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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 svedese di formazione accademica, con il vizio per la musica improvvisata e per le manipolazioni elettroniche. Fra i tanti progetti in corso, il quartetto ...

Susanna Lindeborg: Time Sign

by Matthew Wuethrich
May 2, 2004

On Time Sign Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa has made one big mess. Depending on how clean a person you are, this could be good or bad. If you like to shove all sorts of timbral colors, rhythms, sonic textures and loose song structures into the closet, then open it and see what floods out, then this record is for you.

“Mwendo Dawa" is Swahili for “the way to a special goal," and Time Sign reaches for an ecstatic ...

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, however, may make it as incomprehensible to some listeners as, well, Swahili.

Mwendo Dawa is led by keyboardist Susanna Lindeborg, who, ...