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Ove Johansson
Ove Johansson, tenorsax, composer, had since the end of the fifties been leading his own groups and been a driving force of the Swedish jazz scene, he was also musical director of Mwendo Dawa. Although he has been very active on the Swedish jazz scene since several years his most rewarding efforts has been with Mwendo Dawa.
Ove Johansson's musical work stretches all the way from straight ahead, free form and electronic jazz to the acoustic and electro acoustical mix of today. With Mwendo Dawa he has been able to present his music throughout the world- both in Europe, North and South America and China, and he has produced 35 albums with his own material and with the group. The last CD with the group Mwendo Dawa Music was released 2012.
The style of Ove Johansson has always been very personal with a powerful and intense performance and a rare sound and technique. Contrary to a lot of other players, he has not got caught in the style he began to play in, but has during the years all the time been renewing his own playing and musical expression as well as Mwendo Dawa's. He was always in the frontline according to new music.
Ove Johanssons' second solo CD In a different world, received a lot of attention in USA and Canada and was elected in beginning of 1998 to CD of the week of Jazz Review, USA. His third solo CD came August 2002 with the title Logic Steps (LJRecords. The CD Music from Steninge was released Jan 2005 and Coast 2010. Ove Johansson's Solo CD In a different world (produced 1997) JAZZREVIEW, USA said ”The sound of a musician creating new sounds new rhythms and new deep soul piercing notes is very refreshing for a Jazz fanatic. Improvi- sational Jazz at its very best".
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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 moreSusanna Lindeborg/Ove Johansson Duo at Drom (NYC) April 5th
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Susanna Lindeborg
Susanna Lindeborg/Ove Johansson Duo will perform at Drom, New York April 5th Mix of acoustics and electronics—Jazz—freeform—fusion—avant garde—electro acoustic music with acoustic instruments in focus together with live electronics on computers. New CDs: Thoughtful World, LJDuo, Excursions, Susanna Lindeborg solo, Coast Ove Johansson solo. Susanna is nominated for the Nordic Music Prize 2011. About the new CDs: “The two are really close tog ether, where they from the wide terrain in the electronic laptops with the duo ensemble all the ...
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New Solo CD by Ove Johansson (Coast LJ Records, LJCD5251)
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Michael Ricci
This fifth solo CD by Ove Johansson is a follow up to the previous CD Music from Steninge. Here he uses sound combinations as chords changes or mixed with electro acoustic sound design, all in the spirit of improvisation. EWI (Electric Wind Instrument) is used with 24 tones in an octave and in some chord improvisations. Previous solo CDs by Ove Johansson has been payed attention to internationally and resulted in many interesting concert scenes. Ove Johansson “solo" LJ Records ...
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Ove Johansson Live Video Web Concert on December 12th
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Michael Ricci
This is the third web video concert 2009 produced by LJ Records, Sweden with an ambition of regularity to present new music, improvised acoustic and electronic jazz. You are invited to a live video concert over Internet from Halmstad, Sweden Saturday December 12th at 4 pm Swedish European time with Duo PantoMorf, Palle Dahlstedt nordmodular G2 / Per Anders Nilsson nordmodular G2 and Natural Artefacts, Ove Johansson, tenorsax/laptop Susanna Lindeborg, piano/laptop and Per Anders Nilsson, computer. Enjoy the concert live ...
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Susanna Lindeborg & Ove Johansson Live Video Internet Concert
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All About Jazz
Welcome to a live video concert on the web with LJ Duo Susanna Lindeborg, piano, laptop Ove Johansson, tenorsax, laptop This is the first web concert produced by LJ Records, Sweden with an ambition of regularity to present new music, improvised acoustic and electronic jazz. To enjoy the concert live you can find it on: mms://videoarkivet.hh.se/gemaket Saturday October 10th, 2009 Sweden, European time 4 pm US eastern time 10 am For Mac users Window Media Player and Flip4Mac found on: ...
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There are few white saxophone players that has such a black feeling like Ove Johansson. NYE TAKTER, NORWAY.
Ove Johansson's tenor playing has a force and intensy that is rare in Swedish jazz. HALLANDSPOSTEN, SWEDEN.
The tenor player Ove Johansson is a very powerful and inventive saxplayer, who all the time strives to really improvise. JAZZPODIUM, GERMANY.
When Ove Johansson blew his horn, the audience was faced with an intense, adrinalized artist of wall-moving power. EDMONTON JOURNAL, CANADA.
About Coast: The complexity of the weave between real and synthetic saxes lays out a beautiful soundscape to correlate with the seascape, leaving the mind aglow. This is a work that evolves just as nature does, starting out quiet and simple, with wrinkles of difference and mutation, moving towards a sound environment that denotes havoc and imbalance often enough, but ultimately achieves a homeostasis in which even the turmoil is beautiful in contextual retrospect. Gordon Marshall, NewYorkCity Jazzrecord
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Ove Johansson
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
Born: December 3, 1936
Died: December 25, 2015
