The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled artist that has actually explored the globe as well as gained a respected Pro Helvetia artist residency in Switzerland. His songs blends nearby and global effects.

His standout addition to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz collection Indaba Is has been actually complied with up through a full center album called World Popular music. Along with 15 original keep tracks of, it shows his diverse effects.

Liberate The Tale
After succeeding the Criterion Bank Youthful Musician Honor in 2011 along with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a solid groundwork along with 2015’s considerable Planet Music and 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South African pianist, composer and also developer– that additionally composed and made up the initial for the 2023 film Catching Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to additionally describe his creative trail, checking out tradition while driving ahead the present-day yard of South Africa jazz music. BOKANI DYER

The outcome is actually a deeply religious venture that stretches over the width of the individual expertise, with verses showing a series of thought and feelings and also tips. If any kind of one path resonates above all, it is actually the reflective Resonance of Fact, a petition for self-liberation from people-pleasing and a seek transcendence.

All over 14 monitors that move in staffs, Dyer works together along with a that’s that of South African skill featuring bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends and Reza Khota, singer Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Buddy Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and also Carl Thomas are actually one of the lost impacts whose tempos update his personal, while Moses Sumney as well as Jordan Rakei deliver additional contemporary references.

Globe Popular music
Having actually succeeded the Requirement Banking company Young Musician honor for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Globe Music, is actually heavy as well as split. It integrates veteran celebrities like bassist Shane Cooper and also drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new skill like vocalists Lee-Anne Fortuin and Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also textures coming from around the globe mingle. Taking its title from a rhyme by Ntone Edjabe that lines the record’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a proof to “popular music without edges”.

A prolific artist, Dyer has opened up for jazz music vocalist Melanie Scholtz, as well as is actually part of groove ensemble Heart Casing Venture. He has additionally toured the UK along with his quintet, as well as in 2016 participated in South African jazz singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut cd Iyonde. Dyer likewise curates a normal port at Greater london’s Track Jazz music nightclub, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions.

A Motswana-born pianist, composer and developer, his method to jazz music incorporates components of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and symphonic music. He analyzed in New york city with United States pianist Jason Moran as well as has launched 3 albums – including the seriously reputable Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, as well as a trio offering, Neo Native, which succeeded the 2019 SAMA for absolute best jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer introduced a collection of real-time performances in South Africa called ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which will certainly be followed through his second workshop cd Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.

Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s new report, a dual album titled Broadcast Sechaba, gives an informal view right into South Africa’s multi-dimensional people and an opportunity for international link via music. The significance behind the ‘Sechaba’ in the headline – nation – is mirrored throughout the album as it develops in to the similar themes of unity as well as optimism.

The album was taped in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and at the family’s personal Dyertribe workshop along with engineer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a wonderful audio along with a rich audio as well as clear acoustics, evocative traditional SA jazz music audios. The cd additionally illustrates Bokani’s capability to include contemporary effects like the neo-soul setting along with his classic instruction, along with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway looking like vital impacts as traditional SA performers such as Oliver Mtukudzi and also Pat Metheny.

A strong feeling of spot penetrates the document along with the opening keep track of Ke Nako (‘ allow’s develop the nation, it is actually time’) sung in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was born as well as reared. The track is actually a contact us to activity and also includes visitor vocalist Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi and also the Natives.

The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those that have actually perished, a stunning duet along with Yonela Mnana’s spiritual shipping as well as traditional compatibilities. The document finishes with a funeral part gotten in touch with Medu which is actually written through Bokani and devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.

Ke Nako
A Sesotho word that implies “it’s time,” Ke Nako is an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a means that commemorates the continent’s humanity. The expression belongs to the official 2010 Globe Mug trademark as well as has actually also been embraced as the style of this particular year’s African Union Peak.

Dyer has actually worked together with South African theatre director Mkhululi Mabija on his production My Little girl/ Kid, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching cd Iyonde, and also curated the Jazzafrika Tradition Procedure, a show collection celebrating South Africa’s most popular jazz composers. He has likewise taped with the Bokani Dyer Triad and also looked like a visitor in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.

On top of that, he has actually conducted thoroughly internationally, featuring at the Jazzahead showcase in Bremen, Germany. He was actually likewise a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 as well as invested 3 full weeks in Nyc being coached through jazz pianist Jason Moran.

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