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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa
Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Time Sign
by John Kelman
Translated from Swahili, Mwendo Dawa means “the way to a special goal.” With Time Sign , Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa group is clearly charting a unique direction towards a very special goal all its own.
Lindeborg is a classically-trained pianist who switched over to improvised music in the 1970s, gradually incorporating electronic keyboards to supplement her strong acoustic approach. Synthesizers are used to supplement the essentially acoustic sound of Mwendo Dawa, although there are times, as in the introduction to ...
read moreSusanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Live in Goteborg
by AAJ Staff
Susanna Lindeborg is a Swedish pianist and composer who has been very active on the Scandinavian jazz scene since the late seventies. She was originally a classical pianist but developed a strong interest in improvised music and has since developed a quite expansive definition of what improvised music may mean. Her longstanding outfit, Mwendo Dawa, plays from a well of stylistic sounds that includes post-bop, the avant-garde, and electronica, as Lindeborg has chosen to integrate innovations such as drum-and-bass patterns, ...
read moreSusanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa: Breathing Clusters
by Glenn Astarita
Classically trained Swedish Pianist Susanna Lindeborg plays with conviction and at times relies on a “heavy-handed approach. Not one for nimble and soft fingering on the keys, Ms Lindeborg creates intriguing themes and frequently shifts “musical” strategies throughout this recording. Backed by her long time band called “Mwendo Dawa”, which in Swahili means “the way to a special goal” Lindeborg and Co. go for the jugular with crafty ensemble work that packs a mean punch. Lindeborg is responsible for 2 ...
read moreSusanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa "A Taste of Four Free Minds" LJCD5248
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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 ...
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