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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 Jun 01, 2014
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
This week: Marzette Watts; Chandan Dass (ghazal); Hariprasad Chaurasia; Abdullah Ibrahim; Hasan al'Ajamî (Sanaa from Sanaa); Frank Gratkowski; Kante Manfila; National Radio orchetra of Guinea ca. 1969; Chocolate; vintage Omara Portuondo; K. Frimpong; El Hadji Faye; much more...
Monday May 26, 2014
Monday May 26, 2014
This week: Ismael Miranda; fado from Duarte; Alcione; Mlimani Park Orchestra; East-West Collective; Leo Smith; Hawzi from Algeria x 2; Rosa Zaragosa; Lole y Manuel; Triana; Ricky Ford; Johnny Dyani; much more...
Monday May 12, 2014
Monday May 12, 2014
This week: Lou Harrison; Nikos Gouvas; Sambasunda (Jaipong); Hamza el-Din; Tony Oxley w. Evan Parker, Derek Bailey et al. (vintage); Ram Narayan; Aleksander Peçi; Rudresh Mahanthappa; Cheb Hasni; much more...
Sunday May 04, 2014
Sunday May 04, 2014
This week: Albert Ayler; Garrison Fewell salutes Ayler; Nicolas Menheim salutes Che Guevara; Papi Oviedo; vintage Lebrijano w. La Parrata; Camarón w. Royal Philharmonic; Edwin Colon Zayas; Nobu Stowe; much more...
Monday Apr 28, 2014
Monday Apr 28, 2014
This week: Jair Rodrigues; Sonora Ponceña; Esma; Hera w. Hamid Drake; Pandit Jasraj; Saleh al-Kuwaiti; Abade al Johar; Tinariwen; Atahualpa Yupanqui; Asmahan; much more...
Sunday Apr 20, 2014
Sunday Apr 20, 2014
This week: vintage Youssou n'Dour w. Etoile de Dakar; Naymakala music from Guinea; Peul music from Senegal; vintage Rail Band; Dona Ivone Lara; Fred Ho (RIP); Chinese Opera (extrait); legendary Fela; much more...
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
This week: Alfredo Rodriguez; Cecil Taylor; Elis Regna; Taarab from Rajab Suleiman (Zanzibar); Lebrijano; Remedios Amaya; Coltrane at Village Vanguard; vintage chaabi; Wagogo music from Tanzania; Ivo Perelamn w. Shipp/Parker; much more...
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
This week: Kandia Kouyaté; Tiécoro Sissoko; Takoutsia (Epirus); Dahmane el Harrache; Billy Bang; Pandit T. R. Vyas; Sonny Rollins & Don Cherry et al.; Amir el Saffar; Booker Little; much more...
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
This week: Muhal Richard Abrams w. David Moore; Kali Z. Fasteau; Boy Ge Mendes; Joao Donato Sonny Simmons, prince Lasha & The Bossa Tres; Bill Cole; Thelonious Monk Nonet; healing music from Baluchistan; Khan Jamal; much more...
Sunday Mar 23, 2014
Sunday Mar 23, 2014