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The Good Ones - Rwanda Sings With Strings - 1CD
29/08/2025
GBCD 173
Artist:
The Good Ones
Label:
Glitterbeat
Sound Carrier:
1CD
Barcode:
4030433617328
“As welcoming as any porch-recorded music you’ve heard.” - Fader
“How can songs be so mournful and so uplifting at once?” - The Independent (UK)
The celebrated Rwandan folk duo returns with a resonant fifth album, Rwanda Sings with Strings. The record combines their signature earthy vocals and acoustic instrumentation (guitar and hand percussion) with atmospheric cello and violin arrangements, creating a soundscape that vividly brings to life their powerful stories of resilience, memory, and longing.
Recorded 100% live without overdubs in a hotel room by Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Parchman Prison Project), the album delivers an unusually intimate listening experience. Reflective, unfiltered and deeply human.
1. Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist 04:30
2. One Red Sunday, You Lied & Tried to Steal My Land 02:34
3. Kirisitiyana Runs Around 04:48
4. In the Hills of Nyarusange, They Talk Too Much 04:54
5. I Love You So Much, But You Refused to Marry Me (Your Beauty I Cannot Unsee) 03:54
6. Mediatrice, You Left This World Too Soon 03:48
7. You Were Given a Dowry, But Abandoned Me 03:39
8. The Valley of the Turkeys (The Things I’ve Seen) 05:50
9. Everyne, the Earnest One 03:26
10. The Older Girls Lead the Little Ones Astray 02:51
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