The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled musician that has explored the planet and also gained a prestigious Pro Helvetia artist residency in Switzerland. His songs blends regional and also international influences.
His standout payment to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is actually has actually been followed up through a complete workshop album called Planet Music. With 15 original keep tracks of, it mirrors his multifaceted impacts.
Emancipate The Story
After winning the Standard Banking company Youthful Musician Honor in 2011 along with his student cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer created a sound groundwork with 2015’s considerable Planet Music as well as 2018’s trio-focused Neo Indigenous. For his debut for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South African pianist, composer as well as developer– that also created and also composed the authentic for the 2023 movie Recording Sensations starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to even more determine his creative velocity, discovering practice while pushing onward the contemporary garden of South Africa jazz. BOKANI DYER
The end result is actually a profoundly religious project that covers the width of the individual knowledge, along with verses revealing a stable of ideas and also tips. If any sort of one keep track of sounds over all, it’s the reflective Resonance of Honest truth, a prayer for self-liberation from people-pleasing as well as a seek perfection.
Throughout 14 keep tracks of that move in personnel, Dyer teams up with a who’s that of South African talent featuring bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and also Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Friend Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and also Carl Thomas are actually one of the lost influences whose rhythmuses inform his personal, while Moses Sumney and also Jordan Rakei supply more contemporary referrals.
Globe Popular music
Having actually succeeded the Criterion Banking company Youthful Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, Globe Music, is actually thick and also layered. It combines professional celebrities like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with fresh ability like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and textures coming from around the world blend. Taking its label from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that pipes the document’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is actually a proof to “songs without any perimeters”.
A respected entertainer, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as belongs to gouge attire Spirit Housing Task. He has actually also explored the UK along with his quintet, and also in 2016 signed up with South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer also curates a regular slot at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz music club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure.
A Motswana-born pianist, composer as well as developer, his method to jazz integrates elements of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He analyzed in The big apple with United States pianist Jason Moran as well as has discharged three cds – featuring the vitally well-known Emancipate The Story, Oscillations, and a triad offering, Neo Native, which won the 2019 SAMA for absolute best jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer released a series of real-time shows in South Africa called ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be actually adhered to through his 2nd studio album Radio Sechaba in 2020.
Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand-new report, a double cd entitled Radio Sechaba, delivers an informal sight right into South Africa’s complex individuals and an option for global connection by means of music. The definition responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – country – is demonstrated throughout the cd as it refines right into the relevant themes of oneness as well as confidence.
The cd was actually captured in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa as well as at the family’s very own Dyertribe center along with designer Tashepo Mothwa. It’s a lovely recording with a rich noise and also clear acoustics, similar to traditional SA jazz music recordings. The cd likewise demonstrates Bokani’s capacity to combine contemporary effects like the neo-soul scene with his classical childhood, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway seeming like important impacts as conventional SA artists such as Oliver Mtukudzi as well as Pat Metheny.
A tough local color permeates the document with the opening monitor Ke Nako (‘ permit’s create the nation, it’s opportunity’) vocalized in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was actually born and also reared. The tune is actually a phone call to activity and includes visitor singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Locals.
The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have actually perished, a stunning duet along with Yonela Mnana’s aerial shipment and conventional harmonies. The document finishes along with a funeral part called Medu which is created through Bokani and also devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who died in 2021.
Ke Nako
A Sesotho phrase that implies “it is actually opportunity,” Ke Nako is actually a require Africa to take the limelight in a manner that commemorates the continent’s mankind. The key phrase becomes part of the formal 2010 World Mug slogan and has also been taken on as the concept of this year’s Black Union Peak.
Dyer has actually worked together with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his manufacturing My Daughter/ Boy, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut album Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure, a performance series celebrating South Africa’s very most famous jazz music authors. He has additionally tape-recorded along with the Bokani Dyer Triad and also seemed like an attendee in the quintet of legendary trumpeter Feya Faku.
In add-on, he has carried out substantially around the globe, including at the Jazzahead feature in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 as well as devoted 3 weeks in New york city being actually coached by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.
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