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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 Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
This week:Bella Bella; Youlou Mabiala; Dahmane el Harrache; Roma music from (the former) Yugoslavia; new music from Hafez Modirzadeh; Coltrane; Shepp; Marion Brown; Girija Devi w.Bismillah Khan; Chipukizi Rumba Band; much more...
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
This week:Baluchi music from Iran; Iranian Fusion from Shwan Tavakkol; Eric Revis Quartet; Tizjiz Munoz w. Marilyn Crispell, Henry Kaiser, et al.; George Crumb; Sadoon Jabbir reprises Nawel el Ghazali; Sara Tavares; Teofio Chantre; Neruda set to music x 2; Chico Buarque w. João Bosco; much more...
Thursday Sep 11, 2014
Thursday Sep 11, 2014
This week:Bako Dagnon; Super Mama Djombo; Fafa de Belem; Simentera; Randy Weston; Yusef Lateef; Fawzi al-Aiedy w. the Zar Trio; Pharoah Sanders w. São Palo Underground; Mal Waldron w. Steve Lacy Quintet; Manzanita; Joe Fonda w. Anthony Braxton et al.much more...
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...