Songs
Title track from the new album
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- country:Sweden
- style(s):Fusion, Afro Jazz
- label:Sing a Song Fighter
- type:Band
- instrumentation:instrumental
- artist contact:Langendorf, Lina
Line up
- Andreas Werliin (drums)
- Daniel Bingert (keys, guitar and saxophone)
- Lina Langendorf (saxophone and compositions)
- Martin Hederos (keys and viola)
- Ole Morten Vågan (bass)
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One of Scandinavia's most explosive live acts - "pushing the boundaries of jazz with a bald rhythmic direction"
The award-winning Langendorf United isn’t just a band. They are a living, breathing phenomenon – five musicians merging into one pulsing body, where the bass beats like a heart, the groove is the air, and every melody becomes a vital breath.
”This music moves your body and shakes your brain” 4/5 Songlines Magazine
Led by saxophonist and composer Lina Langendorf, the band traverses a universe where spiritual jazz, afrobeat, psychedelic sounds and ethio-jazz collide into something entirely their own. Or as Justin Turford put it:
“Outrageously good heavyweight revolutionary jazz!”
Langendorf United consists of some of the finest musicians within the Scandinavian modern jazz scene (Tonbruket, Fire!, Trondheim Jazzorchestra, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, among others). Humour, playfulness and curiosity play a big part in their approach to music. As well as an urge to unite in the music. When playing live that includes the audience too of course and that is kind of a spiritual felling. When the band and the audience unite in this musical journey together
”In an oasis of concerts, art exhibitions and bustling social life, yesterday I got to experience one of the best concerts ever: Langendorf United. Groovy jazz rooted in African rhythms plus small touches of soul and rock.” - Svein Hammer/Hemnes Jazz Festival
Langendorf United surprised the world when their debut album Yeahno Yowouw Land was released in 2023. Concerts sold out, they where awarded the Manifest Award (Swedens alternative Grammy) and were acknowledged over the whole world incl. Songlines Magazine that selected Yeahno Yowouw Land as one of the top 10 albums during spring 2023. Lina Langendorf has also been praised by legends as dr. Mulatu Astatke and Abegasu Shiota.
”Just as you thought the Ethio jazz revival had died down along comes one of Sweden’s leading sax exponents, Lina Langendorf, with her own funktified, psychedelic Ethio-jazz fusion… This is going to be a live show and a half.” - The Slow Music Movement
"Undercover Beast’ reinforces the fact that Langendorf United really are quite an extraordinary band. Their collective musical talents, group synergy and Lina Langendorf’s finely tuned compositional brilliance means that the five Swedes can take traditions from other countries and histories and dare to spin them into dynamic new places, always with respect to the source but with an artfulness and courage that deserves wide acclaim. 10/10.” - Truth & Lies Music Magazine 10/10
Lina Langendorf, a saxophonist already knighted by Mulatu Astatke himself (yes, the godfather of ethio-jazz), has shaped, along with her collaborators, a sonic monster that breathes, gasps, and swallows you whole.” - Djolo - Cultures d’Afrique