The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled entertainer who has actually travelled the globe and succeeded a prestigious Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His music combinations local and also global influences.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is has been actually adhered to up by a complete center cd named Planet Songs. With 15 authentic keep tracks of, it mirrors his multi-dimensional impacts.
Liberate The Account
After winning the Specification Bank Young Musician Award in 2011 with his student album Emancipate The Account, Bokani Dyer built a strong groundwork along with 2015’s varied Planet Popular music and 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, composer as well as developer– who additionally wrote as well as composed the initial for the 2023 film Capturing Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to better describe his artistic path, discovering heritage while precipitating the modern landscape of South Africa jazz music. Bokanidyer
The end result is a profoundly religious project that covers the width of the individual adventure, with verses sharing a stable of notions as well as concepts. If any sort of one path reverberates most importantly, it’s the reflective Resonance of Fact, a prayer for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing and also a hunt for perfection.
All over 14 keep tracks of that move in workers, Dyer collaborates with a that’s who of South African talent including bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Friend Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are actually among the past effects whose cadences update his personal, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei give even more contemporary recommendations.
Planet Music
Having actually gained the Requirement Financial institution Young Musician honor for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Music, is thick and also layered. It incorporates professional stars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with fresh ability like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as structures from around the world blend. Taking its label coming from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the report’s CD sleeve, the cd is a testimony to “music without any borders”.
A respected artist, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, and belongs to gouge ensemble Heart Casing Task. He has actually likewise travelled 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 likewise curates a normal slot at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz nightclub, the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, author as well as producer, his approach to jazz includes factors of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He examined in New York with United States pianist Jason Moran and also has released 3 albums – featuring the extremely acclaimed Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and also a triad offering, Neo Indigenous, which won the 2019 SAMA for greatest jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer released a series of real-time concerts in South Africa got in touch with ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will definitely be actually adhered to by his second studio album Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new document, a double album labelled Radio Sechaba, provides an informal sight into South Africa’s multifaceted folks and also an opportunity for worldwide hookup by means of popular music. The meaning behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the label – nation – is actually shown throughout the album as it refines right into the related themes of uniformity and positive outlook.
The album was documented in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the family’s personal Dyertribe studio along with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually an attractive audio along with an affluent audio and also very clear acoustics, evocative old-fashioned SA jazz audios. The album also displays Bokani’s potential to integrate present-day impacts like the neo-soul scene along with his classical training, with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway looking as essential effects as typical SA artists including Oliver Mtukudzi and Pat Metheny.
A powerful feeling of place goes through the report along with the position track Ke Nako (‘ permit’s build the country, it’s time’) sung 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 singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and the Citizens.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have actually passed away, a gorgeous duet with Yonela Mnana’s spiritual shipping as well as conventional harmonies. The file finishes along with a funeral piece gotten in touch with Medu which is created by Bokani and also devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that means “it’s time,” Ke Nako is actually an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a means that celebrates the continent’s humankind. The phrase belongs to the official 2010 Globe Cup trademark and also has also been actually taken on as the motif of this year’s African Union Summit.
Dyer has actually collaborated with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Daughter/ Son, produced saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching album Iyonde, and curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure, a gig collection celebrating South Africa’s very most prominent jazz music authors. He has actually additionally documented with the Bokani Dyer Trio as well as appeared as a guest in the quintet of fabulous trumpeter Feya Faku.
In enhancement, he has conducted widely around the globe, featuring at the Jazzahead feature in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also devoted 3 weeks in New york city being actually trained through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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