The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled entertainer that has visited the planet and also succeeded a reputable Pro Helvetia performer residency in Switzerland. His music mixtures regional and global effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is actually has actually been actually complied with up through a complete studio album called Globe Music. With 15 authentic keep tracks of, it reflects his complex effects.
Emancipate The Story
After gaining the Specification Bank Youthful Performer Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer built a strong base along with 2015’s considerable Planet Music and 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author and also manufacturer– that also composed and also composed the initial for the 2023 film Catching Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to even more describe his creative velocity, checking out custom while precipitating the modern garden of South Africa jazz music. More about the author
The result is a deeply metaphysical task that covers the width of the human expertise, along with lyrics conveying a stable of thought and feelings and suggestions. If any one track reverberates most of all, it is actually the meditative Resonance of Honest truth, a prayer for self-liberation from people-pleasing and a seek transcendence.
Across 14 tracks that change in personnel, Dyer teams up along with a who’s who of South African skill including bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are amongst the lost impacts whose cadences update his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei use even more contemporary referrals.
World Popular music
Having actually succeeded the Specification Bank Young Artist award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Planet Songs, is actually thick and split. It blends veteran superstars like bassist Shane Cooper and drummer Marlon Witbooi, with fresh ability like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and appearances from around the entire world intermingle. Taking its headline from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the file’s CD sleeve, the album is a testament to “songs without perimeters”.
A respected artist, Dyer has opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, and also is actually part of canal clothing Soul Housing Project. He has actually additionally visited the UK with his quintet, and also in 2016 signed up with South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her debut album Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a regular slot at Greater london’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as developer, his strategy to jazz music integrates aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and classic popular music. He analyzed in New York with US pianist Jason Moran and also has actually discharged three cds – consisting of the critically reputable Emancipate The Tale, Oscillations, and also a trio offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for greatest jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a collection of live performances in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will be complied with through his 2nd studio album Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new file, a dual album entitled Broadcast Sechaba, delivers an informal sight into South Africa’s varied folks as well as an option for worldwide relationship with music. The meaning responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is shown throughout the cd as it develops right into the related styles of oneness and positive outlook.
The cd was actually recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the family members’s very own Dyertribe studio with designer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a beautiful recording along with a wealthy sound as well as crystal clear acoustics, remindful of old-fashioned SA jazz music recordings. The album likewise shows Bokani’s ability to integrate modern impacts like the neo-soul scene with his timeless upbringing, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway showing up as significant impacts as traditional SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Dab Metheny.
A tough local color penetrates the record with the position track Ke Nako (‘ let’s develop the nation, it’s time’) performed in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was birthed as well as brought up. The song is a phone call to action and also includes attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have actually passed away, a gorgeous duet with Yonela Mnana’s ethereal shipment as well as standard harmonies. The file finishes along with a funeral part called Medu which is created by Bokani as well as committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that indicates “it is actually opportunity,” Ke Nako is actually a telephone call for Africa to take the limelight in a manner that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The words is component of the main 2010 World Mug slogan as well as has also been actually embraced as the concept of this particular year’s African Union Peak.
Dyer has actually worked together with South African theater supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his production My Child/ Child, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure, a concert collection commemorating South Africa’s very most noticeable jazz music composers. He has actually likewise videotaped with the Bokani Dyer Triad and seemed like a visitor in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
In addition, he has actually conducted substantially worldwide, including at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was also a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and spent 3 weeks in New York being actually trained by jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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