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Susanna Lindeborg

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 Mwendo Dawa, which she is the leader of together with saxophone player Ove Johansson. Mwendo Dawa 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 Mwendo Dawa. Susanna also writes a lot of the repertoire for the group.


Besides Mwendo Dawa Susanna Lindeborg toured a great deal with the female jazz group Salamanders during the beginning of the 80th. Salamander arouse a lot of attention on the European continent and in USA and Susanna came to tour a lot internationally with these two groups.


Together with Ove Johansson you could also hear her in the Elisa Fiorillo LJCD5229, was released 2001 with acoustic piano together with electronic backgrounds. Third soloCD came 2010 titled "Excursions".

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Album Review

Natural Artefacts: California Connection

Read "California Connection" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Keyboardist Susanna Lindeborg and her Swedish band-mates form a bond with San Francisco Bay Area musicians, percussionist and electronics performer Gino Robair and electronics denizen Tim Perkis on this venturesome set recorded live at UC Berkeley and in the studio. As the Natural Artefacts band originated when Lindeborg and her longtime musical partner, saxophonist Ove Johansson collaborated with fellow countryman, composer and electronics ace Per Anders Nilsson. Many of these pieces are titled after California bridges that underscore ...

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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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Susanna Lindeborg & Ove Johansson - Duo: Structures

Read "Structures" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


On Structures, tenor saxophonist and exponent of the EWI (electronic wind instrument) Ove Johansson performs a series of semi-free and at times, structured pieces with his longtime associate, keyboardist and compatriot Ms. Susanna Lindeborg. Here, Johansson’s hard, yet fluid blowing counterbalances Ms. Lindeborg’s Euro-classical and jazz-based articulations behind the keys.

The opener, a composition titled “Stage 13” subliminally references that now familiar ECM-ish sound complete with ethereal EFX treatments, a smidgen of reverb and Johansson’s acerbic and somewhat propulsive sax ...

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Susanna Lindeborgs and Mwendo Dawa Release "Mwendo Dawa Music"

Susanna Lindeborgs and Mwendo Dawa Release "Mwendo Dawa Music"

Source: Susanna Lindeborg

Susanna Lindeborgs Mwendo Dawa has a new CD “Mwendo Dawa Music" (LJ Records, LJCD5256) MWENDO DAWA MUSIC - the title describes the personal and recognizable sound of MWENDO DAWA. Despite its long existence MWENDO DAWA still is a force into todays new music both in expression, technique and instrumental control. Jazz - freeform - fusion - avant-garde - electro acoustic music - but foremost exciting and unpredictable music. Provocative? Challenging? Creative? - The music is definately not halfhearted and wants ...

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Susanna Lindeborg/Ove Johansson Duo at Drom (NYC) April 5th

Susanna Lindeborg/Ove Johansson Duo at Drom (NYC) April 5th

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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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Pianist Susanna Lindeborg Releases Third Solo CD

Pianist Susanna Lindeborg Releases Third Solo CD

Source: Michael Ricci

Excursions presents the third solo CD of Susanna Lindeborg in sparkling personal piano improvisations. A couple of tracks combined with electro acoustical back grounds. 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 Mwendo Dawa. Susanna has been successfully touring internationally in Europe, North and South America and China performing successfully at festivals like Montreux, North Sea and Montreal. ...

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Susanna Lindeborg Live Video Web Concert

Susanna Lindeborg Live Video Web Concert

Source: Michael Ricci

Welcome to a live video concert on the web with three solo performances: Susanna Lindeborg, piano Ove Johansson, tenorsax, laptop Lars-Erik Norrstrm, piano, keyboard This is in the series of 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 click here. Saturday January 16th, 2010 Sweden, European time 4 pm US eastern time 10 am. If you cannot make ...

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Susanna Lindeborg & Ove Johansson Live Video Internet Concert

Susanna Lindeborg & Ove Johansson Live Video Internet Concert

Source: 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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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa "A Taste of Four Free Minds" LJCD5248

Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa  "A Taste of Four Free Minds" LJCD5248

Source: All About Jazz

Experience Mwendo Dawa! Jazz - free-form - fusion - avant garde - electro acoustic music or just Mwendo Dawa! The group from the start led and developed by Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson is not only fronting these two musicians but also consists of four very strong personalities and four utterly skillful musicians and improvisers. SUSANNA LINDEBORG'S MWENDO DAWA is a Swedish quartet formed by Susanna Lindeborg, piano and keyboard together with Ove Johansson, tenorsax and EWI. The name MWENDO ...

"It is great that she - a lone woman - can create just that supplement of sounds and harmonics which she thinks the (very beautifully recorded) good old sounds of grand piano shall be accompanied by. It is lovely to receive noble analogue nice sounds together with the machines keeping othercolourings in the background, or the opposite." Anders Kirkegaard, JazzSpecial Danmark


”Susanna Lindeborg is a refreshingly original voice that easily holds the listener's attention for a full-length solo album: not an easy feat.” Steven Loewy, Cadence, USA

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Second Occasions

LJ Records
2020

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The Crux

LJRecords
2019

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Silent Voice

LJ Records
2018

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LJ Records
2014

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