The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled musician that has visited the globe as well as gained a prominent Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His popular music mixtures neighborhood as well as worldwide effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is actually has actually been actually adhered to up by a full studio cd named Planet Popular music. Along with 15 original tracks, it shows his multi-dimensional influences.
Emancipate The Story
After gaining the Criterion Financial institution Young Performer Honor in 2011 along with his student cd Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer developed a solid structure along with 2015’s considerable Planet Popular music as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and also producer– who likewise created and also composed the initial for the 2023 movie Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to additionally describe his creative velocity, checking out practice while pushing ahead the present-day landscape of South Africa jazz. BOKANI DYER
The result is actually a heavily metaphysical project that stretches over the breadth of the individual adventure, along with lyrics revealing a series of ideas and tips. If any sort of one path sounds most of all, it is actually the meditative Resonance of Truth, a petition for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing and also a seek perfection.
Throughout 14 monitors that change in staffs, Dyer collaborates with a who’s who of South African talent consisting of bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Friend Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are one of the lost influences whose cadences educate his very own, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei give additional present-day referrals.
Globe Music
Having actually gained the Specification Financial institution Youthful Performer honor for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Music, is actually dense and also split. It mixes professional celebrities like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new talent like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin and Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also structures coming from around the world blend. Taking its title from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the record’s compact disc sleeve, the album is a proof to “popular music without borders”.
A prolific performer, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as is actually part of groove ensemble Heart Casing Task. He has also toured the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 joined South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a frequent port at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz music nightclub, the Jazzafrika Tradition Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and developer, his strategy to jazz music incorporates aspects of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also symphonic music. He researched in The big apple with US pianist Jason Moran and also has launched 3 albums – featuring the seriously well-known Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and also a trio offering, Neo Indigenous, which won the 2019 SAMA for finest jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer released a collection of online performances in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will certainly be actually adhered to by his second studio cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new document, a double cd titled Broadcast Sechaba, supplies a close sight into South Africa’s complex folks as well as an opportunity for worldwide hookup by means of songs. The definition responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is actually demonstrated throughout the album as it sharpens into the related motifs of oneness and confidence.
The album was captured in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the household’s personal Dyertribe workshop with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a gorgeous recording with a wealthy noise and also clear acoustics, reminiscent of old college SA jazz music recordings. The cd likewise demonstrates Bokani’s capability to include present-day effects like the neo-soul scene with his classic upbringing, with Erykah Badu as well as Donny Hathaway looking like important influences as typical SA musicians like Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Dab Metheny.
A solid local color penetrates the report with the opening monitor Ke Nako (‘ allow’s build the nation, it’s opportunity’) vocalized in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was birthed and also reared. The tune is a telephone call to action as well as includes attendee vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Locals.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have perished, a beautiful duet with Yonela Mnana’s spiritual shipment and standard compatibilities. The document ends with a funeral piece gotten in touch with Medu which is created by Bokani and committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that suggests “it’s opportunity,” Ke Nako is a call for Africa to take the limelight in such a way that commemorates the continent’s humankind. The words is component of the official 2010 Planet Cup mantra and has actually likewise been embraced as the style of this particular year’s Black Union Summit.
Dyer has actually collaborated with South African theater supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Little girl/ Kid, created saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Sessions, a show collection commemorating South Africa’s very most prominent jazz composers. He has also captured along with the Bokani Dyer Triad and showed up as a guest in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
Additionally, he has actually executed thoroughly worldwide, featuring at the Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen, Germany. He was also a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and invested 3 full weeks in The big apple being coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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