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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
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...