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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
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
This week: El Chino; Freddie Hubbard w. Ilhan Mimaroglu et al; Krar Collective; Mulatu Astatke w. Either/Orchestra; Eric Revis Quartet; p[oetry from Sun Ra; Abdel Halim Hafez w. Abdel Mohammed Wahab & Orchestra; Bedzan Pygmies from Cameroun; Justo Bettancout; Virgilio Martí; Baza et ses Balldins ca. 1980; much more...
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
This week: Roza Eskenazi; Oum Kalthoum; Hsissen; Karl Berger Orchestra; Anthony (Tony) Williams; carnatic vocal from Nedunuri Krishnamurthy; William Parker live in Houston; Ami Koita; Les Amazons de Guinea; much more...
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
This week: Salim Halali in Algeria; Coltrane live at Temple, 1966; Loufti Bouchnak; 2 from Zimbabwe; Max Roach sets Bruce Wright to music (COB xmas custom); Noah Howard; Don Cherry; vintage Ornette; vintage Ismael Miranda; much more...
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
This week: Lakis Halkias; vintage Esma; Istanbul Oriental Ensemble; James Falzone; Bebo y Cigala; Musthttp://afa Kandirali; Oana Cătălina Chiţu; Maria Tanase; Celia Cruz y Johnny Pacheco; Cedar Walton live in SF (1977); Charlie Parker; much more...
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...