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Radio Sechaba is the seventh album and Brownswood debut from South African singer, composer, pianist, and producer Bokani Dyer. Though well-known at home, most listeners encountered his music with "Ke Nako," the opening cut from Indaba Is, Brownswood's excellent 2022 overview of South Africa's music scene.
Radio Sechaba ("sechaba" translates as "nation") weaves together virtually all of Dyer's influences: post-bop and funky jazz, gospel, township jive and jazz, funk, Latin, and soul. It was recorded at the family's Dyertribe studio in Johannesburg with a cast that included his father, saxophonist Steve Dyer. The younger Dyer produced, recorded, and mixed the album with Tashepo Mothwa. Radio Sechaba reveals how encyclopedic Dyer's knowledge of African jazz, funk, soul, and R&B is, and how these sounds intersect with other traditions. Dyer's songs directly address nation building, community, accountability, the demand for self-determination and freedom, both individual and collective.
The opening duet number, "Be Where You Are," is a ballad with layered vocal harmonies swooping and cascading across a minimal melody and colorful guitar vamps from Aldert Du Toit. It almost floats. "Mogaetsho" is built on a funky but foreboding bassline from Tendai Shoko. Dyer's Afro-Latin-tinged electric piano chords frame vamping guitars and layered trumpets. Dyer stacks his vocals and offers them in contrasting styles: chants, syncopated jazz, and call-and-response. Where "Mogaetsho" wed funk and Afro-Latin grooves, "Move On" directly engages Nigerian Afrobeat to frame his sophisticated soul singing. The interplay between Tinotenda Dambaneunga's drums, Shoko's roiling electric bass, and Dyer's keys is canny. Keenan Ahrends' guitar and Sthembiso's trumpet add color and depth to the sultry, affirmative melody. American rapper Damani Nkosi assists on the strident nocturnal manifesto "State of the Nation," with gorgeous modal dialogue between saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and the bandleader. Gaborone's jazz-funk heroes Sereetsi & the Natives back Dyer on the bubbling Afro-soul in single "Ke Nako." The interplay between the leader's electric piano, hand percussion, and Sereetsi's bumping electric guitar is infectious. All-star bassist Ikechi Amaeshi guests on "Spirit People," a silvery, warm, jazz-funk groover with the entire band chanting behind. "Victims of Circumstance" is killer modal soul-jazz. Playing piano, Dyer's sumptuous lead vocals are appended by backing vocal support from Keorapetse Kolwane. Sikhakhane's solo is knotty, lean, and true. "Amelogang" is another vocal number where Dyer fronts a quintet playing a swinging melody atop syncopated rhythms and symbiotic exchanges between saxophonists Steve Dyer and Mthunzi Mvubu (whose 1st Gospel debut album was released on the same day as Radio Sechaba). The roiling dubwise Afrobeat in "Resonance of Truth" is an anthem of self-determination as Dyer's grainy tenor vocals recall a young Bob Marley's. Closer "Medu" is an instrumental; Dyer composed it but does not appear. With his dad and Sikhakhane on saxes, special guest Sthembiso Bhengu on trumpet, and Amaeshi on bass, it perfectly melds historic township jazz, South African gospel, and New Orleans street band music. Radio Sechaba offers Dyer's sophisticated yet always welcoming musical evolution, with kaleidoscopic vision and authoritative achievement.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Aldert Du Toit, Guitar
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Shane Cooper, Guitar - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Tendai Shoko, Bass - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Tinotenda Dambaneunga, Drums
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Tendai Shoko, Bass - Keenan Ahrends, Guitar - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Tinotenda Dambaneunga, Drums
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Damani Nkosi, Composer, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Lwanda Gogwana, Trumpet - Gontse Makhene, Percussion - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Tendai Shoko, Bass - Reza Khota, Guitar - Tomeletso Sereetsi, Composer - Tinotenda Dambaneunga, Drums - Sibusisiwe Dyer, Vocals
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Tlale Makhene, Percussion - Lwanda Gogwana, Trumpet - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Tendai Shoko, Bass - Keenan Ahrends, Guitar - Keorapetse Kolwane, Vocals - Ndabo Zulu, Trumpet - Tomeletso Sereetsi, Composer - Sereetsi and the Natives, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Tinotenda Dambaneunga, Drums
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, MainArtist - Keorapetse Kolwane, Vocals - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Steve Dyer, Saxophone - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass, FeaturedArtist
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Steve Dyer, Saxophone - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Saxophone - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Tomeletso Sereetsi, Composer - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Yonela Mnana, Composer, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Sphelelo Mazibuko, Drums - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Julio Sigauque, Guitar - Leagan Breda, Drums - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Benjamin Jephta, Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Shane Cooper, Guitar - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Tendai Shoko, Bass - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet - Tinotenda Dambaneunga, Drums
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Steve Dyer, Saxophone - Bokani Dyer, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist - Sthembiso Bhengu, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist - Linda Sikhakhane, Saxophone - Amaeshi Ikechi, Double Bass
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
Albumbeschreibung
Radio Sechaba is the seventh album and Brownswood debut from South African singer, composer, pianist, and producer Bokani Dyer. Though well-known at home, most listeners encountered his music with "Ke Nako," the opening cut from Indaba Is, Brownswood's excellent 2022 overview of South Africa's music scene.
Radio Sechaba ("sechaba" translates as "nation") weaves together virtually all of Dyer's influences: post-bop and funky jazz, gospel, township jive and jazz, funk, Latin, and soul. It was recorded at the family's Dyertribe studio in Johannesburg with a cast that included his father, saxophonist Steve Dyer. The younger Dyer produced, recorded, and mixed the album with Tashepo Mothwa. Radio Sechaba reveals how encyclopedic Dyer's knowledge of African jazz, funk, soul, and R&B is, and how these sounds intersect with other traditions. Dyer's songs directly address nation building, community, accountability, the demand for self-determination and freedom, both individual and collective.
The opening duet number, "Be Where You Are," is a ballad with layered vocal harmonies swooping and cascading across a minimal melody and colorful guitar vamps from Aldert Du Toit. It almost floats. "Mogaetsho" is built on a funky but foreboding bassline from Tendai Shoko. Dyer's Afro-Latin-tinged electric piano chords frame vamping guitars and layered trumpets. Dyer stacks his vocals and offers them in contrasting styles: chants, syncopated jazz, and call-and-response. Where "Mogaetsho" wed funk and Afro-Latin grooves, "Move On" directly engages Nigerian Afrobeat to frame his sophisticated soul singing. The interplay between Tinotenda Dambaneunga's drums, Shoko's roiling electric bass, and Dyer's keys is canny. Keenan Ahrends' guitar and Sthembiso's trumpet add color and depth to the sultry, affirmative melody. American rapper Damani Nkosi assists on the strident nocturnal manifesto "State of the Nation," with gorgeous modal dialogue between saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and the bandleader. Gaborone's jazz-funk heroes Sereetsi & the Natives back Dyer on the bubbling Afro-soul in single "Ke Nako." The interplay between the leader's electric piano, hand percussion, and Sereetsi's bumping electric guitar is infectious. All-star bassist Ikechi Amaeshi guests on "Spirit People," a silvery, warm, jazz-funk groover with the entire band chanting behind. "Victims of Circumstance" is killer modal soul-jazz. Playing piano, Dyer's sumptuous lead vocals are appended by backing vocal support from Keorapetse Kolwane. Sikhakhane's solo is knotty, lean, and true. "Amelogang" is another vocal number where Dyer fronts a quintet playing a swinging melody atop syncopated rhythms and symbiotic exchanges between saxophonists Steve Dyer and Mthunzi Mvubu (whose 1st Gospel debut album was released on the same day as Radio Sechaba). The roiling dubwise Afrobeat in "Resonance of Truth" is an anthem of self-determination as Dyer's grainy tenor vocals recall a young Bob Marley's. Closer "Medu" is an instrumental; Dyer composed it but does not appear. With his dad and Sikhakhane on saxes, special guest Sthembiso Bhengu on trumpet, and Amaeshi on bass, it perfectly melds historic township jazz, South African gospel, and New Orleans street band music. Radio Sechaba offers Dyer's sophisticated yet always welcoming musical evolution, with kaleidoscopic vision and authoritative achievement.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:30
- Main artists: Bokani Dyer
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Brownswood Recordings
- Genre: Jazz
2023 Brownswood Recordings 2023 Brownswood Recordings
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