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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 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...
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...