Bokani dyer is a Motswana-born, award-winning pianist who has actually succeeded the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship as well as opened the Greater london Jazz music Event. He is likewise the leader of a triad with bassist Romy Brauteseth as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko.
Dyer’s popular music is a rich mix of effects and ideas. It fuses elements of a range of genres without ever before coming to be diverse or turbulent.
His Life
Bokani Dyer is actually a prize-winning pianist and also author who fuses traditional African rhythms with jazz music. His make-ups are defined by intricate blendings as well as soulful melodies which have spellbinded viewers around the globe. He has actually performed along with worldwide greats like Shabaka Hutchings and Jason Moran and nearby stalwarts such as Feya Faku, Shane Cooper, Sisonke Xonti as well as Colleague Wells. BOKANI DYER
Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Dyer developed up paying attention to the similarity Dab Metheny, Khadja Nin and also Oliver Mtukudzi, whose popular music was played in his family members home. As he got older, he joined the extreme multi-disciplinary fine arts cumulative Medu in Botswana where he executed and also generated films, staged gigs, mounted art exhibits as well as conducted creative workshops.
Complying With Medu, Dyer transferred to Johannesburg where he made a bachelor’s level in music from the Educational institution of Cape Town. In the course of his opportunity at the tertiary company, he created sustaining connections along with a host of performers that are right now collaborators along with him in one form or yet another consisting of bassist Shane Cooper as well as singer Sakhile Moleshe.
After accomplishing his researches, he introduced his very first self-released album in 2010, adhered to by Emancipate The Tale in 2011. In 2015, he recorded World Songs with a quintet including leading South African musicians consisting of tone saxophonist Feya Faku, pianist/composer Jonathan Jephta, drummer Friend Wells and bassist Shane Cooper. His trio cd Neo Indigenous was launched in 2019 as well as acquired a SAMA election for finest jazz music album. He likewise launched Kelenosi, a totally solo cd developed under astronomical problems in 2020.
His Music
The Motswana-South Black pianist and also composer Bokani dyer is a power to be considered in jazz music. Technically skillful past his years, he is likewise innovative and artistic in a range of jazz styles. His songs draws coming from an extensive stable of effects and also is actually originated in tradition while embracing modern concepts as well as probabilities.
The advertised multi-hyphenate’s most current launch is actually a comprehensive cd referred to as Globe Popular music, his 1st for the well-known Gilles Peterson imprint on Brownswood Records. The document complies with up student standout Emancipate the Tale, as well as improves it, incorporating a collection of wide influences to produce an anti-genre file with a specific identification of its very own.
Along with the album, he unites seasoned superstars like drummer Hassan Khan and also saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane, John Swanson and Robin Fassie-Kock, and also younger blood streams like trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu and also bassist Tendai Shoko. The end result is actually a hypnotic fusion of thought and stirring machinery.
In 2014, he was chosen for a Pro Helvetia financed musician residency in Switzerland where he complied with musicians Donat Fisch, Stephan Kurmann and also Norbert Pfammatter who joined him to create the Bokani Dyer Swiss Quintet. The set took place to play at the opening of the Greater london Jazz Festivity as well as visited South Africa with loaded display in Master William’s Community, Johannesburg as well as Maputo.
His Albums
For Bokani Dyer, a pianist and also composer, the popular music goes to the facility of his planet. He produces jazz music along with elements of digital, R&B, Afro-Latin as well as classical. His design is actually at as soon as inventive and also sophisticated, as positive as it pries.
He has actually already released five cds – his debut, Mirrors, in 2010, complied with through Emancipate the Account in 2013, Oscillations in 2014 and 2015’s Planet Songs (which was actually chosen for best jazz music cd at the South African Music Honors), and also a trio audio, Neo Native, which gained the honor in 2019.
The new file, Radio Sechaba, was actually issued on digital, compact disc and 12″ plastic layouts on the 12th of Might 2023 by Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label. The album concentrates on nation-building as well as oneness– themes that join his heart, provided his origins in a Botswanan community in expatriation from discrimination.
The 14-track offering attributes spiritual introspective moments, boosting energised grooves as well as a cutting-edge mix of music designs– stirring keys and vocals, jazz-funk and also Afrobeat collision, punchy horns as well as even more. Along with his very own having fun, he sponsored an all-star cast for the treatments, consisting of trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Steve Dyer, guitar players Alder du Toit and Keenan Ahrends, bassist Tendai Shoko as well as drummer Tinotenda Dambaneunga. 2 advance singles from the cd – Resonance of Fact along with its West African gouge as well as appeal to follow your reality, and Go on along with its contact us to relax and also inhale– prepared the tone for this wonderful file.
His Tours
Bokani Dyer is among South Africa’s the majority of well-known jazz music pianists, and also he routinely explores around the globe. His band features a hold of international and SA artists, consisting of bassist Shane Cooper, saxophonist Sisonke Xonti and singer Sakhile Moleshe. Having actually devoted his early years in Botswana, where he satisfied a lot of his present collaborators, it’s no unpleasant surprise that his popular music attracts motivation coming from an abundant as well as diverse ancestry.
After getting a degree coming from UCT, he joined pressures with drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko to form a triad which debuted at the 2016 SA National Arts Festival. The band likewise travelled Switzerland in 2015, participating in stuffed display in Basel, Zurich, Bern as well as Wintethur.
In the very same year, he was selected to do at the prestigious Jazzahead showcase in Bremen and also went on to create saxophonist Sisonke’s launching cd, Iyonde. He is actually also the producer of a normal port at The Orbit Jazz Music Club in Johannesburg, the Jazzafrika Legacy Sessions, which commemorates the job of reputable as well as arising SA jazz music composers.
The band is actually an awesome power to become reckoned along with on stage as well as the interplay in between them goes over. It is actually to Bokani’s credit rating that he may collaborate the ensemble so properly, but likewise provide room for private members to shine, as holds true when he opens his set with the ballad Vuvuzela or on the hard bop song Secret Details.
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