The Motswana-South Black pianist Bokani dyer is actually a well-travelled performer who has actually toured the globe and also won a prestigious Pro Helvetia musician residency in Switzerland. His popular music mixes local area and also international influences.

His standout contribution to Brownswood Recordings’ 2021 South Africa jazz music collection Indaba Is actually has been complied with up through a total center album called Globe Songs. Along with 15 initial tracks, it mirrors his multifaceted impacts.

Emancipate The Story
After gaining the Criterion Bank Youthful Musician Honor in 2011 with his sophomore cd Emancipate The Tale, Bokani Dyer developed a sound foundation along with 2015’s considerable Planet Popular music and also 2018’s trio-focused Neo Native. For his launching for Brownswood Audios, the Motswana-South African pianist, author and also developer– who likewise composed and also composed the initial for the 2023 movie Catching Emotions starring Kagiso Lediga– looked for to better specify his artistic path, checking out custom while precipitating the present-day landscape of South Africa jazz music. BOKANDIYER

The outcome is actually a greatly religious job that covers the breadth of the human experience, along with verses conveying a series of notions and also tips. If any one track resonates most importantly, it is actually the meditative Resonance of Honest truth, a request for self-liberation from people-pleasing as well as a hunt for transcendence.

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

Globe Popular music
Having actually won the Standard Bank Young Musician award for Jazz in 2010, Dyer’s 2015 album, World Songs, is dense and layered. It mixes experienced superstars like bassist Shane Cooper as well as drummer Marlon Witbooi, along with new talent like singers Lee-Anne Fortuin as well as Sakhile Moleshe. Rhythms and also appearances coming from around the entire world blend. Taking its label coming from a poem by Ntone Edjabe that pipes the file’s compact disc sleeve, the cd is a proof to “music with no borderlines”.

A respected performer, Dyer has opened up for jazz music singer Melanie Scholtz, and is actually part of groove clothing Soul Property Task. He has actually likewise explored the UK along with his quintet, and in 2016 joined South African jazz music vocalist Sisonke Xonti on her launching album Iyonde. Dyer also curates a regular slot at Greater london’s Orbit Jazz nightclub, the Jazzafrika Heritage Procedure.

A Motswana-born pianist, author as well as manufacturer, his technique to jazz music incorporates aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin, as well as classical music. He analyzed in The big apple along with US pianist Jason Moran and has actually released three cds – featuring the vitally well-known Emancipate The Tale, Oscillations, and a trio offering, Neo Native, which won the 2019 SAMA for best jazz album. In 2018, Dyer released a series of real-time performances in South Africa phoned ‘Dyer Unplugged’, which are going to be complied with through his second workshop cd Radio Sechaba in 2020.

Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer’s brand new report, a double cd titled Broadcast Sechaba, offers an informal view right into South Africa’s diverse folks and a chance for international connection by means of popular music. The significance responsible for the ‘Sechaba’ in the title – country – is mirrored throughout the cd as it refines into the relevant motifs of uniformity and optimism.

The cd was actually documented in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and at the household’s very own Dyertribe workshop along with designer Tashepo Mothwa. It is actually a stunning audio along with a rich audio and also crystal clear acoustics, reminiscent of traditional SA jazz music audios. The album likewise displays Bokani’s capability to combine contemporary influences like the neo-soul setting along with his timeless instruction, along with Erykah Badu and also Donny Hathaway seeming like necessary influences as typical SA artists like Oliver Mtukudzi and Dab Metheny.

A solid local color penetrates the record along with the position track Ke Nako (‘ let’s create the nation, it’s time’) vocalized in Setswana, the foreign language of Botswana where Bokani was born and increased. The song is actually a phone call to activity and also features attendee singer Tomeletso Sereetsi coming from the band Sereetsi as well as the Citizens.

The haunting ballad Ho Tla Loka is actually a lament for those that have passed away, a lovely duet with Yonela Mnana’s angelic delivery and standard harmonies. The file finishes with a funeral piece contacted Medu which is actually written by Bokani and also devoted to trombonist Jonas Gwangwa that passed away in 2021.

Ke Nako
A Sesotho term that suggests “it is actually time,” Ke Nako is a require Africa to take the spotlight in a means that commemorates the continent’s humankind. The phrase is actually part of the formal 2010 Globe Mug trademark and also has likewise been actually embraced as the concept of the year’s African Union Summit.

Dyer has actually worked together along with South African theater director Mkhululi Mabija on his creation My Child/ Boy, generated saxophonist Sisonke Xonti’s launching album Iyonde, and curated the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions, a gig set commemorating South Africa’s most popular jazz composers. He has actually also taped along with the Bokani Dyer Trio and also showed up as a guest in the quintet of famous trumpeter Feya Faku.

On top of that, he has conducted substantially globally, including at the Jazzahead display in Bremen, Germany. He was additionally a runner-up in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship competitors in 2009 and devoted 3 weeks in New york city being actually tutored by jazz music pianist Jason Moran.

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