Conference of the Birds Podcast

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian composer Nadah El Shazly; Congolese rumba from Bopol Mansiamina and Tabu Ley Rocheareau; Italian songstress Ornella Vanoni; vintage  David S. Ware; recent Roscoe Mitchell (w. trio); brand new music from Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones; Kuwait/gulf singer Rabab; Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton in Copenhagen; Kenny Duorham goes Afro-Cuban;  Cuban legend Pío Leyva; also from, Cuba ; Guillermo Pompa Montero...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from the Blue Reality Quartet and Bobby Zankel & The Wonderful 8; vintage music from Dorothy Ashby, Dewey Redman & Ed Blackwell,  Eric Dolphy & Booker Little; cante jondo from Enrique "el Extremeño" as well as Niña de la Puebla  & La Paquera de Jerez; cha'abi from Boudjema el Ankis & Ali Yahyaten; from Haiti: Tabou Combo & Toto Bissainthe;  much, much more!!!!  

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cante jondo from El Lebrijano; Lisle Ellis "What We Live" salute Lyn Hejinian; rembetika from Marika Papagika; Dominic Lash Quartet;  Roy Haynes w. Roland Kirk et al; salsa from Orquesta Harlow (saluting Arsenio Rodriguez) and  Orquesta Akokán; Leon Keita (vintage music from Mali); Lassana Hawa Cissokho; Billie Harris; from Morocco: Haja El Hamdaouia, Najaf Aatabou, melhún singers Abdesalam Khaloufi and Muhammed ...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Roma song from Vera Bila & Kale and Ljiljana Buttler; Aurora Vargas and El Torta (cante jondo); new music from Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings; new music from James Brandon Lewis; new music from Mali Obomsawin; new music from Roman Norfleet; vintage Art Ensemble of Chicago; Jim Pepper; Charles Lloyd; rare Moroccan orchestral/vocal  music feat. Mohammed Lahyani; Oranese song from Algeria w/ Ahmed ...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: recent (new) music from Matana Roberts; Mary Halvorson; vintage bop/post-bop from Fred Tompkins; Charlie Rouse; Lee Morgan live at the Lighthouse; cante jondo from El Cigala, "El Negri" and El Cabrero; Balinese pop from Detty Kurnia; Abida Parveen from Pakistan;  salsa from Orquesta Cervantes; vintage music from Mali (Rail Band du Mali); NIU RAZA;  much, much more!!!!  

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Raga (dhrupad) from Nirmalya Rey; Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana; vintage Balkan pop from Ramize Caka & Sala Bekteshi; recent Balkan song from Merita Halili;new music from Gordon Grdina's The Marrow featuring vocals from Fatheih Honari; Zoh Amba w/ Chris Corsano, Bill Orcutt; vintage Noura; cha'abi from Dahmane el Harrache; rembetika from Sophia Bilides, Eva Styl , Vassiis Tsitsanis;   cante jondo from Fosfortio,...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Oud based post-bop from Ahmed Abdul-Malik; new music from NIU RAZA; Congolese vocalist Youlou Mabiala; contemporary Gulf singer and oud virtuoso Adade al Johar; Egyptian vocal w. out from Waed Bouhassoun; vintage  Taarab (Zanzibar) from Malika & Party; new Asher Gamedze; new NIU RAZA; Malagasy from Jojoba and Ny Malagasy Orkestra; going back to the luminaries: Dizzy Gillespie (w/ Lilian Terry); Thelonious Mon...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS:  Kurdish and Hunza music from Pakistan; Abdul Ghani Irani; raga from Prabha Atre; early Albert Ayler; Joe McPhee w. Bill Smith Ensemble; from Mali:  Babani Koné,  Kaniba Ouele Kouyate; from Guinea: Sona Diabate & M'mah Sylla; Oulaya from Tunisia; new Avram Fefer;  much, much more!!!!  

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS:  Modern and classical Tunisian music w. vocalist Hédi Juini and Khemaïs Tarnane conducting the Orchestre et chorale de la Radio Tunisienne; vintage Greek pop from Oula Baba;  Gulf singer Abdel Karim Abdel Kader; flamenco from Mari Peña; flamenco jazz from Pedro Iturralde; new Amazighes music from Rkia Talbensirt; Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble (in Berlin); new Joseph Daley; new Sélène Saint-Aimé; Nabintu Diakite ...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS:  Loverly (feat. Maggie Nicols); Greek song with  Katy Grey; Ioanna Georgakopoulou; and others; Oum Koulsum!!! vintage Ronnie Boykins; music from Rosi Hertlein's Improvising Chamber Ensemble; vintage performance from Joseph Bowie - Luther Thomas at Moers; Manno Charlemagne; Macire Sylla; Adedeje;  pianist Marta Sanchez & group ; pianist Masumbi Kikuchi w. saxophone player Greg Osby; Isaura Garcia; brand new Ma...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Johnny Griffin;music from Java, Bali, and Vietnam,  including Gambang Kromong Drama Bersatu; new music from Blue Reality Quartet; new music from Eri Yamamoto; Roma rumba from El Noi (Spain); recently remastered: John Coltrane; radical black music from Ancient Infinity Orchestra and Infinite Sound; recent cantle jondo/flamenco from Jose de los Camarones; salsa from Santiago Ceron; vintage vocals from Mali ...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Cante jondo from el Chocolate and Carmen Linares; Niama Ababsa (Algerian pop); Lebanese song from Salwa el Katrib; Tatyana Surbinska & Ensemble Pirin (vintage Balkan Roma song); new and old Rembetika from Marika Politissa & Dimitris Mystakidis (w.  Eleni Vitali); esraj playing from Ariana Suta;  raga on veena from Nirmala Rajeskar; Ibro Diabate (Guinea), Assana Mboup (Senegal); Netsennet Melese (Ethiopia)...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Cecilia Barraza from Peru;  radio from Lenita Gentil & Rute Soares;  from Brazil: Alaide Costa plus new music Mauro Diniz with  Brussa Cordeiro & Grupo Purarmonia; new piano/.flute music from Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins;  Gabriel Zucker w/ Tyshawn Sorey, Adam O'Farrill & Eric Trudel; sung poetry from Szilárd Mezei Vocal Ensemble;   new jazz  from Kenneth Jimenez; Billy Harper live in Euro...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Karl Evangelista, Mendoza Hoff Revels; Diego Amador; Matthew Shipp; Kadef Abgi; quiet music from Angelica Sanchez (w. Trio); Hungarian post-bop from Borbély Mihály; vintage cante jondo from Dolores de Cordoba; Lole y Manuel; arabic song from Tallal Madah; experimental mouwshahfrom Mahmoud Turkmani; weeping song fro Burma./ Myanmar; from Mali: Idrissa Soumaoro, Rail Band; from. Guinea: Inna Baba Cou...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from James Brandon Lewis; new quartet work from Ivo Perelman, Ray Anderson, Joe Morris, Reggie Nicholson; salsa from La Pembélé & Tabaco; legendary Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez; Jay Hoggard live; from Egypt: Fayza Ahmed, Ahmed Adaweia; Tunisian actress and singer Louisa Tunisia; vintage music from Ana Caram, Joãozinho da Goméia; vintage Dino Saluzzi; Prince Nico Mbarga  & Shora Mbema; much mo...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: from Cabo Verde: Antonio Sanches; Tchiss Lopes; Bana; post-bop from Larry Young; Jaki Byard; new archival release of Infinite Sound; from Mali Ami Koïta; vocal work from Cory Smythe; Tembang Sunda from Likungan Seni Malati Ida; Gamelan "Gong Kebyar" from Bali; Sundanese pop from Detty Kurnia; Ahmed Hamza and Ali Riahi (from Tunisia); Jason Stein, Raleigh Dailey & Tim Daisy; new music from Aly Eissa et al.;  m...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music form Angelika Niescier; Floros Floridis x 2; Roma song from Esma, Divna Lazarova; Greek song from Stavros Kabanis, Petroloukas Chalkas; Romanian flute music from Rapsozii Gorjului; Joseph Daley w. Earth Tones; Bill Dixon w. 17 musicians; vintage light music from Ustad Chhotey Ghulam Ali Khan; new music from Md After Hussain & Pas; Diego 'el Cigala'; Persian pop (Googoosh); Baul musical Kurdish music...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: South African jazz from Joe Malinga; The Jazz Doctors (Bang, Lowe, Charles, Garrett); Cameroonian singer, actress, seamstress, and poet Liza Nfwa; from Ethiopia: Aselfech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret; The Abyssinia Band;  Les Amazons de Guinée; Don Cherry; from Greece:  Nikos Karakostas; Poly Panou; Algerian cha'abi from Akli Yahyatene; This is Our Language Quartet (Amado, McPhee, Kessler, Corsano); Dorothy Ashby...

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Tunisian vocalist Ghalia Benali (w. Romina Lischka & Vincent Noiret); Kenyan legend Mbaraka Mwinshehe; from Haiti: Emeline Michel, Beethova Obas; vintage rumba from Les Pionniers De La Musique Congolaise De Leopoldville à Kinshasa & Lucie Eyenga; Joe Morris; Roy Campbell; Prince Lasha; Barney Wilen in Morocco; from Senegal: Orchestre Baobab; Star No. One; Star Feminine Band; from Mali: Orchestre National ...