Where is Home / Hae Ke Kae - Vinyl Edition - Warner Classics: 9029622428 - Vinyl Record

Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 23rd Sep 2022
Catalogue No: 9029622428
Label: Warner Classics

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Top of the World

November 2022
BBC Music Magazine

November 2022

Chamber Choice
Presto Editor's Choice

September 2022
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2022
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2023

Winner - Newcomer
Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Winner - Classical Without Borders

Selaocoe: Ibuyile I'Africa / Africa is Back

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Dipolelo / Recite

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Zawose (for Hukwe Zawose)

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Platti: Cello Sonata No. 7 in D major, I. 84

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Qhawe / Hero

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Hlokomela / Take care

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Lerato / Love

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Seipone / Mirror

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009: Sarabande

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Invocation

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Ka Bohaleng / On the Sharp Side

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV1011: Sarabande

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

Selaocoe: Ancestral Affirmations

Abel Selaocoe (cello)

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"Here’s a star in the making, a brilliant instrumentalist, an inventive singer and an assured performer who can draw the audience into the palm of his hand"

Tim Cumming, The Arts Desk, January 2022

“…can’t think of one who radiates so much heart and joy as Abel Selaocoe... winningly combines his cello with throat singing, improvising, exhorting the audience to shout or clap, and treating his body as a percussion instrument."

Geoff Brown, The Times, August 2021

• South African cellist Abel Selacoe combines virtuosic performance with improvisation, singing, and body percussion

• He has a special interest in curating concert programs that link non-Western and Western music and move seamlessly across genres and styles

• This debut album weaves threads between baroque music (J.S. Bach, Giovanni Platti, Joseph Dall’abaco), his own compositions and South African hymns

• Tour dates planned in the US (March 2022), UK and Europe (Autumn 2022)

Reviews

November 2022

Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary voice, a soothing baritone that can plunge into unfathomable bass via Xhosa-style throat singing.

December 2022

Contrasts abound, held together by Selaocoe’s musical vision, channelled through his own interpretations and supported by a brilliant set of musicians who accompany him on strings, voices and percussion.

September 2022

Bach and Platti are seamlessly interwoven with music from Selaocoe's native South Africa to form a rich and unique tapestry on this arresting, unmissable debut album, which sees him exploiting virtually every sonic possibility his instrument can offer (try Zawose, where Selaocoe imitates the Tanzanian zeze) as well as serving powerful expressive vocals and percussion along the way. The exuberant Qhawe ('Hero') and the closing Ancestral Affirmations stand out, but everything here exudes charisma and conviction.

22nd September 2022

Nobody else could have made this recording...One moment Selaocoe is growling and beatboxing his way through a playful number hymning his young nephew; the next he is singing a gentle countermelody to a movement from a Bach cello suite, like his mother used to do when he practised at home.

November 2022

What’s remarkable about this album is not just the strength and ferocity of the playing and the power of the material, but the singleness of vision that brings these contrasting ingredients into a thrilling whole.

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