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Tweet We Are Standard have actually been around since 2006, when they released their debut album, "3000 V 40000 W" to great success in Spain and Europe. I will admit to not having heard that record (it's not on Spotify) but I can vouch for the band's work from then on. For their next album, self-titled and released in 2008, the five-piece from Vizcaya (Basque Country, Spain) sought out Gang of Four guitarist [...]
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We've been beating a path to Dead Oceans door of late so in an effort to find out if we'd missed anything else from their stable we happened upon this track from Rwandan act the Good Ones. And what a story they have to tell having been part of the ravages that tore their country apart in the mid 902s. Listening to 'Sara' you can almost hear their pain but also the joy that playing together affords. The story of their album is also quite remarkable as 'Kigali Y' Izahabu' was recorded over a single night on a [...]
Ruth and I were back on Fresh Air Radio last night, but due to all sorts of massively annoying database problems with the site, I couldn't put up one of those live playlist updatey things like I usually do, which was really kind of frustrating. After spending last term more or less missing one another every single show I must confess I am looking forward to getting things right in 2011 and the chance to spend an hour and a half every week bickering with the old trout about music. So given you had [...]
+אנשים שצריכים לבדוק מייל: bugoe, שרון וטל זכו בעותק מהאלבום של שילה פרבר שרה אלתרמן, ובמייל שלהם מחכה הודעה עם הפרטים. תודה לאל על קול הקמפוס. בעידן בו כל ערוצי התקשורת והתרבות בארץ מוותרים בהדרגה - מי לאט ומי מהר - על כל ערך של איכות לטובת כמות, פופולריות, פופוליזם, המכנה המשותף הנמוך וכל ה(מה [...],
The trio. Folk musicians from Rwanda recorded Kigali in one afternoon. Continuing the tradition of Harry Smith's local folk music anthologies, this is salvage culture; the instinct to preserve traditional music before it disappeared. Given the circumstances which name, name and name survived, there's a good chance we would never have been able to hear this incredible music. The simple grace of the vocals holds a power over the listener, harmonies weaving in and out. The mix is simple, recording on the porch. On" Umahanano", you can hear a dog's distant barking. One take per song. The lyrics sheet might [...]
Filed under: Around the World Is Bamako the new Brooklyn? Garifuna the new grunge? Front-porch sessions in Rwanda the new hipster hangout? You might think so to scan the recent and upcoming release schedules of some of the US's leading independent record labels. The places that have given us such phenoms as Nirvana , Tortoise and Califone in the past in are making rather bold moves into the world music market - a trend that looks [...]
In a country that has been devastated over the years, by genocide and poverty, the Good Ones remind us of the unflinching resilience of its people. The three players in the Good Ones, all Rwandan genocide survivors, display a striking resilience on Kigali Y' Izahabu. Armed with just two rickety acoustic guitars -- one with only four strings -- their stomping feet, and their voices, Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana, and Jeanvier Havugimana deliver 12 songs that resonate deeply despite their spare constructions. These songs were recorded on a porch in Kigali, Rwanda in the summer of 2009, and the [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Bad Books, Botany, the Concretes, the Driftwood Singers, the Good Ones, Tom Howie, Masonic, Motorifik, Nightlands, the Parting Gifts, Jesse Payne, Shigeto, the Tallest Man On Earth, Thunderball, Gary Wilson and Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Filed under: Around the World Ian Brennan was sitting outside a house in Kigali, Rwanda, one July night in 2009. Out of the shadows appeared two young men, holding something between them. As they approached, timidly, Brennan could make out what the thing was: a beat-up guitar. "It was like a scene from a movie," he says. And as in a movie, he just had a feeling about these two men. Not like a scene [...]
A lot of today's music is lodged so far into escapism, it's hard to tell what's real. Songs don't need to be about walruses or vikings to distract from what's really going on. Lyrics about sour relationships or even a flashy production job can be the same as watching the world through rose-colored glasses. In real life, you're missing a few strings. In real life, a couple of frets on your guitar are dead. In real life, dogs are bark while you're recording a song. For me, that's [...]
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Das Folk Trio The Good Ones nimmt uns mit auf einen musikalischen Rundgang durch Kigali, die Haupstadt von Ruanda. Auf einer Reise durch Ruanda macht der Produzent Ian Brennan, der zuletzt mit Kyp Malone's Rain Machine zusammengearbeitet hat, Bekanntschaft mit dem Folk Trio The Good Ones . Auf der Veranda eines Freundes spielen Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana and Jeanvier Havugimana an einem Abend eine Handvoll Songs ein, die im November auf Dead Oceans veröffentlicht werden. "Kigali Y' Izahabu" ist [...]
Welcome to this Friday's mp3 Mixtape everyone, our favorite way to keep the Roman numerical system alive while also bestowing a ton of new music upon you. Whether you're looking for this week's newest singles, reworked and redone versions of songs you know (courtesy of Cover Me ), or want to hear something new and out of the blue, it's all here, packaged together in one nice little offering. Use it as your weekend's soundtrack and/or a way to kill time until Kanye drops his next G.O.O.D. Friday gem; plus, because it's all free and legal to stream/download, [...]
Music video for "Sara" by the Good Ones from the group's 2010 release, Kigali Y' Izahabu .
De grandes tragedias surgen grandes iniciativas artísticas. Ese es un hecho innegable. The Good Ones son sobrevivientes del Genocidio de Ruanda. El productor Ian Brennan (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kyp Malone) se encontraba realizando un documental en dicho país y por acto del destino se encontró con estos personajes que cantan en Kinyarwanda, dialecto callejero de Kigali. Kigali Y' Izahabu fue grabado en el porche de la casa de un amigo de los músicos, quienes se presentaron a las sesiones con un par de guitarras de 4 y [...]
*Low Sea - Falling* The Good Ones - Sara The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars Anni Rossi - Crushing Limbs Yeasayer - Madder Red (Golden Filter Mix)
Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana and Jeanvier Havugimana, aka The Good Ones, are a Rwandan trio who manage to bang out more than adequate back porch music--on piecemeal guitars with mismatched strings no less--in the Kinyarwanda street dialect of their nation's capital, Kigali. Is it pretentious to kinda dig their sound just because they're speaking another language, like how that waitress at the coffee shop is so much hotter because she takes your order in a thick French accent? Or can you hear a kind of realness in their delivery that only subsisting on a 50-cents-per-day salary brings about? [...]
Lewis Pesacov's last remix is one of the best jams of the summer, and his follow up ain't half bad either. His remix of the Free Energy track "Bang Pop" isn't nearly as endearing or fun as his Local Natives remix, but not many tracks are. A real solid remix to wrap up the summer. [...]
Well gang, I'm happy to say that these days our Friday Mixtape is really firing on all cylinders. The recent addition of our new Covers section (brought to you by Cover Me) has lifted the mix to a previously unthinkable level of awesomeness, and our other sections are feeding off that new energy. Alright, I might be exaggerating just a bit (I'm not sure if our sections can actively step up their game on their own), but I'm sincere when I say this tape is top notch. For our new formula, we kept the [...]
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