The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled performer that has travelled the planet and also gained a respected Pro Helvetia artist residency in Switzerland. His music combinations regional as well as international effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music compilation Indaba Is has actually been observed up by a full studio cd called Globe Music. Along with 15 original tracks, it reflects his multifaceted influences.
Emancipate The Account
After succeeding the Standard Financial institution Youthful Artist Award in 2011 with his sophomore album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer created a strong groundwork with 2015’s extensive Planet Music as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and producer– that also composed and composed the original for the 2023 film Catching Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– found to further define his imaginative trajectory, discovering practice while pushing ahead the present-day garden of South Africa jazz music. Bokanidyer
The outcome is actually a profoundly spiritual project that covers the width of the individual experience, along with verses showing a series of ideas and ideas. If any type of one keep track of reverberates most of all, it is actually the introspective Resonance of Truth, a request for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing as well as a seek perfection.
Throughout 14 keep tracks of that change in employees, Dyer collaborates with a who’s who of South African talent consisting of bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Buddy Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are one of the lost influences whose cadences notify his very own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei supply more modern recommendations.
World Popular music
Having actually gained the Requirement Banking company Young Musician honor for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, World Songs, is actually thick and also layered. It incorporates veteran superstars like bassist Shane Cooper and drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new ability like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also structures coming from around the world mingle. Taking its title coming from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the report’s CD sleeve, the album is a testament to “popular music without any borders”.
A respected performer, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, and belongs to canal outfit Spirit Housing Job. He has actually also explored the UK along with his quintet, as well as in 2016 participated in South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer also curates a routine port at Greater london’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and also manufacturer, his technique to jazz integrates factors of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He examined in New york city with United States pianist Jason Moran and has discharged 3 cds – including the vitally reputable Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and a triad offering, Neo Indigenous, which won the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer released a set of live shows in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will be adhered to by his 2nd center cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new document, a double album entitled Radio Sechaba, provides a close sight into South Africa’s multifaceted folks and a chance for international relationship by means of songs. The meaning responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – country – is actually mirrored throughout the album as it develops into the similar themes of unity and also positive outlook.
The album was recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the family’s personal Dyertribe center with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a wonderful audio along with a rich audio as well as very clear acoustics, similar to old institution SA jazz audios. The cd likewise shows Bokani’s capacity to integrate modern effects like the neo-soul scene with his classic childhood, with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway seeming like vital influences as typical SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi and also Dab Metheny.
A strong local color permeates the document along with the position track Ke Nako (‘ let’s create the country, it’s opportunity’) sung in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was actually born and also raised. The song is actually a contact us to action and includes attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and also the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have actually perished, a stunning duet along with Yonela Mnana’s spiritual shipment and also traditional consistencies. The record ends with a funeral piece phoned Medu which is written through Bokani and also dedicated to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that suggests “it’s time,” Ke Nako is actually a telephone call for Africa to take the spotlight in a manner that celebrates the continent’s humanity. The key phrase is part of the main 2010 Planet Mug mantra and also has additionally been taken on as the motif of this year’s African Union Top.
Dyer has actually teamed up along with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Child/ Boy, produced saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure, a concert set commemorating South Africa’s most prominent jazz music authors. He has likewise documented with the Bokani Dyer Trio and also looked like a visitor in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
Additionally, he has actually conducted substantially worldwide, featuring at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was actually likewise a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also invested 3 full weeks in The big apple being tutored through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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