Conference of the Birds

Conference of the Birds, 11-24-09

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:26:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 11-17-09

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:37:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 11-10-09

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:28:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 11-3-09

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 10-27-09

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:00 +0000

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..

Conference of the Birds, 10-20-09

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:39:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 10-13-09

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:42:00 +0000

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...

Conference of the Birds, 10-6-09

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:43:00 +0000

Stefan Posberg's Odessa 5 plays Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D."; poetry from Will Alexander & Nathaniel Mackey; l'Orchestra de Femmes de Tetuan; flamenco from Remedios Amaya & Tomasa la Macanita; the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; Asmahan w/ Farid el Atrache's orchestra; Rasha (from Sudan); much more...

Conference of the Birds, 9-29-09

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Ecstatic music from Iraq; Enrique Morente salutes Pablo Picasso; Iva Bittova; Ivo Papasov w/ the Black Sea Orchestra; Gal Costa ca. 1969; Rembetika from Markos Vamvakaris and others; William Parker live w/ large ensemble; ecstatic music from Balutchistan; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 9-15-09

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Archie Shepp plays/recites "Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm;" The New York Art Quartet's 35th reunion (ca.2000) w/ Amiri Baraka; Egyptian vocalist Mayada el Henawai; three from Zimbabwe; Susana Baca's "Vestida la Vida;" Kurdish sung poetry from Khorrasan (Iran); Juan Carmona interpets Moroccan Gnawa music in a flamenco idiom; Tanjidor music from Java; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 9-08-09

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Cante Jondo music from Cameron (w/ Paco de Lucia) and Lole y Manuel; Algerian Kabyle singer Akli Yahyaten; Salim Halali in Tunisia; Astor Piazzola live in Lausanne (1989); Anthony Braxton's Willisau Quartet (1991); two from Papa Wemba; music from the Bibayak of Gabon; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 8-25-09

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Rara and Bizango music from Haiti; sufi music from Turkey; Marilyn Crispell w/ Gerry Hemmingway, Hank Roberts, and Mark Feldman; Trio A Cordes de Paris plays Felix Ibarrondo; Bebo y Cigala; 70s funk from Nigeria; Ensemble Moderne plays Mauricio Kagel; the Puerto Rico All Stars; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 8-18-09

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Hsaing Waing Orchestra from Burma (Myanmar); Kenneth Rexroth's "Mother Goose" set to music by Steve Lacy; Sudanese composer/vocalist Mohammed Wardi; Peter Brötzman w/ Hamid Drake and Mahmoud Ghania, a Kassidat from the master of Moroccan sing poetry El Hadj L'Houcine Toulali, two dedications to the late drummer Steve McCall; the Garifuna Women's Project (from Belize); Baul music/poetry from Bengal; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 8-11-09

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:04:00 +0000

William Parker's "In Order to Survive;" Houria Aïchi performs sacred music from Algeria; fado music from Carlos and Lucilia do Carmo; cross-cultural music from Lebannon by Ghazi Abdel-Baki; Sory Babma relates a tale of cultural clashing from the region of Mopti (in Mali); B. F. Shelton relates a different sort of tale; recent music from Ornette Coleman; the COnvergence Quartet live in Oxford; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 8-04-09

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:27:00 +0000

Senegalese music from Omar Pene and Orchestra Baobab as well as Senegalese salsa from Africando; Diaba Koîta and Mah Damba from Mali; Dan Clucas salutes Astor Piazzolla; Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner collaborate; Tanzania's Mlimani Park Orchestra; music from Cesaria Evora, Amandio Cabral (Cape Verde), Andrew Hill (USA), Alaide Costa (Brazil) and much more...

Conference of the Birds, 7-28-09

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Early (proto-) Raï music from Ahmed Wahbi (Algeria) and Sïf Mohammed (Morocco); modern Raï singer Cheb Nasro plays critically on the tradition of "La Souffrance"; Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris; Billy Bang reflecting on Vietnam; Les Amazon & Les Rossignol de Guinée; new music from North Sumatra; El Lebrijano w/ Sainkho Namtchylak and a group of young Bulgarian vocalists; Tunisian vocalists modernize the Judeo-Arabic canon for/in the Maghreb; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 7-21-09

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Recent music from the Garifuna Women's Project (from Belize), Iragi-American composer and multi-instrumentalist Amir el Saffar, Thione Seck from Senegal (traveling to India and Egypt), Djelimady Tounkara (from Mali's Rail band) Toumani Diabate's Symetric Orchestra, and dipping into archives for music from Eddie Gale, Rip Rig & Panic, Don Cherry, Alfredo Rodriguez, and much more.

Conference of the Birds, 7-14-09

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Music from I. Wayan Sadra, avant-garde composer from Sunda; inventive Jaipongan pop from Java; Pansori (solo opera from Korea); Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble salutes novelist Octavia Butler; seldom heard Qawwali from Pakistan; Steve Coleman's Five Elements weaving 'Koreo-Brazilian' symoblics; music from Equal Interest (Myra Melford, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins); recent recordings from Hadjia Kouyaté and Nahawa Doumbia; much more...

Conference of the Birds, 7-7-09

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Texts by Franz Fanon and Aimé Césaire set to music; Sun Ra in Egypt; Youssou N'Dour in Egypt; Les Amazones de Guineé; Craig Harris in Istanbul; Pierre Akendengue salutes African freedom fighters; new Algerian cha'abi music from Abdel Hadi Halo & classic cha'abi from Dahmane el Harrache...much more.

Conference of the Birds, 6-30-09

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:44:00 +0000

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