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Abel Selaocoe, cellist and musical innovator, explores the meaning of home, drawing on diverse influences from across Southern Africa and the Baroque era.
It draws on elements of South African culture personal to Abel, ‘from spoken word and deep voices of Makoloane (boys of age from Lesotho and South Africa going through initiation school) to Tswana rhythmic dances with foot stomps.’
‘It takes inspiration from African string instruments such as the uhadi from Southern Africa, sekhankhula from Lesotho and zeze from Tanzania, going on to weave connecting threads between Baroque music and South African hymnal song that took this sound world through its colonial past.’
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