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SUSANNA LINDEBORG'S MWENDO DAWA is always an adventure listening to. They were a bit of pioneers when the group was formed in the 70th when it came to combining expression of Jazz and traditional instruments together with the possibilities given by new instruments of the time. And they still are. Apart from most others fascinated by the same possibilities at the time. Musically MWENDO DAWA is now working with improvisation in serial technique with electro acoustical backgrounds but with a strong rythmical approach. The group is still now, 30 years later, as much pioneers as ever before. MWENDO DAWA is updated on all frontiers, the musical vision is still there but has changed and grown not only together with technological progress. The question rises if not MWENDO DAWA is better than ever before. MWENDO DAWA has since the start been succesfully touring in 26 countries in Europe,North and South America, Asia performing at Jazzfestivals like Montreux, Northsea and Montreal. The music is composed by Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson but with contribution also from the bass player Jimmi Roger Pedersen and drummer David Sundby. Mwendo Dawa has also during the years been a nursery for several well known Swedish musicians like bass players Anders Jormin and Lars Danielsson and guitar player Read more
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Mwendo Dawa: Mwendo Dawa Music
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish quartet Mwendo Dawa (in Swahili: the way to a special goal) is co-led by keyboardist Susanna Lindeborg and reed player Ove Johansson, both also working as a duo and running the LJ Records label, which has operated since the late seventies and defined its own means of musical expression. Throughout the years, this quartet has hosted several well known Swedish musicians like bassists Anders Jormin and Lars Danielsson, as well as guitarist Ulf Wakenius. The ...
read moreSusanna Lindeborgs and Mwendo Dawa Release "Mwendo Dawa Music"
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Susanna Lindeborg
Susanna Lindeborgs Mwendo Dawa has a new CD Mwendo Dawa Music" (LJ Records, LJCD5256) MWENDO DAWA MUSIC - the title describes the personal and recognizable sound of MWENDO DAWA. Despite its long existence MWENDO DAWA still is a force into todays new music both in expression, technique and instrumental control. Jazz - freeform - fusion - avant-garde - electro acoustic music - but foremost exciting and unpredictable music. Provocative? Challenging? Creative? - The music is definately not halfhearted and wants ...
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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa "A Taste of Four Free Minds" LJCD5248
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Experience Mwendo Dawa! Jazz - free-form - fusion - avant garde - electro acoustic music or just Mwendo Dawa! The group from the start led and developed by Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson is not only fronting these two musicians but also consists of four very strong personalities and four utterly skillful musicians and improvisers. SUSANNA LINDEBORG'S MWENDO DAWA is a Swedish quartet formed by Susanna Lindeborg, piano and keyboard together with Ove Johansson, tenorsax and EWI. The name MWENDO ...
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"Keyboard innovator Susanna Lindeborg and tenor saxophonist/EWI player Ove Johansson have presented Sweden’s answer to Weather Report with their daring electro-acoustic quartet Mwendo Dawa. Here they step further into theavant-garde realm than ever before." Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes "Swedish improvisational quartet Mwendo Dawa maps out broad landscapes of stark beauty, roams the streets of cold, robotic cities and plows through oppressive, overgrown jungles of sound." Forrest Dylan Bryant, JazzTimes ”The average jazz listener should not be put off that Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa is avant-garde jazz