Spheres by Shane Cooper featuring Bokani Dyer and Outeniqua

This is the lead single from an upcoming concept album called Hemispheres (due out 2025) which was a project I started creating during an artistic residency at the University of Johannesburg in 2023. This song features Bokani Dyer on an upright piano solo, myself on double bass, electric guitar, piano, drum programming and synthesizers; with manipulated and re-sampled recordings of Simon Manana on flute, and ride cymbals by Ayanda Sikade. ... Outeniqua is a new alias of mine for my electronic music work (more releases under this name are due in 2025).

"Unofficially beginning Dezemba for all music heads and setting the tone for the summer to come, Shane Cooper brings us his new single, Spheres, featuring Brownswood artist Bokani Dyer. With Cooper in the engine room – on double bass, guitar, piano, synthesizers and percussion – the track is reminiscent of a time when the cool intensity of house music ran summers across the globe.
Through intentionally crafted layers of sonic imagery and aesthetics, Cooper’s grasp of energy is unmistakable and soul-snatching. And his voodoo is made all-the-more-captivating by Dyer’s alluring
piano solo which is simultaneously rhythmic, lyrical and melodic – exhibiting the sheer vastness of his vocabulary and the many ways he can move and shape sonic language to his will. With electronic
and acoustic sounds that blur worlds; melodies and phrasings that evoke Latin American and African incantations; and a groove that can only come from the belly of the earth, Spheres displays the
timelessness of the duo’s ears and reminds us that genre is a lie.
It’s the beginning of cocktail-hour on a street that’s about to make some secrets, an island jaunt in the past that should never have to end, the club at peak thickness when the DJ dare not touch a thing."
- Sibongakonke Mama 2024.


Label: Kujua Records

Shane Cooper is a South African bassist, guitarist, composer and producer. Based in Johannesburg,
he is one of the artists pushing the sound of South African music forward. Checkout his sextet MABUTA, here https://mabuta.bandcamp.com/. .. Shane has also worked with artists like Thandi Ntuli, Bokani Dyer, Kyle Shepherd, Shabaka, Makaya McCraven, and more.
More info:
www.shanecoopermusic.com

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