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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.
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 Oct 21, 2014
Conference of the Birds, 10-17-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 10-10-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 10-3-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 9-26-14
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...

Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Conference of the Birds, 9-19-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 9-12-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 9-5-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 8-29-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 8-22-14
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
Conference of the Birds, 8-15-14
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...
