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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa

Mwendo Dawa

Born: 1974

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

Susanna Lindeborg

Born: April 18, 1952

Susanna Lindeborg, piano,keyboard, composer. After receiving a classical education she came during the 70th into contact with improvised jazz music, which became an important source of inspiration.

What you first think of together with Susanna Lindeborg is her virtuouso play on the piano mixed with electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group {{m: Mwendo Dawa = 19835}}, which she is the leader of together with saxophone player {{m: Ove Johansson = 17430}}. {{m: Mwendo Dawa = 19835}} has been succesfully touring in 25 countries in Europe, North and South America, China performing at festivals like Montreux, Northsea and Montreal. The last few years she has been regularly visiting USA and Canada with {{m: Mwendo Dawa = 19835}}. Susanna also writes a lot of the repertoire for the group.

Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Live at Fasching

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 11, 2007

Segnali indecifrabili provenienti dall’iperspazio, liquide cascate di impulsi tecnologici, spiritati accordi di piano, la batteria che spande frammenti ritmici come fossero polvere cosmica. L’ennesima riedizione del Sun Ra d’annata più sperimentale e creativo? Niente affatto. Semplicemente i primi due minuti di Live at Fasching, ultima fatica discografica del quartetto Mwendo Dawa di Susanne Lindeborg, compassata signora ...

Time Sign

By Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa

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Released: 2004
Track listing: 2nd of July; Ballad for 12; Mixed Series; Free Fall; Short Theme; Alone Piano; Time Sign; Techno 4 Four; Serious Serie; Autumnmix; Twelve Times

Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Time Sign

by Joshua Weiner
March 1, 2004

“Mwendo Dawa,” this Swedish group’s press kit informs me, means “the way to a special goal” in Swahili. On the evidence presented by Time Sign, their “special goal” is to create some of the thorniest, most vertiginous fusion out there today. In this they succeed, with sometimes thrilling results. The difficulty of some of the music, ...

Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Time Sign

by John Kelman
January 8, 2004

Translated from Swahili, Mwendo Dawa means “the way to a special goal.” With Time Sign , Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa group is clearly charting a unique direction towards a very special goal all its own. Lindeborg is a classically-trained pianist who switched over to improvised music in the 1970s, gradually incorporating electronic keyboards to supplement her ...

Live in Goteborg

By Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa

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Released: 2001
Track listing: 1) Logic Steps 2) Nej prov igen 3) Breathing Clusters 4) Kind of Silence 5) Omkring middagen 6) Antitime Nr 1 7) Ostinato Movements 8) Den forladte 9) Between the Loops.

Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Live in Goteborg

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2001

Susanna Lindeborg is a Swedish pianist and composer who has been very active on the Scandinavian jazz scene since the late seventies. She was originally a classical pianist but developed a strong interest in improvised music and has since developed a quite expansive definition of what improvised music may mean. Her longstanding outfit, Mwendo Dawa, plays ...

Breathing Clusters

By Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa

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Released: 1999