Weekly podcast of music from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle-East, and Europe with an emphasis on cross-cultural exploration and experimentation. Hosted by Stephen Cope.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 36 days 17 hours 34 minutes
episode 295: Conference of the Birds, 8-15-23
Blast from the (recent) past... THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Guerouabi (Algerian cha'abi. hawzi); Roma music from, Bajramio Selime; Romano Dives; Trio Zazaji, and others; long lost and recently found John Coltrane w. Eric Dolphy; Peter Brötzman (RIP); Othe...
episode 294: Conference of the Birds, 3-22-24
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...
episode 293: Conference of the Birds, 3-15-23
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...
episode 292: Conference of the Birds, 3-8-24
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 Orq...
episode 291: Conference of the Birds, 3-1-24
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...
episode 290: Conference of the Birds, 2-2-24
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 Kurni...
episode 289: Conference of the Birds, 1-26-24
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 Ho...
episode 288: Conference of the Birds, 1-12-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Ahmed Abdul-Malik; new music from NIU RAZA; Congolese rumba from Youlou Mabiala; Gulf song from Adade al Johar; Egyptian song from Waed Bouhassoun; going =abck to the luminaries: Dizzy Gillespie (w/ Lilian Terry); Thelonious Monk;...
episode 287: Conference of the Birds, 10-5-24
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; O...
episode 286: Conference of the Birds, 12-29-23
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 ...