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April 20, 2023 2:10 AM

Cellist Abel Selaocoe performs thrilling ‘Ka Bohaleng’ on cello and vocals! (SLYT)
posted by baueri (9 comments total)

In this other (non-solo) performance of the piece, Selaocoe provides some more context.
posted by progosk at 3:14 AM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

Bluesy bass plucking, vocal percussion, Western classical purity, throat singing, and more in that 3.5 minute clip. Wow.
posted by kozad at 6:13 AM on April 20, 2023 [2 favorites]

Gosh wow oh boy oh boy. He's expert in more kinds of music than I can even name.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 6:46 AM on April 20, 2023 [2 favorites]

The Algorithm decided I would want to watch this video today and it sent me down a short rabbit hole with this amazing musician and performer. Some background about him as an artist. A performance with Yo-Yo Ma.
posted by cubby at 6:49 AM on April 20, 2023

Yes… WOW!!!
posted by njohnson23 at 9:09 AM on April 20, 2023

Oh hell yes. This is good.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 10:10 AM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

We saw him with the Seattle Symphony last Saturday performing an original composition and both it and he were amazing. It was a double bill with Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, and the latter totally suffered by comparison. BO-RING.
posted by Slothrup at 4:33 PM on April 20, 2023 [2 favorites]

I have never heard anything like this. Amazing.
posted by bokinney at 10:42 PM on April 21, 2023

Amazing indeed. Thank you for this. I'm breathless.
posted by jokeefe at 1:49 PM on April 22, 2023