Abel Selaocoe - Where is home (Hae Ke Kae) [CD]

Warner Classics

£13.86

Format: CD
ICPN: 0190296224331
Release Date: 23 Sep 2022
Genre: Classical

"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)

Tracklist:
Abel Selaocoe
1. Ibuyile I'Africa / Africa is back
2. Dipolelo / Recite
3. Zawose (for Hukwe Zawose)
Giovanni Platti: Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major, I. 84
4. I.Adagio
5. II. Allegro
6. III. Largho
7. IV. Presto
Abel Selaocoe
8. Hlokomela / Take care
9. Qhawe / Hero
10. Lerato / Love
11. Seipone / Mirror
J.-S. Bach
12. Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande
Abel Selaocoe
13. Invocation
14. Ka Bohaleng / On the Sharp Side
J.– S. Bach
15. Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande
Abel Selaocoe
16. Ancestral Affirmations
Artists:
Abel Selaocoe, cello (Track 2,4-7,11,15), cello & voice (1,3,8-10,12-14); voice & percussion (16)
Yo-Yo Ma, cello (1)
Colin Alexander, cello (1,3,10)

Simran Singh, violin (1,3,9,10,13,14)
Max Baillie, violin (1,3,10)
Rakhvinder Singh, violin (9,13,14)
Ruth Gibson, viola (9,13,14)

Fred Thomas, piano (1); high percussion (3,8,10,13-16); double-bass (4,6,7)
Alan Keary, electric bass (3,8,9,10,13,14)
Sidiki Dembele, calabash & djembe (3,8,10,13,14)
Mamadou Sarr, congas & talking drum (3,10,13,14)
Kadialy Kouyate, kora (4,6,7)
Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo (4-7)

Alice Zawadzki, voice (1,3,8,13,14)
Cherise Adams-Burnett, voice (1,3)
Thandanani Gumede, voice (1,3)
The Selaocoe Family, voices (16)

With the release of track #12 (Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major: IV. Sarabande), we have five singles out on DSPs leading up to release of the album, as well as two commercial videos. Excluding this fifth and final single, Abel’s tracks have received over 1M streams so far.

On top of the 2 already-published commercial videos, the EPK, and 8 track-by-track interview videos, we will publish a final commercial video on the release date: Ibuyile, featuring Yo-Yo Ma.