The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled performer who has travelled the world and also gained a prominent Pro Helvetia performer post degree residency in Switzerland. His songs mixes nearby and also international impacts.
His standout payment to Brownswood Audios’ 2021 South Africa jazz compilation Indaba Is actually has been followed up by a complete workshop cd called World Songs. Along with 15 initial keep tracks of, it shows his complex impacts.
Liberate The Account
After succeeding the Requirement Financial institution Young Musician Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a solid structure along with 2015’s considerable Planet Popular music and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his launching for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South Black pianist, composer as well as developer– who likewise wrote and comprised the original for the 2023 movie Catching Feelings starring Kagiso Lediga– found to better specify his imaginative trajectory, looking into tradition while precipitating the modern landscape of South Africa jazz music. Bokanidyer
The outcome is actually a greatly spiritual venture that stretches over the width of the individual knowledge, with lyrics showing a stable of thoughts and ideas. If any kind of one track reverberates over all, it is actually the contemplative Resonance of Fact, a prayer for self-liberation from people-pleasing and also a hunt for perfection.
Across 14 tracks that change in personnel, Dyer works together with a that’s who of South African ability consisting of bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis as well as Carl Thomas are actually one of the bygone impacts whose cadences educate his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei use more present-day referrals.
Globe Popular music
Having actually won the Criterion Bank Youthful Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Planet Music, is thick as well as layered. It mixes professional superstars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new ability like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as structures from around the world intermingle. Taking its headline coming from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the document’s CD sleeve, the cd is actually a testament to “popular music without borderlines”.
A respected entertainer, Dyer has opened for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, and also becomes part of groove attire Spirit Property Project. He has also toured the UK with his quintet, and in 2016 joined South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer also curates a normal port at London’s Orbit Jazz music club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and manufacturer, his method to jazz includes factors of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and timeless songs. He studied in Nyc with US pianist Jason Moran and also has actually discharged 3 albums – including the vitally acclaimed Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, as well as a trio offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for finest jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a series of real-time shows in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will certainly be observed by his second workshop cd Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s new document, a double cd labelled Radio Sechaba, offers an informal perspective into South Africa’s varied people and also a chance for international connection through songs. The definition behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – nation – is shown throughout the album as it develops right into the related themes of oneness and also optimism.
The album was recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the household’s own Dyertribe center with designer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a gorgeous recording along with a rich audio and also very clear acoustics, reminiscent of old-fashioned SA jazz recordings. The cd also displays Bokani’s potential to incorporate contemporary influences like the neo-soul setting with his timeless upbringing, along with Erykah Badu as well as Donny Hathaway appearing as vital effects as standard SA artists like Oliver Mtukudzi and Pat Metheny.
A sturdy feeling of location permeates the record along with the opening monitor Ke Nako (‘ permit’s construct the nation, it’s time’) sung in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was born and raised. The tune is actually a phone call to activity as well as features attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi and the Locals.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those that have actually passed away, a wonderful duet along with Yonela Mnana’s angelic shipping and also conventional tranquilities. The file ends along with a funeral part contacted Medu which is actually written through Bokani and also committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that indicates “it is actually opportunity,” Ke Nako is an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a way that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The expression is part of the formal 2010 World Cup mantra and has likewise been actually used as the concept of this year’s African Union Peak.
Dyer has worked together along with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Child/ Child, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure, a gig set celebrating South Africa’s very most noticeable jazz authors. He has also tape-recorded with the Bokani Dyer Trio and seemed like a visitor in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Furthermore, he has executed extensively worldwide, featuring at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was actually also a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and also spent 3 weeks in New york city being tutored by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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