Bokani dyer is a Motswana-born, prize-winning pianist that has actually won the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship and also opened up the Greater london Jazz Festivity. He is also the forerunner of a trio along with bassist Romy Brauteseth as well as drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko.
Dyer’s songs is actually an abundant mix of impacts and also ideas. It fuses components of a range of styles without ever becoming eclectic or even chaotic.
His Lifestyle
Bokani Dyer is an award-winning pianist as well as author who integrates conventional African rhythms with jazz. His structures are actually identified through elaborate tunes and also moving tunes which have mesmerized audiences around the globe. He has actually executed along with global greats like Shabaka Hutchings and Jason Moran and also local area stalwarts such as Feya Faku, Shane Cooper, Sisonke Xonti as well as Friend Wells. BOKANI DYER
Birthed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Dyer matured listening to the likes of Dab Metheny, Khadja Nin and Oliver Mtukudzi, whose songs was actually played in his family home. As he developed older, he participated in the radical multi-disciplinary arts aggregate Medu in Botswana where he performed and also created movies, staged concerts, positioned art exhibits and also performed artistic workshops.
Complying With Medu, Dyer moved to Johannesburg where he gained an undergraduate’s level in music coming from the University of Peninsula City. Throughout his time at the tertiary institution, he developed sustaining links with a hold of artists who are right now collaborators with him in one kind or even yet another featuring bassist Shane Cooper and singer Sakhile Moleshe.
After accomplishing his research studies, he launched his 1st self-released album in 2010, followed by Emancipate The Account in 2011. In 2015, he captured Planet Music with a quintet including leading South African musicians including tenor saxophonist Feya Faku, pianist/composer Jonathan Jephta, drummer Pal Wells and also bassist Shane Cooper. His trio album Neo Indigenous was released in 2019 as well as acquired a SAMA nomination for absolute best jazz music cd. He additionally released Kelenosi, an entirely solo cd produced under global ailments in 2020.
His Popular music
The Motswana-South Black pianist as well as composer Bokani dyer is a pressure to be reckoned with in jazz music. Technically knowledgeable past his years, he is additionally innovative and also imaginative in a wide array of jazz genres. His songs attracts coming from an extensive variation of influences and is embeded in tradition while accepting present-day concepts as well as options.
The advertised multi-hyphenate’s most recent launch is a considerable cd referred to as Planet Popular music, his 1st for the distinguished Gilles Peterson imprint on Brownswood Records. The document observes up student standout Liberate the Tale, and also improves it, integrating a collection of broad influences to develop an anti-genre report with a distinctive identification of its own.
Along with the album, he takes with each other veteran celebrities like drummer Hassan Khan and also saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane, John Swanson and also Robin Fassie-Kock, and also much younger blood streams such as trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu and also bassist Tendai Shoko. The result is actually a hypnotic combination of notion and soulful instrumentation.
In 2014, he was actually picked for a Pro Helvetia moneyed performer post degree residency in Switzerland where he met performers Donat Fisch, Stephan Kurmann and also Norbert Pfammatter who joined him to form the Bokani Dyer Swiss Quintet. The set went on to dip into the position of the London Jazz Festivity and also visited South Africa with jam-packed receive King William’s Community, Johannesburg as well as Maputo.
His Cds
For Bokani Dyer, a pianist and also author, the songs goes to the center of his globe. He produces jazz popular music along with aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin and classic. His style goes to as soon as innovative and also stylish, as affirmative as it is inquisitive.
He has presently discharged 5 cds – his debut, Mirrors, in 2010, complied with by Emancipate the Story in 2013, Oscillations in 2014 as well as 2015’s Globe Songs (which was nominated for greatest jazz music cd at the South African Music Honors), as well as a triad recording, Neo Indigenous, which won the honor in 2019.
The new record, Radio Sechaba, was actually given out on digital, CD and also 12″ vinyl layouts on the 12th of Might 2023 by Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label. The cd focuses on nation-building and also uniformity– styles that join his heart, given his roots in a Botswanan area in exile coming from apartheid.
The 14-track offering features metaphysical contemplative seconds, improving energetic grooves and also an ingenious mix of music designs– moving keys as well as vocals, jazz-funk and Afrobeat collision, punchy horns and additional. Besides his personal playing, he recruited an all-star cast for the sessions, consisting of trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and Steve Dyer, guitarists Alder du Toit as well as Keenan Ahrends, bassist Tendai Shoko as well as drummer Tinotenda Dambaneunga. Two breakthrough songs from the album – Resonance of Reality along with its own West African canal and also petition to follow your truth, and also Move On along with its own contact us to relax and also breathe– prepared the tone for this superb document.
His Tours
Bokani Dyer is just one of South Africa’s a lot of well-known jazz music pianists, and also he consistently visits worldwide. His band includes a hold of international as well as SA artists, featuring bassist Shane Cooper, saxophonist Sisonke Xonti and also vocalist Sakhile Moleshe. Having actually invested his early years in Botswana, where he satisfied a variety of his current partners, it’s no unpleasant surprise that his music attracts inspiration coming from an abundant and also unique ancestry.
After earning a degree from UCT, he joined powers with drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko to form a triad which debuted at the 2016 SA National Arts Festival. The band likewise explored Switzerland in 2015, participating in packed display in Basel, Zurich, Bern and also Wintethur.
In the very same year, he was actually picked to perform at the respected Jazzahead display in Bremen and also went on to produce saxophonist Sisonke’s launching album, Iyonde. He is actually additionally the designer of a regular port at The Orbit Jazz Music Nightclub in Johannesburg, the Jazzafrika Tradition Sessions, which celebrates the work of well-known and arising SA jazz composers.
The band is a powerful power to be reckoned with on stage and also the interplay in between all of them goes over. It is actually to Bokani’s credit scores that he can easily work with the ensemble therefore properly, but also give space for private members to beam, as holds true when he opens his collection with the ballad Vuvuzela or even on the challenging bop tune Trick Details.