Sudanese Rebaba Project

Sudanese Rebaba Project Music from the south Sudan
Sudanese Rebaba Project is made up a former "Lost Boys of Sudan" who play the Rebaba which is a South Sudanese musical instrument similar to a banjo. The hypnotic strumming is interlaced with electric guitar, drums, and occasionally keyboard makes up the Rebaba with the core group being co-founder Michael Pac (rebaba, drum), James Malou (drum), David Bior (Rebaba), Jacob Laul (rebaba, singing), Phillip Hakim (Keyboard, Electric Guitar), and occasionally Andrew Evrre (electric guitar), and David Bird (electric guitar). The topics of the Rebaba music are universal — war & peace, love & women, family, emotions, grief, etc.
This is a group of Sudanese refugees living in Louisville KY who are building musical instruments they made and played when they were children in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. The purpose of the Sudanese Rebaba Project is to recall and sustain irreplaceable instrument building techniques along with the endangered music and songs of the war-displaced Sudanese community in Louisville, Kentucky.
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