The Good Ones (live @Le Guess Who? 2023)

They formed the band as a healing process after the genocide and the original trio’s membership reunited Rwanda’s three tribes (with one member each from the Tutsi, Hutu, and Abatwa tribes). It was an active attempt to seek out “the good ones,” after having endured and witnessed unthinkable horrors.

SETLIST
00:00 The Farmer
03:48 Columbia River Flowers
08:47 Seraphinne, You Are the Prettiest Woman in the World
11:18 Young People Are the Future
16:58 Sara

Since they live without electricity and have had little access to devices to reproduce musical recordings, 'The Good Ones’ vocalizations are based on the singing traditions and dialect of their local immediate, agricultural district more than by outside and Western influences. Primary songwriter Adrien Kazigira interweaves intricate harmonies with co-singer, Janvier Havugimana, in a style frequently referred to as “worker songs from the streets.”
The latest album 'Rwanda...you see ghosts, I see sky' was produced by Grammy winner Ian Brennan.
Adrian Kazigira and Janvier Havugimana utilize one-of-a-kind instruments in their music, often incorporating their own farming tools as percussion. Adrien continues to subsist as a farmer on the land that he and his children were born on, where he hid for months and survived the genocide.

Editors: Melchior Huurdeman, Aad van Nieuwkerk, Sakti Khedoe
Camera & lighting: Marijn Zurburg, Ramon de Boer, Marjolein Hoitinga
Sound: Marc Broer, Philip ten Brink, Rens van Waterschoot
Producer: Jorinde Hiddema, Pippa Harris
Director/Editing: Reinier Bruijne

This video was recorded at Bibliotheek Neude Utrecht 2023 for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO

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