The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled musician that has actually visited the globe and won a distinguished Pro Helvetia artist post degree residency in Switzerland. His music mixtures local area as well as global impacts.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is has been adhered to up through a full center album referred to as Globe Music. Along with 15 original tracks, it mirrors his multi-dimensional impacts.
Emancipate The Tale
After succeeding the Specification Banking company Young Performer Honor in 2011 with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer created a solid groundwork with 2015’s wide-ranging Globe Songs as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and developer– that also composed and composed the authentic for the 2023 movie Catching Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to further define his imaginative trail, checking out practice while precipitating the modern garden of South Africa jazz. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
The result is a deeply metaphysical job that reaches the breadth of the individual expertise, along with lyrics showing an array of ideas and also ideas. If any one path reverberates most of all, it’s the introspective Vibration of Reality, a prayer for self-liberation from people-pleasing as well as a hunt for perfection.
Throughout 14 monitors that shift in staffs, Dyer collaborates along with a who’s that of South African ability consisting of bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Friend Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are actually one of the past influences whose rhythmuses update his personal, while Moses Sumney and also Jordan Rakei provide even more present-day referrals.
World Popular music
Having actually won the Standard Financial institution Young Musician honor for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, Globe Songs, is thick and split. It combines seasoned stars like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, with new ability like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and appearances coming from around the world blend. Taking its own headline coming from a rhyme by Ntone Edjabe that pipes the file’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is actually a testament to “songs without any borders”.
A respected performer, Dyer has actually opened for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as is part of canal attire Heart Real estate Project. He has additionally visited the UK with his quintet, and also in 2016 participated in South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a regular port at Greater london’s Track Jazz music nightclub, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions.
A Motswana-born pianist, author as well as manufacturer, his strategy to jazz music combines elements of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also timeless music. He researched in The big apple with US pianist Jason Moran as well as has discharged three cds – including the extremely well-known Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and a triad offering, Neo Native, which won the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz music album. In 2018, Dyer launched a set of live gigs in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be actually followed by his second center cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new record, a double album entitled Broadcast Sechaba, offers an informal viewpoint into South Africa’s multi-dimensional individuals and also a possibility for international hookup with songs. The definition behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – nation – is actually demonstrated throughout the album as it polishes right into the associated concepts of uniformity as well as optimism.
The cd was actually captured in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the loved ones’s very own Dyertribe workshop with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a beautiful audio along with a prosperous noise and very clear acoustics, remindful of old-fashioned SA jazz recordings. The album also displays Bokani’s capacity to include contemporary influences like the neo-soul setting along with his classical training, with Erykah Badu as well as Donny Hathaway seeming as necessary impacts as typical SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi and also Dab Metheny.
A solid sense of area permeates the document with the position keep track of Ke Nako (‘ allow’s construct the country, it’s time’) vocalized in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was born and reared. The track is actually a telephone call to action as well as features guest singer Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and also the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those that have passed away, a wonderful duet with Yonela Mnana’s heavenly shipping and also traditional harmonies. The report ends with a funeral item phoned Medu which is actually composed through Bokani as well as devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that means “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is actually an ask for Africa to take the spotlight in such a way that commemorates the continent’s mankind. The expression is actually component of the official 2010 Planet Cup slogan as well as has actually likewise been embraced as the motif of this year’s Black Union Top.
Dyer has actually collaborated along with South African theater supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his development My Child/ Boy, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure, a gig series commemorating South Africa’s most famous jazz authors. He has additionally recorded with the Bokani Dyer Trio and also appeared as a guest in the quintet of fabulous trumpeter Feya Faku.
Additionally, he has actually conducted widely internationally, featuring at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was actually additionally a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also invested 3 full weeks in The big apple being trained through jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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