Bokani dyer is a Motswana-born, acclaimed pianist that has gained the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship and also opened the London Jazz music Festival. He is additionally the leader of a trio with bassist Romy Brauteseth and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko.
Dyer’s music is a rich mix of effects and also ideas. It merges aspects of an assortment of styles without ever coming to be diverse or even turbulent.
His Lifestyle
Bokani Dyer is actually an award-winning pianist as well as author that merges traditional African rhythms along with jazz music. His compositions are defined by complex tunes and also soulful melodies which have actually captivated audiences around the planet. He has carried out along with global greats like Shabaka Hutchings as well as Jason Moran and also local stalwarts such as Feya Faku, Shane Cooper, Sisonke Xonti and also Pal Wells. BOKANDIYER
Birthed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Dyer matured listening to the likes of Dab Metheny, Khadja Nin and also Oliver Mtukudzi, whose music was actually played in his family home. As he aged, he participated in the revolutionary multi-disciplinary crafts collective Medu in Botswana where he executed as well as generated films, presented concerts, installed craft events and administered artistic sessions.
Complying With Medu, Dyer transferred to Johannesburg where he made a bachelor’s level in music from the Educational institution of Cape City. During the course of his opportunity at the tertiary company, he formed enduring relationships with a range of performers who are right now partners with him in one form or an additional including bassist Shane Cooper and singer Sakhile Moleshe.
After finishing his research studies, he launched his initial self-released cd in 2010, followed through Emancipate The Story in 2011. In 2015, he captured Globe Music along with a quintet including top South African performers featuring tenor saxophonist Feya Faku, pianist/composer Jonathan Jephta, drummer Pal Wells and bassist Shane Cooper. His trio album Neo Native was actually launched in 2019 as well as got a SAMA election for best jazz music album. He also released Kelenosi, a completely single cd created under widespread ailments in 2020.
His Songs
The Motswana-South African pianist and also composer Bokani dyer is a power to be considered in jazz. Technically trained beyond his years, he is additionally inventive and also artistic in a range of jazz styles. His popular music reasons a vast series of impacts and is actually originated in heritage while taking advantage of present-day ideas as well as possibilities.
The declared multi-hyphenate’s most current launch is an extensive album named Planet Popular music, his initial for the popular Gilles Peterson print on Brownswood Records. The document complies with up sophomore standout Emancipate the Tale, and improves it, combining a collection of vast influences to make an anti-genre file with a distinct identification of its own.
With the cd, he combines professional celebrities like drummer Hassan Khan as well as saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane, John Swanson and Robin Fassie-Kock, as well as younger bloods including trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu and also bassist Tendai Shoko. The result is actually a hypnotic fusion of notion and soulful machinery.
In 2014, he was decided on for a Pro Helvetia moneyed musician post degree residency in Switzerland where he satisfied entertainers Donat Fisch, Stephan Kurmann and Norbert Pfammatter who joined him to create the Bokani Dyer Swiss Quintet. The set took place to participate in at the position of the Greater london Jazz music Celebration and toured South Africa along with loaded shows in Master William’s Community, Johannesburg as well as Maputo.
His Albums
For Bokani Dyer, a pianist as well as composer, the music goes to the facility of his world. He makes jazz music with components of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin and also elegant. His design goes to the moment ingenious as well as stylish, as positive as it pries.
He has actually discharged 5 cds – his debut, Mirrors, in 2010, followed through Emancipate the Tale in 2013, Oscillations in 2014 and 2015’s Globe Songs (which was nominated for absolute best jazz music album at the South African Music Awards), and also a triad recording, Neo Indigenous, which gained the award in 2019.
The brand new document, Radio Sechaba, was actually given out on electronic, compact disc as well as 12″ vinyl layouts on the 12th of Might 2023 through Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings tag. The album pays attention to nation-building as well as unity– styles that are close to his heart, given his origins in a Botswanan neighborhood in exile coming from apartheid.
The 14-track offering features spiritual reflective instants, boosting lively canals and an innovative mix of musical styles– stirring secrets as well as vocals, jazz-funk and also Afrobeat percussion, punchy horns and even more. Aside from his personal playing, he employed an all-star cast for the sessions, featuring trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane as well as Steve Dyer, guitarists Alder du Toit and Keenan Ahrends, bassist Tendai Shoko and drummer Tinotenda Dambaneunga. Pair of advance singles coming from the cd – Resonance of Honest Truth with its own West African groove as well as petition to observe your fact, and Carry on with its phone call to chill out and take a breath– set the tone for this excellent file.
His Tours
Bokani Dyer is just one of South Africa’s the majority of acclaimed jazz pianists, and also he on a regular basis tours around the globe. His band includes a host of worldwide as well as SA musicians, including bassist Shane Cooper, saxophonist Sisonke Xonti and also vocalist Sakhile Moleshe. Having spent his early years in Botswana, where he complied with a lot of his present partners, it is actually no surprise that his music pulls ideas coming from a rich as well as diverse culture.
After graduating from UCT, he joined forces along with drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko to develop a triad which debuted at the 2016 SA National Arts Festival. The band additionally visited Switzerland in 2015, playing crammed programs in Basel, Zurich, Bern and also Wintethur.
In the exact same year, he was actually selected to do at the prominent Jazzahead exhibit in Bremen and also went on to make saxophonist Sisonke’s launching album, Iyonde. He is actually additionally the designer of a frequent port at The Orbit Jazz Music Nightclub in Johannesburg, the Jazzafrika Legacy Procedure, which celebrates the job of well established and also emerging SA jazz authors.
The band is actually an impressive force to become assumed along with on phase as well as the interaction between all of them goes over. It is actually to Bokani’s credit rating that he can team up the ensemble thus well, yet additionally provide space for individual participants to beam, as holds true when he opens his set along with the ballad Vuvuzela or even on the difficult bop song Key Details.