The Good Ones - Kigali Y Izahabu (CD, Vinyl LP)

The Good Ones is a trio of Rwandan genocide survivors who play joyous, acoustic love songs written in the ancient local Kinyarwanda street dialect of their nation's capital, Kigali.

Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana and Jeanvier Havugimana recorded the songs collected on ‘Kigali Y’ Izahabu’ over the course of one summer evening on the back porch of a friend's home.

The primary obstacle to recording the group was that the musicians showed up with only one guitar for two players, and that guitar was missing two strings. Hitimana ‘played bass’ on the 4-string and a beat-up acoustic was located for the second guitarist, the sullen, primary songwriter Kazigira, who interweaves intricate harmonies with cosinger Havugimana.

In a style often referred to as ‘worker songs from the streets’, these simple, direct and plaintive love songs speak more to the healing power of peace than a thousand academic treatises or preachy goodwill ambassadors ever could.

Tracklisting:

1. Sara
2. Belthilde
3. Umuntu Ninkundi
4. Amagorwa Y' Abagabo
5. Kacyiry
6. Gahind Umpora Iki
7. Bakame Ni' Ingwe
8. Umahanano
9. Iby' Iyisini Ubusa
10. Egidia
11. Eudia

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