The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled musician who has actually explored the planet and also won a distinguished Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His music mixtures nearby and also global effects.
His standout payment to Brownswood Audios’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is has actually been actually followed up through a total workshop album referred to as Planet Popular music. With 15 initial monitors, it reflects his diverse effects.
Liberate The Story
After succeeding the Criterion Banking company Young Performer Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore album Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer developed a solid structure with 2015’s wide-ranging World Songs and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, composer and manufacturer– that additionally wrote and comprised the initial for the 2023 movie Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– found to additionally determine his creative trail, looking into practice while precipitating the contemporary landscape of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER
The end result is actually a profoundly spiritual project that covers the breadth of the human adventure, along with verses expressing a series of notions and suggestions. If any sort of one keep track of sounds most of all, it’s the contemplative Vibration of Reality, a prayer for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing as well as a hunt for perfection.
Throughout 14 tracks that switch in workers, Dyer works together along with a that’s who of South African ability consisting of bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends as well as Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Pal Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and also Carl Thomas are amongst the lost influences whose tempos update his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei offer more modern recommendations.
Globe Music
Having gained the Requirement Banking company Young Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, World Music, is actually thick as well as split. It incorporates seasoned celebrities like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new talent like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and textures from around the planet intermingle. Taking its headline from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that lines the document’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a proof to “music along with no perimeters”.
A respected performer, Dyer has opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as becomes part of canal ensemble Spirit Housing Venture. He has additionally visited the UK with his quintet, as well as in 2016 joined South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her launching cd Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a frequent slot at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as manufacturer, his approach to jazz music combines elements of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also timeless popular music. He examined in Nyc along with United States pianist Jason Moran and has actually launched three cds – including the critically acclaimed Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and also a trio offering, Neo Indigenous, which won the 2019 SAMA for finest jazz album. In 2018, Dyer launched a set of real-time shows in South Africa called ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will definitely be actually observed through his second center cd Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s new file, a double album titled Radio Sechaba, provides a close sight right into South Africa’s multifaceted folks and also an option for global relationship through music. The significance responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the label – country – is mirrored throughout the album as it hones right into the related styles of oneness and optimism.
The cd was actually taped in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and at the family’s very own Dyertribe studio with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a stunning audio along with a wealthy noise and also crystal clear acoustics, similar to old-fashioned SA jazz music audios. The album also shows Bokani’s potential to include present-day effects like the neo-soul setting along with his timeless training, along with Erykah Badu as well as Donny Hathaway looking like essential impacts as conventional SA musicians like Oliver Mtukudzi and Dab Metheny.
A powerful local color permeates the document with the position monitor Ke Nako (‘ let’s construct the nation, it is actually opportunity’) sung in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed and increased. The song is a phone call to activity and includes guest singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi as well as the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have died, a lovely duet with Yonela Mnana’s aerial delivery and typical tranquilities. The document ends along with a funeral part gotten in touch with Medu which is composed by Bokani as well as committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that implies “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is actually a require Africa to take the limelight in a manner that celebrates the continent’s humanity. The words is part of the official 2010 Planet Mug motto as well as has likewise been actually taken on as the concept of this year’s African Union Summit.
Dyer has actually worked together with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his development My Child/ Kid, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, and curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure, a gig set celebrating South Africa’s very most popular jazz music composers. He has actually likewise recorded along with the Bokani Dyer Triad and also appeared as an attendee in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Furthermore, he has actually performed substantially around the globe, featuring at the Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen, Germany. He was actually likewise a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 as well as devoted 3 full weeks in New York being coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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