The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled musician who has actually visited the world and also won a prominent Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His popular music combinations neighborhood and also international impacts.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz compilation Indaba Is actually has been followed up through a complete workshop album called Planet Popular music. Along with 15 original tracks, it reflects his diverse impacts.
Emancipate The Tale
After succeeding the Criterion Banking company Youthful Performer Award in 2011 along with his sophomore album Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer built a strong base along with 2015’s comprehensive World Music and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author as well as developer– who likewise created and also made up the authentic for the 2023 movie Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– found to better describe his creative trail, looking into tradition while pressing onward the contemporary garden of South Africa jazz music. More about the author
The result is a heavily religious task that covers the breadth of the individual adventure, along with verses sharing a variety of notions as well as ideas. If any kind of one track sounds over all, it is actually the contemplative Vibration of Fact, a prayer for self-liberation from people-pleasing and a hunt for transcendence.
Around 14 monitors that change in personnel, Dyer teams up along with a who’s that of South African talent consisting of bass guitar players Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Pal Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are amongst the bygone influences whose cadences educate his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei offer even more modern references.
Planet Popular music
Having actually succeeded the Criterion Banking company Young Musician honor for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Popular music, is actually dense and also layered. It incorporates skilled stars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with fresh skill like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin and also Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and structures from around the world mix. Taking its title coming from a poem through Ntone Edjabe that lines the document’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a testimony to “music without any edges”.
A respected entertainer, Dyer has opened for jazz music singer Melanie Scholtz, and also belongs to groove clothing Soul Property Job. He has actually additionally toured the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 signed up with South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut album Iyonde. Dyer likewise curates a normal port at Greater london’s Track Jazz music club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer and developer, his approach to jazz music incorporates components of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin, as well as classical popular music. He studied in New York with United States pianist Jason Moran and has actually discharged 3 albums – featuring the vitally reputable Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, as well as a triad offering, Neo Indigenous, which won the 2019 SAMA for greatest jazz cd. In 2018, Dyer launched a set of online gigs in South Africa contacted ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be adhered to through his 2nd studio cd Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new document, a dual cd labelled Radio Sechaba, delivers an intimate scenery into South Africa’s varied individuals and also a chance for worldwide connection with music. The meaning behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – country – is reflected throughout the cd as it develops into the similar concepts of unity and also positive outlook.
The album was documented in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and also at the family members’s very own Dyertribe center along with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a gorgeous audio with a prosperous audio and also crystal clear acoustics, evocative of traditional SA jazz music audios. The cd likewise shows Bokani’s potential to include present-day impacts like the neo-soul scene along with his classical training, with Erykah Badu as well as Donny Hathaway looking like significant impacts as traditional SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Pat Metheny.
A sturdy feeling of spot permeates the file with the position track Ke Nako (‘ allow’s develop the nation, it’s time’) vocalized in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was birthed as well as increased. The tune is actually a contact us to action and includes visitor vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi from the band Sereetsi and also the Natives.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have actually died, an attractive duet along with Yonela Mnana’s spiritual shipment and also conventional harmonies. The document finishes along with a funeral part called Medu which is created by Bokani as well as committed to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that implies “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is actually a require Africa to take the limelight in such a way that commemorates the continent’s mankind. The key phrase becomes part of the formal 2010 Planet Cup mantra and also has also been actually adopted as the motif of the year’s Black Union Peak.
Dyer has actually worked together along with South African theatre supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his development My Little girl/ Kid, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions, a gig series celebrating South Africa’s very most noticeable jazz music composers. He has also captured with the Bokani Dyer Trio as well as seemed as a guest in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.
On top of that, he has actually done extensively worldwide, including at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was actually also a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and devoted 3 weeks in New York being actually coached by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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