Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae)
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SELAOCOE / BACH / PLATTI
Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae)
Abel Selaocoe (cello) with Yo-Yo Ma, Colin Alexander, Simran Singh, Max Baillie, Rakhvinder Singh, Ruth Gibson & others
[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 September 2022
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe makes his debut on Warner Classics with Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae). Its dual title, in English and Sesotho, reflects the album's diverse program which draws from vibrant European and African influences: pieces inspired by South African and Tanzanian musical tradition share a space with works by J.S. Bach and Giovanni Benedetto Platti, some of which are renewed with instrumental and lyrical improvisations. The title of the album holds multifaceted significance for the Manchester-based musician: "Home is the place that empowers you; it's not only a geographical place but in people as well, where you can live a life of empowerment and not of oppression. I've learned to find my different homes through the cello." Abel Selaocoe represents Africa on the move.
"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
BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER
BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER
"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." BBC Music Magazine November 2022 Chamber Choice
"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." The Guardian
Tracks:
Selaocoe: Ibuyile I'Africa / Africa is Back
Selaocoe: Dipolelo / Recite
Selaocoe: Zawose (for Hukwe Zawose)
Platti: Cello Sonata No. 7 in D major, I. 84
Selaocoe: Qhawe / Hero
Selaocoe: Hlokomela / Take care
Selaocoe: Lerato / Love
Selaocoe: Seipone / Mirror
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009: Sarabande
Selaocoe: Invocation
Selaocoe: Ka Bohaleng / On the Sharp Side
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV1011: Sarabande
Selaocoe: Ancestral Affirmations
