The Motswana-South African pianist Bokani dyer is a well-travelled musician who has actually explored the planet as well as gained a famous Pro Helvetia performer residency in Switzerland. His songs blends regional and also international impacts.

His standout contribution to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz compilation Indaba Is actually has actually been actually observed up through a complete workshop cd referred to as Planet Popular music. Along with 15 original keep tracks of, it shows his multi-dimensional effects.

Liberate The Story
After winning the Specification Bank Young Performer Honor in 2011 with his student cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a strong base with 2015’s varied World Songs and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his debut for Brownswood Recordings, the Motswana-South Black pianist, author as well as producer– who likewise composed as well as comprised the authentic for the 2023 film Recording Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– sought to further determine his creative velocity, checking out heritage while precipitating the contemporary yard of South Africa jazz. BOKANDIYER

The outcome is a deeply religious venture that reaches the breadth of the individual adventure, along with verses revealing a variety of thoughts and also suggestions. If any one track resonates most of all, it is actually the reflective Vibration of Truth, a request for self-liberation from people-pleasing and also a hunt for perfection.

Around 14 tracks that switch in personnel, Dyer collaborates along with a who’s who of South African talent featuring bass guitarists Keenan Ahrends as well as Reza Khota, vocalist Yonela Mnana, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Colleague Wells, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock and also drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko. Erykah Badu, Glen Lewis and Carl Thomas are actually among the bygone impacts whose cadences educate his own, while Moses Sumney and Jordan Rakei provide more present-day recommendations.

Planet Music
Having won the Standard Banking company Young Artist award for Jazz music in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 cd, Planet Music, is actually thick and also split. It combines veteran stars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, with fresh talent like performers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also appearances from around the entire world blend. Taking its own headline from a rhyme through Ntone Edjabe that pipes the file’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a proof to “songs without any borders”.

A prolific performer, Dyer has actually opened up for jazz singer Melanie Scholtz, and becomes part of gouge ensemble Spirit Housing Job. He has actually additionally explored the UK with his quintet, and also in 2016 signed up with South African jazz music singer Sisonke Xonti on her debut album Iyonde. Dyer additionally curates a regular slot at London’s Orbit Jazz club, the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure.

A Motswana-born pianist, author and also developer, his strategy to jazz combines elements of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, and also symphonic music. He analyzed in New york city along with US pianist Jason Moran and also has released 3 albums – including the vitally well-known Emancipate The Account, Oscillations, and a triad offering, Neo Native, which succeeded the 2019 SAMA for absolute best jazz music cd. In 2018, Dyer released a set of real-time concerts in South Africa got in touch with ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be actually adhered to through his 2nd workshop album Broadcast Sechaba in 2020.

Broadcast Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s new file, a double album titled Broadcast Sechaba, delivers an informal sight into South Africa’s diverse people as well as an option for international link through popular music. The definition responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the label – nation – is actually demonstrated throughout the cd as it develops into the relevant concepts of unity as well as positive outlook.

The cd was tape-recorded in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and at the family’s personal Dyertribe workshop with developer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a beautiful audio along with an affluent audio and very clear acoustics, evocative of old institution SA jazz recordings. The album also displays Bokani’s capacity to incorporate contemporary influences like the neo-soul scene with his classic instruction, with Erykah Badu and Donny Hathaway showing up as necessary impacts as conventional SA musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi and also Pat Metheny.

A tough local color goes through the record along with the opening monitor Ke Nako (‘ let’s develop the nation, it’s time’) sung in Setswana, the language of Botswana where Bokani was actually birthed and brought up. The song is actually a phone call to activity as well as features visitor singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi and also the Natives.

The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those who have passed away, a beautiful duet with Yonela Mnana’s aerial distribution as well as typical consistencies. The record finishes with a funeral piece contacted Medu which is composed through Bokani as well as devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa who passed away in 2021.

Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that means “it’s time,” Ke Nako is an ask for Africa to take the limelight in a technique that commemorates the continent’s humankind. The phrase is actually component of the official 2010 World Mug mantra as well as has actually additionally been actually embraced as the motif of this year’s African Union Top.

Dyer has teamed up along with South African theater supervisor Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Daughter/ Boy, produced saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s debut cd Iyonde, as well as curated the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions, a performance set commemorating South Africa’s most noticeable jazz music authors. He has actually also videotaped along with the Bokani Dyer Trio and looked like an attendee in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.

Additionally, he has actually done substantially worldwide, including at the Jazzahead feature in Bremen, Germany. He was likewise a second best in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competition in 2009 and also spent 3 full weeks in Nyc being actually tutored through jazz pianist Jason Moran.

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