Bokani dyer is a Motswana-born, prize-winning pianist who has actually gained the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship and also opened up the Greater london Jazz music Celebration. He is actually additionally the innovator of a triad with bassist Romy Brauteseth and drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko.
Dyer’s songs is actually a wealthy mix of impacts and ideas. It merges components of a variety of genres without ever coming to be diverse or even chaotic.
His Life
Bokani Dyer is actually an acclaimed pianist and also author who merges typical African rhythms along with jazz music. His compositions are identified by elaborate blendings as well as stirring melodies which have actually captivated viewers around the globe. He has actually conducted with international greats like Shabaka Hutchings as well as Jason Moran and regional stalwarts including Feya Faku, Shane Cooper, Sisonke Xonti and also Buddy Wells. BOKANDIYER
Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Dyer expanded up paying attention to the similarity Dab Metheny, Khadja Nin and Oliver Mtukudzi, whose music was played in his loved ones home. As he aged, he signed up with the revolutionary multi-disciplinary arts collective Medu in Botswana where he performed and also produced films, staged shows, installed craft exhibits as well as administered innovative sessions.
Adhering To Medu, Dyer moved to Johannesburg where he gained a bachelor’s level in music coming from the College of Cape Town. During his time at the tertiary company, he developed enduring relationships along with a host of performers who are today partners with him in one form or even yet another consisting of bassist Shane Cooper and also singer Sakhile Moleshe.
After accomplishing his studies, he launched his initial self-released cd in 2010, observed by Emancipate The Tale in 2011. In 2015, he taped World Music with a quintet featuring best South African performers including tone saxophonist Feya Faku, pianist/composer Jonathan Jephta, drummer Pal Wells and also bassist Shane Cooper. His trio cd Neo Indigenous was actually launched in 2019 and got a SAMA nomination for best jazz cd. He additionally discharged Kelenosi, a totally solo album produced under widespread ailments in 2020.
His Popular music
The Motswana-South Black pianist and also author Bokani dyer is actually a power to become considered in jazz. Technically skillful past his years, he is additionally imaginative and also imaginative in a range of jazz categories. His popular music pulls coming from a wide variety of effects and is actually originated in heritage while accepting modern suggestions and also probabilities.
The trumpeted multi-hyphenate’s most up-to-date release is a considerable cd referred to as Planet Songs, his first for the renowned Gilles Peterson trace on Brownswood Records. The report complies with up sophomore standout Emancipate the Story, and also improves it, integrating a set of wide impacts to produce an anti-genre record with a specific identification of its own.
With the album, he unites veteran superstars like drummer Hassan Khan and also saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane, John Swanson as well as Robin Fassie-Kock, in addition to younger blood streams including trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu as well as bassist Tendai Shoko. The end result is a hypnotic blend of idea as well as stirring machinery.
In 2014, he was decided on for a Pro Helvetia funded artist residency in Switzerland where he complied with performers Donat Fisch, Stephan Kurmann as well as Norbert Pfammatter who joined him to create the Bokani Dyer Swiss Quintet. The ensemble happened to dip into the position of the London Jazz Event as well as toured South Africa with crammed display in King William’s Community, Johannesburg and Maputo.
His Albums
For Bokani Dyer, a pianist and composer, the music is actually at the center of his globe. He makes jazz music with aspects of electronic, R&B, Afro-Latin as well as elegant. His style is actually at once inventive and also exquisite, as affirmative as it pries.
He has actually currently discharged 5 albums – his launching, Mirrors, in 2010, followed by Emancipate the Tale in 2013, Oscillations in 2014 as well as 2015’s World Popular music (which was actually nominated for finest jazz music album at the South Black Songs Honors), as well as a trio recording, Neo Native, which gained the award in 2019.
The new record, Radio Sechaba, was released on electronic, CD as well as 12″ vinyl styles on the 12th of Might 2023 by Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings tag. The album pays attention to nation-building and uniformity– themes that are actually close to his heart, provided his roots in a Botswanan community in exile from discrimination.
The 14-track offering functions metaphysical meditative instants, improving energetic canals and also a cutting-edge mix of music styles– soulful secrets and vocals, jazz-funk as well as Afrobeat collision, punchy horns and even more. Besides his personal playing, he employed an all-star hue for the sessions, consisting of trumpeter Sthembiso Bhengu, saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane and also Steve Dyer, guitar players Alder du Toit and also Keenan Ahrends, bassist Tendai Shoko as well as drummer Tinotenda Dambaneunga. Two development singles coming from the cd – Resonance of Reality with its West African gouge as well as appeal to follow your reality, and also Go on with its own phone call to take it easy and also breathe– specified the tone for this fantastic file.
His Tours
Bokani Dyer is among South Africa’s many well-known jazz pianists, and also he routinely travels around the globe. Atrioventricular bundle features a host of international and SA musicians, consisting of bassist Shane Cooper, saxophonist Sisonke Xonti and also singer Sakhile Moleshe. Having spent his very early years in Botswana, where he satisfied an amount of his existing partners, it is actually no surprise that his popular music attracts ideas coming from an abundant and also unique ancestry.
After finishing from UCT, he participated in powers along with drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko to form a trio which debuted at the 2016 SA National Arts Festival. The band likewise travelled Switzerland in 2015, playing jam-packed series in Basel, Zurich, Bern and Wintethur.
In the very same year, he was actually decided on to carry out at the distinguished Jazzahead showcase in Bremen and went on to make saxophonist Sisonke’s debut album, Iyonde. He is actually likewise the developer of a regular port at The Track Jazz Nightclub in Johannesburg, the Jazzafrika Heritage Sessions, which celebrates the job of well established as well as surfacing SA jazz music authors.
The band is a powerful pressure to become surmised with on phase and the interaction in between all of them is actually outstanding. It is actually to Bokani’s credit that he can easily collaborate the ensemble thus properly, however likewise provide room for specific members to sparkle, as holds true when he opens his collection along with the ballad Vuvuzela or on the difficult bop tune Secret Notes.