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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 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...