Conference of the Birds Podcast
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
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Cheikh Tidiane Fall w/ Bobby Few et al.; bop from Johnny Griffin; post-bop from Charles Davis; Szilárd Mezei w/ Quartet; new compositions from Jason Kao Huang and large ensemble; Ethiopian pop, new & vintage, from Tilahun Gessesse, Afework Nigussie, Abyssinia Band; trombonist Craig Harris & Nation of Imagination (Turkish/expeirmental vocal jazz); new music from Ivo Perelman w. Matthew Shipp...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian composer, conductor, old player, etc. Mohammed Abdel Wahab; Lebanese out player/vocalist Fayssal Al Massri; vintage Gulf Pop from young Rabeh Sager; Avreeayl Ra w/ trio live in Chicago; improvisation from Kaze w. vocalist Koichi Makigami; new piano trio from Myra Milford; vocalist Jeong Lim Yang; George Schuller's Circle Wide; Pakistani raga from Ustad Bade GHulam Ali Khan; Raza Ali Khan...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from guitarist Lingyuan Yang; samba from Neguinho da Beija-Flor; Bossa from Da Silva Do Sul Et Son Ensemble; Bridgette Fontaine; Paul Dunmall Brass Project; new music from percussionist Dan Weiss; classical vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi from Iraq; Senegalse salsero Laba Sosseh w. Super Star de Dakar; American salsa from Hector Lavoe; Sonora Ponceñal; Roberto Roena w. Adalberto Santiago; vintag...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Fred Jackson (vintage bop); Olga Chung, Munir Bashir & Rabih Abou-Khalil (mid-eastern fusion); Columbian sound system culture from Wulomei; reed player Mikko Innnanen w. Organ trio; new music from guitarist/composer/improvisor Mary Halvorsen;Portugues fado from Maria José Silva; long form Sonny Fortune; James Brandon Lewis salutes Mahalia; Gulf vocalist Abu Bakr Salem; Kurdish ney trio (Tri...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Jewish music from Iraq (Hakki Obadia); Md After Hussain; Colombian Cumbia from Lisandro Meza; Papa Brandao Y Su Ejecutivos & more from Panama; piano trios from Paul Bley & Myra Melford; Daniel Carter, Roy S. Campbell Jr. & William Parker (I,.e, Other Dimensions in Music); vintage Fairuz; new guitar music from Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris; new music from Immanuel Wilkins; Lusophonia: T...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vesna Pisaroviç (Croatian avant-jazz-folk vocals); Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio; a Pakistani Khayal from Ustad Saami; Bulgarian vocal music from Stamatka Kirilova & Staro Selo; Balouchi benju maestro Abd-ur-Ramian Surizehi; William Parker Quartet w. Leena Conquest; Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band; Greek songs from Gabriel Pantelides & Takis Vrakatselos; cante jondo from Duquende, Agujetas, Lebri...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage Indian Film music x 2 (Shanta Apte & Suraiya); Hindustani vocalist Shubha Mudgal;Raga Shuddah Kalyan performed by Gangubai Hangal; new music from Chad Khoury; new music from Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson; Kyriakos Sfetsas vintage Greek fusion); jazz from UK: Elton Dean; Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri reprise (radically) George Enescu's famous Oedipe; Freedom Art Quartet (the name ...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage dance music from l'Orchestre Massako; vocalist Namassa Dioubate from Mali; also from Mali: early recording of the legendary Rail Band; vocalists Mariam Kouyate & Gaoussou Kouyate from Guinea; also from Guinea:the legendary Camayenne Sofa; new music from Pitch, Rhythm, & Consciousness; Toto Necessitè & Etoile du soir from Haïti; fado from Rute Soares; Susana Baca, Eva Ayallon fr...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Qawma music from Hasan al-Ajami & Ahmed Ushaysh (Yemen); I. Wayan Sudiarsa Pacet w. Gamelan Suling Gita Samara (Bali); Lebanese vocalist Maya al Khaldi; recent compositions from Jen Shyu and David Leon (USA); trombonist/composer Joseph Daley; Kurdistani pop from De'Lori; Kai Winding & Curtis Fuller (more trombone); Tchangodei w. Itaru Oki & Kent Carter; the inimitable Lucha Reyes; bop from Dexter Gor...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS:Persian piano improvisation from Morteza Mahjoubi; Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell (piano duo); piano trio: Landaeus - de Heney - Osgood; Eric Dolphy goes solo; Charles Mingus & group in Argentina; new music from cellist Violeta García w. Camilo Ángeles; Balinese pianist U Yee Nwe; new work from Jon Irabagon; Carnatic vocal work from Roopa Mahadevan; Tulipa Negra & Afrika Star (from Cabo Verde);...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Blue Reality Quartet; Kash Killion & The Joel Futterman/Ike Levin Trio; Dorothy Ashby; Dewey Rodman w. Ed Blackwell (lots of new/avant jazz); Carnatic vocal work from S. Sowmya; Bhimsen Joshi (hindustani vocal); cante jondo from Enrique "El Extremeño"; Oula Baba Greek song); cha'abi from Akli Yahyaten, Dahmane el Harrache, & Boudjema el Ankis; bop from Elmo Hope (live at Rykers); compositionl jazz from Ch...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Algerian cha'abi singer Mohsaïd Oubelaïd; Moroccan cha';abi from Abdelkader Rachdi Balkan song from Kurbeti. Saban Bajkramoviç; Roma song from Vera Bila & Sendreiovci; Experimental Hungarian song from Kampec Dolores;l vocal jazz from Jeri Brown; David S. Ware as well as Zoh Aba and Sun Ra Arkestra; West African vocals from Salon Camara and Lassana Hawk Cissoko; Brazilian vocals from Marina Iris; samba from...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: violinist India Cooke; bop from Joe Henderson as well as Jackie McLean; new music from Karl Evangelista (w. Bobby Bradford et al); Lebanese vocalist Oumeima el Khalil; Lebanese legend Farid al Atrache; from Turkey: Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek; Mediha Şen Sancakoğlu; Gaye Su Akyol; Indonesian pop from Java (Ida Laila & Mus Mulyadi); recent music rom Md After Hussain & PAQ; from Poland, Wallow Zimpel's...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Bembeya Jazz National (vintage); expoerimental Yugoslav folk-jazz from vocalist Vesna Pisarović; Gabriel Zucker; Uyghur Musicians from Xinjiang; new music from Joe Fonda Quartet w. Wadada Leo Smith et al.; Kovász; Nour Symon; Phelimuncasi (experiemtnal hip-hop from Africa); Wadada Leo Smith salutes Angela Davis; Landaeus - de Heney - Osgood; Ernst Reijseger w. Harmen Fraanje & Mola Sylla; M'ma Sylla (vinta...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Malian vocalist Coumba Sibide; vintage congolese pop from Mpongo Love; soukous from Josky Kiambukuta & Madilu System; rumba congoliase from Emeneya & Victoria Eleison; cante jondo from Jose Mercé, Fernanda de Utrera, Potito (erstwhile flamenco nuevo vocalist) & others; samba from Noite Ilustrada, Maysa, Jorge Ben Jor & MPB from Nara Leão & others; border corrido ...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cante jondo (pop) from Love y Manuel as well as Naike Ponce and pianist Melodie Gimard w. El Chozas de Jerez (vocalist) Abdel Karim Alkabli from Sudan; Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh; Jason Moran (piano) w. Milford Graves (percussion); Patricia Brennan Sextet; Nicole Mitchell w. Ballaké Sissoko; from Mali: Papa & Kandia Kouyaté; Hawa Dramé; Warda in duet w. ...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Roy Haynes (revisted); Sun Ra w. Walt Dickerson (piano/vibes duo); new jazz from Jesica Jones Quartet; Tajik Disco from Khurmo Shirinova; experimental electric(ish) jazz from Janel Leptin as well as Mendoza Hoff Revels and Drazek Fuscaldo (erstwhile Moca Sica, w. Hamid Drake, Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones, and Joshua Abrams); new Pakistani vocal raga from Ustad Saami; Uzbek song f...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Congolese rumba from Moutouari Côme Kosmos; Youlou Mabiala; salsa from Raphy Leavitt; from Haiti: Ti Band L'avenir; new jazz from Kevin Sun; Ben Solomon; Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band; Beth Custer; vintage bop/rumba from Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab; Roma song from Pitsa Negri, Shrepsa Berisha, Bajrami Selime; raga from Nirmala Rajesekar; new music from Michael Bisio; Edobayashi mu...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Positive Knowledge; Sara Serpa w. Onisephone Nembe; James Brandon Lewis; Booker Ervin; Manzanita; el Lebrijano; Orquesta Aragon; Orquesta Ymbo; Finaçon; Chaou Abdelkader; Roberto Anglero; Kerfala Kante; and of course, so much, much more...
Episode culled from earlier programs ca. 2021.***
Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Cen...
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new/recent creative/improvised music from Henry Taylor; Kim Cass; Matt Mitchell w. Kate Gentile; Joel Ross;; Linda Sikhaklhane; as well as Joy Guidry; vintage music from Michael Cosmic, Phil. Musra, World's Experience Orchestra; vintage samba from Paulinho da Viola; Elton Medeiros; Aliade Costa; Moroccan melhûn (sung poetry) from Cheikh Mwijo; new Arabic song from SHIRAN (w/ El Khat)...
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