The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled performer who has travelled the world and succeeded a reputable Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His songs mixtures regional as well as worldwide influences.
His standout contribution to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music compilation Indaba Is has actually been actually adhered to up through a total studio cd named Planet Popular music. Along with 15 initial monitors, it shows his complex impacts.
Emancipate The Story
After succeeding the Specification Financial institution Young Performer Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer built a sound structure with 2015’s varied World Songs and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his launching for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South Black pianist, composer and also producer– who likewise wrote as well as made up the authentic for the 2023 movie Catching Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to better determine his creative path, checking out heritage while pushing onward the modern garden of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER
The result is a greatly religious job that reaches the width of the human experience, with verses conveying a series of ideas as well as suggestions. If any sort of one track reverberates over all, it is actually the introspective Resonance of Honest truth, a petition for self-liberation from people-pleasing and also a hunt for transcendence.
Across 14 keep tracks of that change in personnel, Dyer collaborates along with a who’s who of South African skill consisting of bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Friend Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and also Carl Thomas are actually among the past effects whose rhythmuses educate his own, while Moses Sumney and also Jordan Rakei use additional modern referrals.
Planet Popular music
Having succeeded the Requirement Banking company Young Artist honor for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Globe Music, is dense and also layered. It incorporates skilled superstars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new ability like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin and Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and textures from around the planet blend. Taking its own headline from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the document’s CD sleeve, the album is a testament to “songs without any borderlines”.
A respected artist, Dyer has opened for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, and belongs to canal outfit Spirit Real estate Project. He has also toured the UK along with his quintet, and also in 2016 joined South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer likewise curates a normal slot at London’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as developer, his method to jazz music integrates components of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also classical songs. He analyzed in New york city along with US pianist Jason Moran and has released 3 albums – consisting of the vitally acclaimed Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and also a trio offering, Neo Indigenous, which gained the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz album. In 2018, Dyer introduced a set of online concerts in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be adhered to through his second studio cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new document, a double album labelled Radio Sechaba, offers an intimate viewpoint right into South Africa’s varied folks and also an opportunity for worldwide relationship with popular music. The meaning behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is actually reflected throughout the cd as it refines in to the associated motifs of uniformity and positive outlook.
The album was actually tape-recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the family members’s own Dyertribe center with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a wonderful audio along with a prosperous sound and also clear acoustics, remindful of old-fashioned SA jazz music audios. The album additionally illustrates Bokani’s potential to combine modern effects like the neo-soul scene along with his classical childhood, along with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway showing up as crucial impacts as standard SA artists such as Oliver Mtukudzi and Pat Metheny.
A powerful local color permeates the record along with the position track Ke Nako (‘ let’s develop the nation, it’s time’) sung in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed and also raised. The track is actually a contact us to activity as well as features guest vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Locals.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those who have passed away, a gorgeous duet along with Yonela Mnana’s ethereal delivery and conventional compatibilities. The document ends along with a funeral part called Medu which is written through Bokani and dedicated to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that means “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is actually a require Africa to take the limelight in a means that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The words becomes part of the formal 2010 World Cup slogan and also has also been embraced as the motif of this particular year’s Black Union Summit.
Dyer has collaborated with South African theatre director Mkhululi Mabija on his production My Child/ Son, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure, a show series celebrating South Africa’s most noticeable jazz music composers. He has actually likewise captured with the Bokani Dyer Trio and seemed as a guest in the quintet of fabulous trumpeter Feya Faku.
In addition, he has conducted extensively globally, consisting of at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was also a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and invested 3 weeks in New york city being actually coached through jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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