The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled entertainer who has actually visited the planet and gained a respected Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His songs combinations nearby and also worldwide impacts.
His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is has actually been followed up through a total workshop album named Globe Music. Along with 15 authentic monitors, it shows his varied impacts.
Liberate The Story
After succeeding the Criterion Financial institution Youthful Musician Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Story, Bokani Dyer developed a sound base along with 2015’s considerable Planet Popular music as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South Black pianist, composer and also developer– who also wrote and also made up the original for the 2023 movie Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to better define his artistic trail, exploring custom while driving forward the modern yard of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER
The outcome is actually a profoundly religious job that extends the width of the human expertise, along with lyrics conveying a variety of thoughts and suggestions. If any sort of one keep track of sounds most of all, it’s the introspective Resonance of Honest truth, a prayer for self-liberation coming from people-pleasing and also a search for transcendence.
All over 14 keep tracks of that change in workers, Dyer works together with a who’s who of South African skill featuring bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends as well as Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Buddy Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are one of the bygone effects whose tempos update his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei offer additional contemporary recommendations.
Planet Popular music
Having succeeded the Standard Financial institution Youthful Artist honor for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Songs, is actually thick as well as layered. It integrates experienced stars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new skill like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and structures from around the entire world intermingle. Taking its label coming from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the report’s CD sleeve, the cd is actually a testament to “songs without borderlines”.
A respected artist, Dyer has opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, and is part of gouge ensemble Spirit Property Venture. He has actually likewise explored the UK along with his quintet, and also in 2016 signed up with South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer likewise curates a frequent port at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and developer, his technique to jazz music integrates elements of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He analyzed in New york city along with United States pianist Jason Moran as well as has actually discharged three albums – including the significantly well-known Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and a trio offering, Neo Indigenous, which gained the 2019 SAMA for best jazz album. In 2018, Dyer released a series of online gigs in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will definitely be adhered to through his second workshop album Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s new record, a dual album entitled Broadcast Sechaba, provides a close view right into South Africa’s diverse people and also an option for global hookup by means of popular music. The definition responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is actually shown throughout the cd as it polishes right into the associated motifs of oneness and confidence.
The album was actually documented in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the household’s personal Dyertribe studio with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a beautiful recording with a rich noise and clear acoustics, similar to old institution SA jazz recordings. The album likewise displays Bokani’s capability to incorporate present-day impacts like the neo-soul scene with his classical childhood, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway seeming like essential impacts as standard SA musicians like Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Pat Metheny.
A solid feeling of location goes through the document along with the position monitor Ke Nako (‘ let’s build the nation, it’s opportunity’) vocalized in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was born as well as reared. The tune is a phone call to activity and also includes attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and also the Citizens.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those that have actually perished, a gorgeous duet along with Yonela Mnana’s heavenly shipment and conventional harmonies. The document ends with a funeral item contacted Medu which is actually composed by Bokani as well as committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that indicates “it’s opportunity,” Ke Nako is a phone call for Africa to take the limelight in such a way that celebrates the continent’s humankind. The words becomes part of the official 2010 Globe Cup motto as well as has actually also been actually used as the theme of this particular year’s African Union Summit.
Dyer has actually worked together with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Daughter/ Child, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Sessions, a concert collection commemorating South Africa’s most famous jazz authors. He has likewise recorded with the Bokani Dyer Trio and also seemed like an attendee in the quintet of fabulous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Furthermore, he has actually carried out thoroughly globally, featuring at the Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen, Germany. He was also a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also devoted 3 weeks in New york city being actually tutored by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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