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Jimmi Roger Pedersen
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Jimmi was nominated as best solo instrumentalist in The 2009 JPF Music Awards in Nashville, TN USA. Recieved multiple national grants over the years.
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Susanna Lindeborg: Time Sign
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 ...
read moreSusanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Time Sign
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, ...
read more"JRP has international class - one clearly senses his distinguished feeling for theme and solo playing". Lars Stentoft, Herning Folkeblad
"JRP is a brilliant bass player, and his playing is character sized by great concentration, and calm, but very energetic, appearance". Bjarne Nielsen, Vendsyssel Tidende
Primary Instrument
Bass, acoustic
Willing to teach
Advanced only