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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 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
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...