“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

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.