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Ove Johansson: Coast

Read "Coast" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Arrivare alla quinta incisione da soli non è semplice, anche per il semplice fatto che bisogna sempre inventare qualcosa di nuovo per il pubblico di appassionati. Il precedente disco in solo di Ove Johansson era ispirato dalla costa di Steninge, in Svezia, ed anche questo, che ne rappresenta la continuazione e porta un titolo più generico, è ispirato al mare. Johansson al sax tenore è un musicista molto robusto ed all'EWI (Electric Wind Instrument) si diverte con ventiquattro toni in ...

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Susanna Lindeborg: Time Sign

Read "Time Sign" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich


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 ...

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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Time Sign

Read "Time Sign" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


“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, ...


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