The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled artist who has actually explored the world and gained a prominent Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His music mixes regional and global influences.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz compilation Indaba Is has been actually adhered to up by a full studio cd referred to as Planet Popular music. Along with 15 authentic monitors, it mirrors his complex impacts.
Liberate The Account
After succeeding the Standard Financial institution Youthful Artist Honor in 2011 with his student album Emancipate The Account, Bokani Dyer created a sound groundwork along with 2015’s varied World Songs as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, composer and also developer– that likewise created and comprised the original for the 2023 film Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– sought to further determine his imaginative trajectory, checking out tradition while precipitating the modern landscape of South Africa jazz music. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
The end result is actually a greatly metaphysical job that stretches over the breadth of the human expertise, with lyrics sharing a series of notions and concepts. If any kind of one monitor resonates most importantly, it’s the meditative Resonance of Reality, a request for self-liberation from people-pleasing and a hunt for perfection.
Across 14 monitors that switch in employees, Dyer collaborates along with a who’s who of South African talent consisting of bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are actually one of the bygone effects whose cadences update his very own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei offer more contemporary endorsements.
Globe Music
Having won the Standard Financial institution Youthful Performer honor for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Planet Popular music, is actually dense as well as split. It integrates seasoned stars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new talent like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin and Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as textures coming from around the globe blend. Taking its own title coming from a rhyme by Ntone Edjabe that lines the file’s compact disc sleeve, the album is a testimony to “music without any borders”.
A prolific performer, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as becomes part of groove ensemble Heart Housing Venture. He has actually likewise toured the UK with his quintet, as well as in 2016 participated in South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching cd Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a routine port at London’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and developer, his approach to jazz includes factors of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and classic songs. He researched in New York along with US pianist Jason Moran as well as has released three albums – featuring the significantly acclaimed Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and also a triad offering, Neo Indigenous, which gained the 2019 SAMA for best jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer released a series of real-time gigs in South Africa called ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will definitely be adhered to by his second center album Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new record, a dual cd labelled Radio Sechaba, delivers a close scenery in to South Africa’s multi-dimensional individuals and also an option for global link via music. The definition responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is actually reflected throughout the album as it hones into the related motifs of uniformity and also positive outlook.
The album was actually recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the loved ones’s very own Dyertribe workshop along with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a gorgeous recording with a wealthy audio as well as clear acoustics, evocative old university SA jazz recordings. The cd additionally shows Bokani’s ability to include modern impacts like the neo-soul setting with his timeless instruction, with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway showing up as crucial influences as standard SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Pat Metheny.
A tough sense of location permeates the file along with the opening keep track of Ke Nako (‘ allow’s create the country, it is actually opportunity’) vocalized in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was birthed as well as brought up. The song is a call to action as well as features 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 actually died, a beautiful duet along with Yonela Mnana’s ethereal shipment as well as standard tranquilities. The document finishes with a funeral piece gotten in touch with Medu which is created through Bokani and committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that implies “it’s opportunity,” Ke Nako is a require Africa to take the limelight in such a way that celebrates the continent’s humankind. The expression becomes part of the main 2010 World Mug slogan and also has additionally been actually taken on as the style of the year’s African Union Top.
Dyer has teamed up along with South African theater supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his development My Daughter/ Son, produced saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching album Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure, a show set celebrating South Africa’s most famous jazz music composers. He has actually likewise taped with the Bokani Dyer Triad as well as seemed like a guest in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Moreover, he has executed extensively worldwide, consisting of at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and spent 3 full weeks in New York being coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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