The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled artist that has actually toured the planet as well as gained a reputable Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His songs mixes local area and also international effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Audios’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is actually has been actually observed up by a full center cd named Planet Popular music. With 15 authentic monitors, it demonstrates his multifaceted effects.
Emancipate The Story
After gaining the Specification Banking company Young Artist Award in 2011 along with his sophomore album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer constructed a sound base with 2015’s considerable Planet Music and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author and also producer– who likewise composed and made up the initial for the 2023 movie Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– sought to even more define his imaginative trail, checking out practice while pressing forward the modern yard of South Africa jazz. BOKANDIYER
The result is a profoundly religious job that reaches the width of the human knowledge, with lyrics expressing a selection of thoughts and also ideas. If any kind of one path sounds above all, it is actually the reflective Vibration of Reality, a petition for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing as well as a seek transcendence.
Around 14 tracks that move in personnel, Dyer works together with a that’s who of South African talent including bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends as well as Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are actually amongst the lost influences whose cadences educate his personal, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei offer more present-day recommendations.
World Music
Having succeeded the Standard Financial institution Youthful Artist award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, World Popular music, is dense and also layered. It integrates skilled superstars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new skill like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as structures from around the planet mix. Taking its own headline from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that lines the report’s compact disc sleeve, the album is actually a testament to “popular music without perimeters”.
A prolific artist, Dyer has actually opened for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, and also is actually component of canal outfit Heart Real estate Task. He has actually additionally explored the UK with his quintet, and in 2016 participated in South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer also curates a frequent slot at Greater london’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as manufacturer, his method to jazz music includes aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also classic popular music. He researched in The big apple along with US pianist Jason Moran as well as has actually launched 3 cds – featuring the extremely reputable Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, as well as a trio offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for finest jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a set of real-time concerts in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will be adhered to through his second center album Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new file, a dual cd labelled Radio Sechaba, supplies an intimate viewpoint into South Africa’s multi-dimensional folks and also a chance for international hookup with music. The significance responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is actually demonstrated throughout the album as it polishes in to the similar styles of unity as well as optimism.
The cd was documented in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the household’s personal Dyertribe center along with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a beautiful recording with an affluent noise and crystal clear acoustics, evocative old-fashioned SA jazz recordings. The album also illustrates Bokani’s potential to include contemporary influences like the neo-soul setting with his timeless childhood, along with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway seeming as crucial influences as typical SA artists including Oliver Mtukudzi and also Dab Metheny.
A sturdy local color permeates the record along with the position keep track of Ke Nako (‘ let’s construct the country, it is actually opportunity’) performed in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was born as well as raised. The tune is a contact us to action and features guest vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi and also the Citizens.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those who have passed away, an attractive duet along with Yonela Mnana’s angelic shipping as well as traditional tranquilities. The document finishes with a funeral piece called Medu which is created by Bokani and also devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that indicates “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a means that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The expression is actually part of the main 2010 Globe Mug mantra and has also been actually taken on as the style of the year’s Black Union Summit.
Dyer has teamed up with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Child/ Son, produced saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut album Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions, a gig collection celebrating South Africa’s very most famous jazz music composers. He has actually additionally tape-recorded along with the Bokani Dyer Trio as well as looked like a guest in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
In addition, he has conducted widely around the globe, including at the Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen, Germany. He was likewise a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also devoted 3 full weeks in New York being coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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