The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled artist that has toured the planet and also won a distinguished Pro Helvetia performer residency in Switzerland. His popular music mixtures local area and also global effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is has actually been complied with up by a complete workshop album named World Songs. With 15 authentic tracks, it reflects his varied effects.
Emancipate The Tale
After succeeding the Specification Financial institution Young Performer Award in 2011 along with his student cd Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer developed a sound base along with 2015’s wide-ranging Planet Music as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author and producer– who likewise wrote and made up the original for the 2023 movie Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to further determine his imaginative trajectory, exploring heritage while pressing onward the contemporary garden of South Africa jazz music. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
The outcome is actually a heavily spiritual project that covers the breadth of the individual adventure, with lyrics expressing a series of ideas and tips. If any kind of one keep track of sounds most importantly, it’s the reflective Resonance of Reality, a request for self-liberation from people-pleasing and a hunt for perfection.
Around 14 keep tracks of that move in staffs, Dyer teams up along with a who’s who of South African talent featuring bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Buddy Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and also Carl Thomas are actually amongst the bygone impacts whose tempos educate his very own, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei use even more contemporary referrals.
Globe Popular music
Having won the Specification Bank Young Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Popular music, is actually dense and layered. It integrates professional stars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with fresh ability like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin and Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and structures from around the world mingle. Taking its own label from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the file’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is actually a testimony to “songs without any borderlines”.
A respected entertainer, Dyer has opened up for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, as well as is actually part of gouge attire Heart Property Job. He has actually likewise toured the UK with his quintet, and also in 2016 joined South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer likewise curates a regular port at London’s Track Jazz nightclub, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, author and also developer, his technique to jazz music combines aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and classic popular music. He examined in Nyc along with United States pianist Jason Moran as well as has launched 3 albums – including the extremely acclaimed Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and a trio offering, Neo Indigenous, which succeeded the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz album. In 2018, Dyer launched a collection of online concerts in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be actually followed by his 2nd workshop cd Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new report, a dual album titled Radio Sechaba, delivers a close view right into South Africa’s complex folks as well as an option for international link through music. The meaning behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the label – nation – is reflected throughout the album as it develops right into the related concepts of uniformity as well as confidence.
The cd was actually videotaped in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and at the family’s own Dyertribe center along with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a gorgeous audio with a prosperous sound and also crystal clear acoustics, evocative of old-fashioned SA jazz music recordings. The cd also illustrates Bokani’s capability to include modern effects like the neo-soul scene along with his classic upbringing, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway looking like essential influences as typical SA musicians like Oliver Mtukudzi and Pat Metheny.
A tough sense of location permeates the report with the opening keep track of Ke Nako (‘ permit’s develop the country, it is actually time’) performed in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed as well as reared. The track is actually a contact us to action and includes attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those that have actually died, a stunning duet with Yonela Mnana’s heavenly delivery and conventional consistencies. The report ends along with a funeral part phoned Medu which is written by Bokani and also committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that implies “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 phrase becomes part of the main 2010 Planet Cup mantra and also has actually likewise been actually used as the style of this particular year’s Black Union Peak.
Dyer has teamed up with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his production My Little girl/ Child, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions, a show series commemorating South Africa’s most prominent jazz music composers. He has actually also videotaped with the Bokani Dyer Trio and seemed like a visitor in the quintet of epic trumpeter Feya Faku.
Furthermore, he has actually executed substantially globally, consisting of at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was also a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and invested 3 weeks in New york city being actually tutored by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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