The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled entertainer who has explored the world and also gained a reputable Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His popular music mixtures local area and worldwide influences.
His standout addition to Brownswood Audios’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is has actually been actually observed up by a complete center cd called World Popular music. Along with 15 authentic keep tracks of, it shows his complex effects.
Emancipate The Story
After gaining the Specification Bank Youthful Artist Award in 2011 along with his sophomore album Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer constructed a sound base along with 2015’s comprehensive Globe Songs and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and manufacturer– who also composed as well as made up the authentic for the 2023 movie Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to better specify his artistic velocity, exploring heritage while pushing forward the present-day landscape of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER
The outcome is a profoundly religious job that reaches the breadth of the individual expertise, along with lyrics revealing a selection of ideas and ideas. If any sort of one monitor sounds over all, it’s the meditative Vibration of Honest truth, a request for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing and also a look for perfection.
Throughout 14 keep tracks of that shift in staffs, Dyer works together with a who’s that of South African skill consisting of bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Buddy Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are amongst the lost influences whose tempos inform his personal, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei deliver more present-day referrals.
Globe Music
Having actually succeeded the Criterion Bank Youthful Musician award for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, World Popular music, is actually dense and split. It blends seasoned superstars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with fresh ability like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also structures from around the world mingle. Taking its own title coming from a poem through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the report’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is actually a testament to “music along with no perimeters”.
A respected entertainer, Dyer has opened up for jazz music singer Melanie Scholtz, and also belongs to groove ensemble Heart Casing Task. He has actually also travelled the UK along with his quintet, as well as in 2016 joined South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching cd Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a regular port at London’s Orbit Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, author and also manufacturer, his approach to jazz integrates aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also classic music. He researched in New york city with United States pianist Jason Moran and also has actually discharged 3 cds – consisting of the critically reputable Emancipate The Tale, Oscillations, as well as a triad offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for best jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a set of real-time shows in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will be followed by his second center album Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new file, a double cd labelled Radio Sechaba, delivers an informal viewpoint in to South Africa’s multi-dimensional people as well as a chance for worldwide connection by means of music. The definition behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – country – is actually demonstrated throughout the cd as it sharpens into the similar concepts of uniformity and positive outlook.
The cd was actually tape-recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the household’s personal Dyertribe workshop with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a lovely recording along with a prosperous sound and also crystal clear acoustics, similar to old-fashioned SA jazz music audios. The album additionally shows Bokani’s ability to incorporate modern impacts like the neo-soul setting with his timeless training, along with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway seeming as crucial influences as typical SA musicians like Oliver Mtukudzi and Dab Metheny.
A strong sense of location permeates the file with the opening keep track of Ke Nako (‘ permit’s construct the country, it is actually time’) sung in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was actually born and also raised. The song is a phone call to action and includes visitor singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and also the Citizens.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those that have actually passed away, a lovely duet along with Yonela Mnana’s angelic shipping and also typical tranquilities. The document finishes along with a funeral piece phoned Medu which is composed through Bokani as well as devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that means “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a means that celebrates the continent’s humanity. The words becomes part of the official 2010 Globe Cup mantra and has likewise been taken on as the style of this year’s African Union Peak.
Dyer has collaborated with South African theatre director Mkhululi Mabija on his production My Daughter/ Kid, created saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut album Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Sessions, a performance set commemorating South Africa’s very most noticeable jazz music composers. He has actually additionally taped with the Bokani Dyer Triad and seemed like a visitor in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Moreover, he has conducted substantially internationally, consisting of at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was actually additionally a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and devoted 3 weeks in New York being actually trained through jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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