The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled artist that has explored the world and also succeeded a prestigious Pro Helvetia performer residency in Switzerland. His music mixes neighborhood and also international impacts.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music compilation Indaba Is has actually been actually observed up by a complete studio album called Planet Music. With 15 authentic tracks, it mirrors his multi-dimensional impacts.
Liberate The Story
After succeeding the Standard Financial institution Young Performer Award in 2011 with his student album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer built a sound base along with 2015’s varied Planet Songs and 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author and also manufacturer– that also wrote as well as made up the authentic for the 2023 movie Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– found to further describe his artistic path, looking into practice while driving forward the present-day yard of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER
The end result is a deeply religious venture that extends the breadth of the individual experience, along with verses revealing an assortment of thought and feelings and also ideas. If any type of one track sounds over all, it is actually the meditative Resonance of Reality, a petition for self-liberation from people-pleasing as well as a hunt for perfection.
Throughout 14 tracks that move in personnel, Dyer teams up with a who’s who of South African skill including bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are actually amongst the bygone effects whose tempos notify his very own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei use more modern referrals.
Planet Music
Having actually succeeded the Specification Bank Youthful Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, Planet Music, is actually heavy and split. It incorporates experienced stars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, with fresh talent like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and textures from around the entire world mix. Taking its own title coming from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the record’s CD sleeve, the album is actually a proof to “popular music without any edges”.
A prolific entertainer, Dyer has actually opened for jazz music singer Melanie Scholtz, and belongs to groove outfit Soul Real estate Job. He has also explored the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 joined South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching cd Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a frequent slot at London’s Orbit Jazz music club, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as developer, his method to jazz combines elements of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also timeless music. He researched in New York along with United States pianist Jason Moran as well as has actually launched 3 albums – including the significantly reputable Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and a trio offering, Neo Native, which gained the 2019 SAMA for ideal jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a series of live gigs in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will definitely be actually complied with through his 2nd studio album Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new report, a dual cd labelled Radio Sechaba, gives an informal viewpoint into South Africa’s multi-dimensional people and a possibility for worldwide connection with music. The significance responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is mirrored throughout the album as it develops right into the relevant themes of oneness as well as optimism.
The album was actually captured in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the loved ones’s very own Dyertribe center with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a beautiful recording with a wealthy noise and clear acoustics, evocative old-fashioned SA jazz recordings. The album likewise displays Bokani’s capacity to include present-day impacts like the neo-soul scene with his timeless training, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway looking like significant impacts as conventional SA artists including Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Dab Metheny.
A solid local color penetrates the document along with the opening monitor Ke Nako (‘ let’s develop the country, it’s opportunity’) performed in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed and reared. The song is actually a contact us to action and features attendee vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Locals.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is a lament for those who have perished, a lovely duet along with Yonela Mnana’s aerial delivery and typical tranquilities. The file finishes with a funeral item phoned Medu which is created by Bokani and also dedicated to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that means “it’s time,” Ke Nako is a require Africa to take the spotlight in a manner that celebrates the continent’s mankind. The words is component of the main 2010 Planet Mug trademark and also has actually likewise been embraced as the motif of this particular year’s African Union Top.
Dyer has actually teamed up along with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Child/ Son, made saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure, a performance set celebrating South Africa’s most popular jazz authors. He has actually also documented with the Bokani Dyer Triad and also looked like an attendee in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
On top of that, he has executed extensively around the globe, consisting of at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 as well as spent 3 full weeks in New york city being actually coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.
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