V/A – Abatwa (The Pygmy) LP

Label: Glitterbeat ‎– GBLP049
Series: Hidden Musics – 4
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: 17 Aug 2017
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: African

In a land where men lead each other hand-in-hand, but homophobia runs rampant, we drove off the main road and miles up the ridge to one of the pockets hardest hit by the genocide— a place where the residents stopped waving back. An area so very isolated, it was as if the genocide had never ended. Topping that, we were traveling this dirt trail with two Tutsis in an area where they had recently been “hunting Rwandans,” and a sense of discomfort was tangible, as if an invisible line had been crossed and we’d entered ibiwa (“problems”).