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SUSANNA LINDEBORG'S MWENDO DAWA is always an adventure listening to. They were a bit of pioneers when the group was formed in the 70th when it came to combining expression of Jazz and traditional instruments together with the possibilities given by new instruments of the time. And they still are. Apart from most others fascinated by the same possibilities at the time. Musically MWENDO DAWA is now working with improvisation in serial technique with electro acoustical backgrounds but with a strong rythmical approach. The group is still now, 30 years later, as much pioneers as ever before. MWENDO DAWA is updated on all frontiers, the musical vision is still there but has changed and grown not only together with technological progress. The question rises if not MWENDO DAWA is better than ever before. MWENDO DAWA has since the start been succesfully touring in 26 countries in Europe,North and South America, Asia performing at Jazzfestivals like Montreux, Northsea and Montreal. The music is composed by Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson but with contribution also from the bass player Jimmi Roger Pedersen and drummer David Sundby. Mwendo Dawa has also during the years been a nursery for several well known Swedish musicians like bass players Anders Jormin and Lars Danielsson and guitar player Read more

" data-original-title="" title="">Ulf Wakenius. Susanna Lindeborg, piano, 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 is mostly known from the group Mwendo Dawa, which she has been leader of together with tenor player Ove Johansson. In 2015 Ove Johansson passed away and since then MWENDO DAWA continued as MWENDO DAWA TRIO. Ove Johansson, tenor saxophone, composer. His musical work was stretched all the way from straight ahead, free form and electronic jazz to the acoustic and electro acoustical mix of today. He produced more than 30 albums with his own material and with the group Mwendo Dawa.The style of Ove Johansson always was 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. He was always in the frontline according to new music. Started his own small record label LJ Records 1989 presenting his own and new Scandinavian jazz music internationally, until now 61 titles. Has been awarded several art grants over the years. Jimmi Roger Pedersen (1965), Danish double bass player and composer,born and raised in Copenhagen. Been touring a lot both as a accompanist and a member of different groups in Sweden, Germany, France, Portugal, England, Italy ,USA ,Canada and recorded radio and television broadcasts plus music documentary film. As an example has had a duo with pianist Horace Parlan for more than 10 years. JRP has founded his own label and released the solo bass CD ”Bass Only ” consisting all original music. JRP also made his own publishing and released 4 booklets in the series ”Scandinavian Double Bass Technique ”.This school of bass explains and develops a technique that highly bears the impress of the deceased NHØP. David Sundby drums, is Norwegian and a multi-instrumentalist. David is a great creative musician whose playing is very spontanous. His is one of the most significant players of Scandinavia today, and his playing stretches all the way from total technical and theoretical control to completely free playing. He has been a member of Mwendo Dawa for a long time and has been touring internationally with the group and been very much contributing to the special sound of Mwendo Dawa. He came in his early 20th to Sweden, made his studies in Gothenburg and has since then played with a lot of both Swedish and Norwegian groups and musicians. He has been active in Norway playing at many of their Jazz festivals and performed with musicians like Philippe Catherine and George Garzone. He has also a dramatic side and is doing solo performances where his lively expression is deeply appreciated.

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Mwendo Dawa: Mwendo Dawa Music

Read "Mwendo Dawa Music" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Swedish quartet Mwendo Dawa (in Swahili: the way to a special goal) is co-led by keyboardist Susanna Lindeborg and reed player Ove Johansson, both also working as a duo and running the LJ Records label, which has operated since the late seventies and defined its own means of musical expression. Throughout the years, this quartet has hosted several well known Swedish musicians like bassists Anders Jormin and Lars Danielsson, as well as guitarist Ulf Wakenius. The ...

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Susanna Lindeborgs and Mwendo Dawa Release "Mwendo Dawa Music"

Susanna Lindeborgs and Mwendo Dawa Release "Mwendo Dawa Music"

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

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

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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 ...

"Keyboard innovator Susanna Lindeborg and tenor saxophonist/EWI player Ove Johansson have presented Sweden’s answer to Weather Report with their daring electro-acoustic quartet Mwendo Dawa. Here they step further into theavant-garde realm than ever before." Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes "Swedish improvisational quartet Mwendo Dawa maps out broad landscapes of stark beauty, roams the streets of cold, robotic cities and plows through oppressive, overgrown jungles of sound." Forrest Dylan Bryant, JazzTimes ”The average jazz listener should not be put off that Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa is avant-garde jazz

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