Bokani Dyer Trio 'Neo Native' Album Launch
Sat May 5, 19:30 - Sat May 5, 22:30
The Nassau Centre, Groote Schuur High School
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Multi-award-winning composer and pianist Bokani Dyer launches his fourth studio album, Neo Native, an intimate, inviting listening experience and a reimagination of the sound of the standard piano trio.
The 14-track album features new material as well as reimagined works from previous albums Emancipate the Story (2011) and World Music (2015).
“Neo Native is an idea about identity. How one chooses to identify and a question of what a person feels connected to as native. In the human experience beyond geography, where does the feeling of home reside?” says Dyer.
Dyer has been a leading voice in the new wave of young contemporary jazz musicians in South Africa in recent times. In 2009, he won a scholarship for further study in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition, in 2011, he was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz, and in 2013, he returned and managed to clinch first place in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition.
As part of the album launch tour, The Bokani Dyer trio performs at the Nassau Theatre (Groote Schuur High School) on the 5th of May in Cape Town.
Bokani Dyer - piano
Sphelelo Mazibuko - drums
Benjamin Jephta - bass
The 14-track album features new material as well as reimagined works from previous albums Emancipate the Story (2011) and World Music (2015).
“Neo Native is an idea about identity. How one chooses to identify and a question of what a person feels connected to as native. In the human experience beyond geography, where does the feeling of home reside?” says Dyer.
Dyer has been a leading voice in the new wave of young contemporary jazz musicians in South Africa in recent times. In 2009, he won a scholarship for further study in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition, in 2011, he was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz, and in 2013, he returned and managed to clinch first place in the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition.
As part of the album launch tour, The Bokani Dyer trio performs at the Nassau Theatre (Groote Schuur High School) on the 5th of May in Cape Town.
Bokani Dyer - piano
Sphelelo Mazibuko - drums
Benjamin Jephta - bass
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Bokani Dyer Trio 'Neo Native' Album Launch
The Nassau Centre, Groote Schuur High School
77 Palmyra Rd, Newlands, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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