ረብሻ (Rebsha) is the Ethio-ambient duo created by Feven Kidane and Nebyu Yohannes. Premiering at Active/Passive Vol. 6, Kidane and Yohannes fuse their background in ambient and Black American music with their East African heritage, generating a sonic landscape stretching from sub-Saharan Africa to the Pacific Northwest. With Kidane on bass and synth and Yohannes on guitar, the pair blend acoustic and electronic textures to score the ancestral sentiments of “tizita” and the duo’s namesake, Rebsha.
reb·sha:
noun
noise, riot, disturbance.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
We acknowledge the generous support of our partners and funders:
