Dyko

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Dyko
Dyko at the UMSL (2008)
Dyko at the UMSL (2008)
General information
Genre (s) Electro-pop, new wave
founding 2003
Website dyko.de
Founding members
John Barrie Dyke, Christofer Jost

Dyko is an electronica / synthpop band that was founded in 2003 in Frankfurt am Main . The head of the band is the native Australian John Barrie Dyke.

history

The Australian artist John Barrie Dyke grew up in Melbourne , but has lived in Germany since the early 1990s, now in Berlin. Dyko was founded in 2003. The music and the visuals used in the performances are created in close collaboration with the German Christofer Jost.

Dyko have been touring regularly since their founding and have performed in more than 40 countries, including Club B2 in Moscow , Club 103 and Club Maria in Berlin , the Rote Fabrik in Zurich and the Exit Festival in Serbia as well as in the framework of the Initiative Germany - Land of Ideas at the German-Chinese POP Festival in Nanjing , where they worked with German bands such as Juli , 2raumwohnung , Tele and MIA. stood on the stage.

Dyko's music reflects John Barrie Dyke's particular passion for everyday German culture and language. That is why the Goethe-Institut has been promoting the band since 2007 with more than 30 appearances with up to 10,000 listeners and uses Dyko worldwide as a kind of cultural ambassador for Germany. Concerts under the auspices of the Goethe Institute took place in Toronto, Estonia and Poland, among others. The dissemination of German as a foreign language should also be supported, for example through an appearance at the “Languages ​​Without Borders” conference of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) in Edmonton, Canada. The release party for the single okay took place on August 28, 2009 at the Goethe-Institut in New York .

The red fitter-like suits are an integral part of the performances, because Dyko's working method is based on the Bauhaus concept of “designer as technician” and is dedicated to electro-pop and new wave of the 1970s and 80s. Bands like Kraftwerk , Nina Hagen , Ideal , Trio and David Bowie especially influence the work of the band.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anne-Katrin Schade: John Barrie Dyke - The German musician from Australia . In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" from August 14, 2009.
  2. ↑ Germany and China - Pop Festival ( Memento from February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the German-Chinese event series. (Retrieved January 25, 2010.)
  3. ↑ Carl Conway: Dyko spreading the cultural love: German electro-pop group performs on campus . In “UWO Gazette”, November 2008. Available online on the Goethe-Institut website. (Retrieved December 21, 2009.)
  4. ↑ Sarah Dubroy: Interview with John Barrie Dyke ( Memento of 7 February 2009 at the Internet Archive ) . In: "Refléxions - Canadian second language magazine" of October 27, 2009.
  5. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: So many great words . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of August 26, 2009.