The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled performer that has explored the globe and succeeded a distinguished Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His songs combinations nearby and also worldwide effects.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz compilation Indaba Is actually has been observed up through a complete workshop album called Globe Popular music. Along with 15 initial keep tracks of, it demonstrates his diverse influences.
Liberate The Tale
After succeeding the Requirement Bank Youthful Musician Honor in 2011 along with his student cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a solid base with 2015’s considerable World Songs as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author and manufacturer– that likewise created and also comprised the authentic for the 2023 film Catching Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– found to additionally define his imaginative path, looking into practice while driving forward the modern garden of South Africa jazz music. More about the author
The result is a greatly religious job that extends the width of the individual adventure, along with lyrics conveying a series of ideas and suggestions. If any type of one monitor reverberates over all, it’s the contemplative Vibration of Fact, a request for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing as well as a seek perfection.
Across 14 monitors that switch in personnel, Dyer collaborates with a who’s that of South African talent including bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Pal 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 cadences educate his personal, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei offer more modern references.
Planet Songs
Having gained the Criterion Banking company Young Musician honor for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Globe Music, is heavy as well as layered. It combines experienced stars like bassist Shane Cooper and drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new ability like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as structures from around the planet intermingle. Taking its label coming from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the document’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a proof to “music without any perimeters”.
A respected artist, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz vocalist Melanie Scholtz, and belongs to gouge attire Spirit Real estate Task. He has actually likewise explored the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 signed up with South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a normal slot at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz music nightclub, the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as manufacturer, his strategy to jazz incorporates factors of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He examined in Nyc along with US pianist Jason Moran and has actually launched 3 albums – including the seriously reputable Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and a triad offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz album. In 2018, Dyer released a collection of online shows in South Africa got in touch with ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will be followed by his 2nd studio cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new document, a dual album titled Broadcast Sechaba, offers an intimate viewpoint right into South Africa’s varied individuals and a chance for worldwide hookup through music. The significance responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – nation – is shown throughout the album as it polishes right into the related themes of unity and confidence.
The album was captured in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the household’s very own Dyertribe workshop along with designer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a gorgeous recording along with an affluent sound and crystal clear acoustics, evocative old-fashioned SA jazz music audios. The album likewise demonstrates Bokani’s ability to combine contemporary influences like the neo-soul scene along with his classical instruction, along with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway seeming like significant effects as typical SA performers including Oliver Mtukudzi and Dab Metheny.
A powerful local color goes through the record with the opening keep track of Ke Nako (‘ permit’s construct the nation, it is actually time’) performed in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was born and also increased. The track is a call to activity and features visitor singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi as well as the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those who have actually died, a wonderful duet along with Yonela Mnana’s angelic shipment and conventional consistencies. The report ends along with a funeral part called Medu which is composed by Bokani as well as committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that means “it’s opportunity,” Ke Nako is actually a require Africa to take the spotlight in a manner that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The words belongs to the official 2010 Planet Mug slogan and also has additionally been actually taken on as the concept of this particular year’s Black Union Summit.
Dyer has worked together along with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Daughter/ Boy, created saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching album Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure, a show series celebrating South Africa’s very most famous jazz authors. He has actually likewise captured along with the Bokani Dyer Trio and also seemed as a guest in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
In addition, he has performed substantially around the globe, consisting of at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and devoted 3 weeks in Nyc being actually tutored through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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