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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
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...
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
This week: Rajastani Gypsy music; Dawn Upshaw performs Golijov; Teofilo Chantre w. Mayra Andrade; Dhoiffir (from Comores); Bonga; Beaver Harris 360 Music Experience w. Don Pullen; Eric Revis w Quartet; vintage Beth Carvalho; Gordon Grdina w. Mark Helias; Yusef Lateef; Ablaye Thoissane; Manitas de Plata (RIP); Nathaniel Mackey w. Royal Hartigan & Hafez Modirzadeh; much more...
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
This week: Albert Ayler does "Blues"; Skip James too; Orchestre Régional de Mopti; TriBeCaStan; vintage Salif Keita; 8 Bold Souls; Hector Lavoe; Milton Cardona; Sam Rivers w. Dan Pullen et al.; Mohammed Wardi; Nathaniel Mackey w. Royal Hartigan & Hafez Modirzadeh; much more...
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
This week: La Niña de la Puebla; Mayte Martin; Miguel Poveda; Ginesa Ortega performs La Falla; Webern;; Bartok; Trio 3 (Cyrille, Workman, Lake); fado from Clara Pires; Abdulrahim osman Chimane (Arabic music from western China); Jaipong from Java; David Friedman w. Geri Allen et al.; Maria Bethania; Mercedes Sosa; much more...
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014
This week: Dhaffar Youssef Quartet; Tito Paris; Omar Pene; Cecil Taylor; Matthew Shipp; John Carter; Teresa Cristina; Paulinho da Viola; much more...
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
This week: Cüneyt Sepetçi; Aïcha Redouane; Kahn Jamal; William Parker's Little Huey Creative Orchestra; Sonny Rollins w. Coleman Hawkins; Jakcie McClean w. Dexter Gordon; Sam Mangwana w. Franco; Simaro Massiya Lutumba; Ensemble Watmon Amone (Uganda); Los Muñuequitos de Matanzas; much more...
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
This week: Keith Kelly w. Quartet; VocColour; Candela; Mart'Nalia; Anthony Braxton w. Sonny Simmons et al.; malhoun from Majda el Yahyaoui; dimotika from Alka Fragkouli; archival Frank Lowe; much more...
Tuesday Sep 30, 2014
Tuesday Sep 30, 2014
This week:Sambasunda; Carmen Linares; Patato & Totico; Billy Harper; Dewey Redman; Sekou Keita; Aram Bajakian & Julia Uhlela; Juana la del Revuelo; Souad Mohammed; much more...