Conference of the Birds

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Zanzibar's Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club reprises Rimsky Korsakov; Belle Lumière from Grande Comore; Marilyn Crispell & quintet live in Québec; Sonny & Linda Sharrock (ca. 1969); Toto Bissainthe & Boukman Eksperyans (both from Haiti); cellist Erik Friedlander w/ quartet; Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille performs Messiaen; Sarangi master Ram Narayan; South Indian Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sayeeram; Ishmael Reed's "Dualism (2)" (from Conjure); much more...

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Romani legend Saban Bajramovic; Prince Lasha w/ Herbie Hancock (ca. 1965); John Zorn's Masada Quintet feat. Joe Lovano; classic music from Franco and M'Bilia Bel w/ Tabu Ley; Guinea's Horoya Band; Syrian singer Abdel Maged Abdulla; new music from Cuba's Los Van Van; Algerian cha'abi master Hachemi Guerouabi; Staff Benda Bilili (quadriplegic musicians from Congo); much more...

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Oum Kalthsoum's "Alf Leila"; Odissi dance music from Orissa; poet Andy Clausen; Italian pop singer Loredana Berté addresses Che Guevara; Max Roach w/ Abby Lincoln; Sìmentera (from Cape Verde); two pieces of Algerian Kabylie music; from Cuba: Mercedita Valdez & Orquestra Revé; Spainish group Amalgama w/ the Karnataka College of Percussion; much more...

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Rebby Sharp; new Javanese Gamelan from Aloysius Suwardi; Francis Wong reprises a classical Chinese piece; Billy Harper's "Somalia"; Somali hip-hop artist K'naan; Adanèh Tèka reprises Bob Marley; Glenn Spearman from "Blues for Falasha"; David S. Ware live in Italy; Tunisian music from Hedi Habbouba; Pata Negra reprises Lorca; much more...

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Cancion from Argentines Ataulpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa (R.I.P.); Pino Minafra sets Pablo Neruda's "Canto General" to music; new music from guitarist Mary Halvorson; Sudanese pop legend Mohammed Wardi; palm wine music from Ghana's Kwabena Nyana; Thione Seck w/ Counba Gawlo and Africando; vintage music from Salif Keita; much more..

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Dawn Upshaw sings Osvaldo Gurijov; Rabih Abou-Khalil w/ Ricardo Ribiero; flamenco from El Lebrijano and Manzanita; Leroy Jenkins salutes Albert Ayler; Ayler-inspired music from Andrea Parkins and Henry Threadgill; fado from Mariza; Fawzi Al-Aiedy's l'Oriental Jazz; much more...

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Music for gymnasts by Harry Partch; Moondog (a.k.a Louis Thomas Hardin); Ongo orchestra from the Central African Republic; Angolan legend Bonga performs "Sodade"; music from Cecil Taylor; two pieces from Madagascar; Irazu (feat. Arturo Sandoval); calypso from Belize; much more...