One of Scandinavia’s most explosive live acts
“…pushing the boundaries of jazz with a bold rhythmic exploration”
“This music moves your body and shakes your brain"
- Songlines Magazine 4/5 (2025)
"…sounding as relevant and vital as anything coming out of the alt-jazz scenes of, say, London or Chicago.”
- Truth & Lies Music Magazine 10/10 (2025)
Langendorf United is Linas star-studded band consisting of some of the finest musicians within the Scandinavian modern jazz scene (Tonbruket, Trondheim Jazzorchestra, Wildbirds and Peacedrums to mention a few).
Together Langendorf United create an organic, mind-blowing groove where the band turns into a vibrating body, embracing many genres. Ethio jazz meets Mali Blues, meets gospel, meets afro beat that meets melancholic melodies. Melodies that breathes Scandinavian soul as well as influences from both the Mandinka tradition and the characteristic Ethiopian tonalities and where the bass lines continuously acts as supporting pillars, being the very driving force that moves the music forward.
”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 at Hemnes Jazz Festival
The two award winning albums
Yeahno Yowouw Land and Undercover Beast
Undercover Beast (2025) has been acknowledged by DJs like Giles Petersen (BBC6 and BBCSounds), Tina Edwards, Josh Mason-Quinn at Somewhere Soul. Many other radioshows and music magazines around the world have spinned and highlighted the album. RTVE in Spain, New Sounds/WNYC radio in the US, Music Magazine in Japan among others.
In March 2026 Langendorf United received the Manifest Award, in the Rhythm category, for the album and it is also nominated for a Swedish Grammis 2026 as “Jazz album of the year”.
Yeahno Yowouw Land (2023) was featured on Songlines Magazine’s Top of the World Selection (the ten best new albums) in June 2023.
In March 2024 the band received the Manifest Award, in the Rhythm category, for the album. Selam New also started the entire Bandcamp Weekly and was picked as album of the week by legendary music producer Tony Hyenen on Global Riddim.
Voices about Langendorf United
”A power of musical expression and also a joy of playing that is immediately infectious”
- Jazz Thing & Blue Rhythm Magazine
“Langendorf United to the Champions Leauge!” - Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts
“Outrageously good heavyweight revolutionary jazz!” - Justin Turford, Ex-friendly/Truth & Lies
“Langendorf United are bursting with energy and spontaneous twists, blowing most others out of the water - a playful and boundary defying force of nature.”
- SVT Kulturnyheterna
“Lina Langendorf sounds as if she’s been raised in Addis Ababas night club life during the 1970’s. Magic, cosmic jazz.”
- Jan Gradvall, DI
“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 o be a live show and a half.”
- The Slow Music Movement
“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 Slow
“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 (four Swedes + one Norwegian) 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
- Truth & Lies Music Magazine
“Langendorf United: The Groovy Vibe Machine” - Le Groove