more...
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
This week: Henry Cowell; Carsten Dahl; Noura Mint Seymali; Mary Halvorson; Ammar Ezzahi; Saleh el Ouergli; raï from Khaled & Narso; Tom Varner salutes Don Cherry; music from Northern Iraq; flute music from Cameroun; much more...
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
This week: N'dongo Lo; Aïda Nassim; Abdelhadi Belkhayat; Aziza Brahim; Twins Seven Seven; Pierre Dørge remembers John Tchicai; Fay Victor & Ensemble; Rabih Abou-Khalil "Em Portugues"; Jason Adasiewicz; much more...