Yeahno Yowouw Land

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. Here, modes and grooves of Ethiopian jazz (à la Mulatu Astatke) meet futuristic spiritualism from outer space, hints of mesmerising desert blues, and flickers of dub and electronic psychedelia. Glimmering threads of European jazz weave through, with sweet melodic lines trickling over throbbing rhythms, and blooming into howling, cathartic peaks that pass into the world of free improv.

Led by Swedish saxophonist-composer Lina Langendorf, this powerful Scandinavian quintet beautifully balances these well-honed sounds and energies. Keys (Daniel Bingert and Martin Hederos) and sax move in and out of the dancing rhythm section, driven perpetually forwards by Ole Morten Vågan on double bass and Andreas Werliin on drums. Full of motion and delicate intentionality, the album is simultaneously raw and playful. Its whole is intoxicating. This is music for the mind and the body, for dancing and trancing, for socialising, and for deep, meditative listening.