Here’s another joyously unclassifiable recording from cellist, composer and singer Abel Selaocoe, after 2022’s Hae Ke Kae (Where is Home). If anything, this time it feels as though Selaocoe has less to prove – the “classical” elements of his programme are mixed in with southern African music more indivisibly than ever.

He begins with a free-ranging version of the hymn Tsohle Tsohle, which grows from a whisper to a buoyant mass of sound, Selaocoe’s velvet voice freewheeling above the harmonies of his string-playing colleagues from the Manchester Collective. Marin Marais’s 1701 piece Les Voix Humaines brings a moment of solo introspection, Selaocoe singing as he plays. He’s front and centre in a richly woven ensemble harmonisation of the Sarabande from Bach’s Suite No 6 in D and in two movements of Giovanni Sollima’s LB Files, which the composer describes as a soundtrack to an imaginary mini-movie about the 18th-century cellist Luigi Boccherini. Elsewhere, there’s more of a jazz sensibility at work, with electric bass and percussion often leading in music by Selaocoe himself – infectious dances full of tricksy rhythms, his vocals a virtuoso blend of throat singing, overtones and clicks. It’s easy to enjoy, and offers more every time.

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