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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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
About Music from Steninge: There´s a helpful pointer to Steninge. If this is the kind of stuff that passas there with any regularity, it should be an essential destination. Brian Morton , The Wire, UK
About Lindeborg/Johansson Duo Thoughtful World: The best is when Lindeborg and Johansson as LJ Duo on Thoughtful World plays together and the best from the two solo worlds melts together in an inspiring jazz ensemble. The two are really close together, where they from the wide terrain in the electronic laptops with the duo ensemble all the time leed to new paths and roundabouts. And you can find it all, as in the title piece ballad like impressionism to quiet tenderness. Frithjof Strauß, Jazz Podium
About Susanna Lindeborg´s Mwendo Dawa A taste of four free minds: 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 the avant-garde realm than ever before. Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes
About Susanna Lindeborg´s Mwendo Dawa Mwendo Dawa Music: Mwendo Dawa offer exemplary collective and accessible improvisations by four highly creative musicians. Eyal Hareuveni, AllAboutJazz, USA
To experiment: a trip full of surprises that has something for every listener! Jérôme Partage, JazzHot, France
Mwendo Dawa Music goes in similar ways as the previous album 2008 showed in A Taste of four free Minds, which made a great impact on me. Jazzrytmit, Finland
Mwendo Dawa are making some of the most invigorating music around today. Michael Tucker, JazzJournal, UK
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