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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
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
This week:Joe Henderson goes bossa w. quintet; Lee Morgan; Les Ambassadeurs x 2; bossa nova from Nara Leão; Chaparro y su Orquestra; Angel Canales; Maria Teresa Vera; Frequency (Nicole Mitchell, Edward Wilkerson, Harrison Bankhead, Avreeal Ra); Salamat; Uzbek tea song; Sun Ra in Egypt; much more...
Saturday Aug 30, 2014
Saturday Aug 30, 2014
This week:Kante Manfila w. the Diabate sisters; Anthony Braxton reprises Andrew Hill; Steve Lacy Octet; Luciana Berio (folk song); Esma; Coltrane; Abdel Karim Abdel Kader; Hafez set to music; Ahmad Zahir ("king of Afghani pop"); Parvathy Baul; Diedre Murray w. Fred Hopkins et al.; much more...
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
This week:Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit; Michelle Rosewoman; Marcel Khalifé; Lili Boniche; Rail Band; Pharoah Sanders; Ustad Rashid Khan; Avisai Cohen; Papa Noël; Alfredo Rodriguez; much more...
Wednesday Aug 06, 2014
Wednesday Aug 06, 2014
This week:Electric Kulintang (Susie Ibarra & Roberto Rodriguez); Houria Aïchi; Lebrijano; Don Cherry w. Krzystof Penderecki; Leandro Supacahy; Titina; Ivo Perelman; Degung from Java; David S. Ware; much more...
Saturday Jul 26, 2014
Saturday Jul 26, 2014
This week:vintage pre-Franco Franco and OK Jazz; cumbias from Valerio Longoria & Lisandro Meza; Kali Z. Fasteau w. Mixashawn Sorey; Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures; Safiye Ayla (Turkish vocal legned); Lalith Rao; Goerge Wassouf; Raphé´Malik ca. 1996 live; Fred ANderson & Hamid Drake; vintage Cassandra Wilson; much more...
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
This week:Charlie Haden (RIP); 'Macama Jonda" de José Heredia Maya perf. by Orquesta de Musica Andaluza de Tetuan et al.; Taylor Ho Bynum (from "Navigation"); Amira Medunjanin; narrative song from Orissa; João Braga reprises Vinicius Moraes/ Baden Powell; Portugese cante jondo from Kalifa w. Tomatito; José Mercé; Emani Shankara Shastri; much more...
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
This week: Maqam from Iraq; Qawaali from Amir Ali Khan (Pakistan); Marilyn Crispell w. Gary Peacock and Paul Motian; Donald Byrd & Booker Little; solo Oud from Iran; Sona Jobarteh; Avishai Cohen; Asha Puthli w. Ornette Coleman; Abbey Lincoln w. Max Roach; Roberto Roena; Félix Baloy reprises Adalberto Alvarez; much more...
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
This week: Mohammed Abdu live in Morocco; Bahr Abu Jerith; new Steve Lehman; Orquestra Imperial live; Celia Cruz w. Sonora Ponceña; Africando reprises "Moliendo Café"; Bi Kidude live; Black Star Band; Don Cherry; Ivo Perelman w. Whit Dickey, Matthew Shipp, Gerald Cleaver; Sun Ra live in Germany; Dahmane el Harrache; Boudjema el Ankis; much more...
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
This week: Martinho da Vila; Dany Silva; Pacheco y Melon; Mahlathini; The Mgababa Queens; Jon Jang reprises Mingus; Billy Hart; William Parker Ensemble at Vision Vest. '09; Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra; Nicolas Menheim; much more...
Sunday Jun 15, 2014
Sunday Jun 15, 2014
We had a few technical difficulties during this week's live broadcast. I've fixed most of them for the podcast. Please forgive the abrupt cut in of the voice after the first track and any other idiosyncrasies!
This week: Ahmed Adbullah; James Flazone; Szilard Mezei; Lebirjano (new); Inés Bacan; Mayte Martin; Tata Güines; LeBron Brothers; new Mary Holvorsen; vintage Fred Anderson; Nicole Mitchell's Ice Crystals; much more...