The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled performer who has explored the world and also won a famous Pro Helvetia artist residency in Switzerland. His music combinations nearby and also international impacts.
His standout payment to Brownswood Audios’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is has actually been actually adhered to up through a full center cd named World Popular music. Along with 15 authentic tracks, it reflects his complex effects.
Emancipate The Tale
After gaining the Standard Bank Young Musician Honor in 2011 along with his student album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a sound foundation along with 2015’s comprehensive World Popular music and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and also producer– that additionally wrote and comprised the authentic for the 2023 film Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– sought to even more define his creative trajectory, discovering heritage while pressing forward the present-day garden of South Africa jazz music. BOKANDIYER
The end result is actually a greatly spiritual job that covers the breadth of the individual adventure, with verses conveying a variety of notions and also concepts. If any kind of one keep track of sounds over all, it is actually the introspective Vibration of Fact, a request for self-liberation from people-pleasing as well as a hunt for perfection.
Throughout 14 tracks that shift in workers, Dyer teams up with a who’s who of South African ability featuring bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends as well as Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Pal 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 cadences inform his personal, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei offer additional present-day referrals.
Planet Popular music
Having actually won the Criterion Financial institution Youthful Artist award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, Globe Music, is heavy and split. It incorporates experienced celebrities like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with fresh talent like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms as well as appearances coming from around the world intermingle. Taking its own label from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that lines the document’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a testimony to “music without any borderlines”.
A respected artist, Dyer has opened for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, and is actually component of canal clothing Soul Property Project. He has additionally explored the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 signed up with South African jazz vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer also curates a frequent port at Greater london’s Track Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and manufacturer, his method to jazz music combines components of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and classical popular music. He researched in New york city along with United States pianist Jason Moran and also has actually discharged three cds – featuring the seriously acclaimed Emancipate The Tale, Oscillations, and also a trio offering, Neo Native, which succeeded the 2019 SAMA for greatest jazz album. In 2018, Dyer introduced a collection of online concerts in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will certainly be observed through his 2nd workshop album Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new record, a dual album labelled Broadcast Sechaba, offers an intimate viewpoint into South Africa’s multi-dimensional folks and also a possibility for international relationship via music. The meaning behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the label – country – is actually reflected throughout the album as it polishes into the related styles of oneness as well as optimism.
The album was recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the family members’s own Dyertribe workshop along with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a wonderful recording along with a wealthy sound and very clear acoustics, evocative old college SA jazz audios. The cd additionally displays Bokani’s potential to combine modern influences like the neo-soul scene with his classic childhood, along with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway seeming like important influences as conventional SA artists such as Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Pat Metheny.
A strong local color penetrates the report along with the position track Ke Nako (‘ let’s construct the country, it’s opportunity’) performed in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed and brought up. The song is actually a call to action and also includes guest singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi and the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those that have actually died, a gorgeous duet with Yonela Mnana’s heavenly distribution as well as conventional harmonies. The record finishes along with a funeral piece phoned Medu which is created through Bokani and 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 call for Africa to take the limelight in a manner that commemorates the continent’s humanity. The key phrase is component of the official 2010 Globe Cup trademark as well as has also been actually taken on as the theme of this year’s Black Union Top.
Dyer has teamed up along with South African theatre director Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Daughter/ Kid, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut album Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions, a performance collection celebrating South Africa’s very most famous jazz music composers. He has also videotaped along with the Bokani Dyer Triad as well as looked like a guest in the quintet of fabulous trumpeter Feya Faku.
In add-on, he has done substantially internationally, featuring at the Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen, Germany. He was likewise a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and also devoted 3 weeks in Nyc being tutored through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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