In Conversation With... Siya Mthembu (The Brother Moves On)

Filmed + Edited by Tseliso Monaheng

Featuring Bokani Dyer & Siya Mthembu

Listen to Radio Sechaba https://bokanidyer.lnk.to/RadioSechabaYT

How important is it for artists to reflect the times? Can artists make a difference? These are questions that award-winning artist Bokani Dyer asks in his new series, In Conversation With …

As he reveals in his first conversation with The Brother Moves On’s Siya Mthembu, the prompt for Bokani to engage in these short but illuminating conversations was watching a Nina Simone documentary where she said, “An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times”.

Bokani locates his conversations in Johannesburg, the city where he recorded his 2023 album Radio Sechaba, where a new wave of jazz artists is creating and performing and which was one of 12 cities featured in the 2023 Unesco International Jazz Day on April 30th, themed “jazz journey around the world”.

In Conversation With … with Siya Mthembu, who also performs as part of the acclaimed UK-based Shabaka And The Ancestors, is followed by a new conversation with Thandi Ntuli whose trio of studio albums, including 2022’s Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë, reveal an artist of depth and multiple gifts.