”Lina Langendorf sounds as if she has been raised in Addis Ababas night club life during early 1970-tal. Magic, cosmic jazz.” 

Jan Gradvall chooses 3 favorits

”The golden recipe for her music is the variety of melodies, futuristic sounds and traditional music.” 3fach

”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

Lina Langendorf is an award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast Sweden, currently based in Stockholm.
With curiosity as her life long companion in music she has been collaborating with many different artists in different genres throughout the years. From jazz to reggae to Mali blues, Ethio-jazz, pop, rock and balkan music. Her music and musicianship has received praise from Songlines Magazine, Aquarium Drunkard, Lira Magazine and dr. Mulatu Astatke among others. It has also been broadcast on Sveriges Radio as well as BBC. 2024 her band Langendorf United recieved the Manifest Award, in the Rhythm category, for the debut album Yeahno Yowouw Land.

As a special guest or as a regular member of the band Lina has been heard live with artists such as Mulatu Astatke, Toumani Diabaté, Eek-A-Mouse, Vieux Farka Touré, OK Star Orchestra, James Yorkston & Nina Persson with Second Hand Orchestra, Andreas Mattsson, Jenny Wilson, Stefan Sundström, Peter Morén, Marit Bergman, Tibble Transsibiriska, Samuel Yirga, Alemayehu Eshete, Ras Kimono, bob hund and Alabaster Deplume.

Lina is a frekvently engaged studio musician playing not only saxophones but also flute, clarinet and bass clarinet. She also makes arrangements for the woodwind instruments.

”Yeahno Yowouw Land is deep and earthy, and high and celestial; it's a land of swirling euphoria and wholesome, grounding certainty; it's tight-knit and intimate, and a vast, all-encompassing expanse. Built upon layers of driving rhythms and hypnotic melodic figures, Langendorf United channel sonic flavours from across the globe into this soaring debut." Songlines Magazine 5/5

”It’s a mind-blowing, psychotropic debut single that will literally take you on a unique sonic journey to the Kalahari desert”

Last Day Deaf about the single Selam New

”Yeahno Yowouw Land, a smoldering mind-meld of free, spiritual, ethio-jazz recorded over two days with players from Sweden and Norway… …The unfamiliarity results in a crackling spontaneity and a boundless motion - viola, keys, and bass experience a psychedelic coalescence while Langendorf searches frantically and fearlessly on saxophone. Galactic synths drive the motor rhythm of quicksand krautrock excursions and languid dips into spiritual jazz”
 Aquarium Drunkard

”From the very first second of the opening song Selam New, saxophonist Lina Langendorf sets the tone for her new band. With her tight sax riffs, this party gets started in no time" "Jazzy soulful sax solos, twisted riffs, psychedelic guitars, heavy bass lines and lots of rhythms... above all, and all the time, a whole lot of groove”
The Swedish Music Magazine Lira

”Lina Langendorf offers mind-expanding Ethiopian jazz with super-swinging grooves wrapped in decorative patterns created by analog synths mastered by Martin Hederos and Daniel Bingert... ...together with Werliin, the bass player Ole Morten Vågan creates an organic foundation for the remaining band members to roam freely on. And they do.” 
Gussy Löwenhielm, Opulens

”The music of Langendorf United is intressting, rich and diverse. We invite you to discover their music with this beautiful album, Yeahno Yowouw Land”

Djolo, cultures d’Afrique et d’ailleurs

”They may be a completely new constellation in the jazz sky, but Lina Langendorf and her quintet own the listener from the first saxophone riff. With a rare clarity, they evoke echoes of Addis Ababa as well as New York. But other places also emerge in their improvisations, in the meeting between acoustic and electronic. Places that cannot be found on maps - worlds to get lost in. It's tight, full on and bubbling with the joy of discovery.” Clandestinofestivalen