“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL. You can also see one jumbo list of my past playlists (back to 9/2008 when WNUR started online playlists), for easier searching.
Extremely eclectic show today, starting with some of the most fundamentally eclectic music I know (and in the case of Laurie Anderson, something deep in my musical DNA.) I definitely surprised myself with a couple of things, but good times nonetheless.
To clarify one thing from the show, El Kinto are definitely from Uruguay.
Listen:
download complete program (132 MB, 2 hrs 25 min)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Brian Eno & David Byrne: “America is Waiting” – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Warner Bros)
Laurie Anderson: “Smoke Rings” – Home of the Brave (Warner Bros)
Stevie Wonder: “Big Brother” – Talking Book (Motown)
Vijay Iyer Trio: “Big Brother” – Conference of the Birds (ACT)
Duke Ellington: “Villesville is the Place, Man” – Blues in Orbit (Columbia)
Los Papacitos: “Jazzy” – Panama! 2 – Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk On The Isthmus 1967-1977 (Soundway)
Erykah Badu: “I Want You” – Worldwide Underground (Motown)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “Bold Souls” – Chicago Now: Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol 1 (Delmark)
Franco et l’OK Jazz: “Motema Ya Fa Fa” – Merveilles du Passe, Vol 3 (Frochot Music)
The Turtles: “Elenore” – The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands (White Whale)
El Kinto: “Yo volveré por ti” – Complete Collection (Lion)
Kecak Ganda Sari: “Forest Scene (excerpt)” – A Balinese Music Drama (Bridge)
Unspecified artists: “Katik Ngangg Ngirik” – Street Music of Java (Original Music)
Charlie Parr: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” – 1922 (Chairkickers Union Music / IODA)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “Old Mountain Dew” – Ballads, Banjo Tunes and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina (Smithsonian Folkways)
Niù Abdominaux Dangereux: “Ghosts/Baroque” – Ghosts (ITM)
Evan Lurie: “Tarantella” – Selling Water By the Side of the River (Polygram)
Astor Piazzolla: “Buenos Aires Hora Cero” – Tristeza de un doble A (MSI Music Distribution)
Bill Ware: “It Don’t Mean a Thing” – Sir Duke (Knitting Factory)
The Eternals: “It Is Later Than You Think” – Heavy International (Aesthetics)
Prince Far I: “Anambra Dub” – Dubwise (Frontline)
New Order: “Ceremony” – Substance 1987 (Factory)
Seu Jorge & Almaz: “Cristina” – Seu Jorge & Almaz (Now-Again)
Carolina Chocolate Drops: “Hit ‘Em Up Style” – 2009-09-30 The Kent Stage (Internet Music Archive)
MC Solaar: “Nouveau Western” – Prose Combat (Talkin’ Loud)
Celia Cruz: “Rumbanacoa” – Serie Inmortales – La Cumbanchera (Yoyo)
Bodega Band: “Murrayburn Goes Chicago / A Taste of Mr. Smoke” – Aerien Voyage (Melodisc)
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath: “Andromeda” – Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath (Fledg’ling)
Anthony Brown’s Asian-American Orchestra: “Pannonica” – Monk’s Moods (Water Baby)
Steve Lacy: “Let’s Cool One” – Evidence (Prestige New Jazz)
Jeb Bishop Trio: “Awomblyin’” – 2009 (Better Animal)
