Natural artefacts

electro acoustic jazz

About us

Natural Artefacts was originally formed as a trio in 2000. After a few years’ break, when saxophonist Ove Johansson passed away in 2015, the remaining original members Susanna Lindeborg and Per Anders Nilsson started a new edition in 2018, now together with guitar player Merje Kägu and Anton Jonsson on percussion, and in 2022 saxophonist Thomas Jäderlund joined the group. The point of departure is, and has always been, a mix of acoustic and electronic instruments, where influences from different genres and traditions are central. Here we can mention free improvisation, contemporary art and experimental music, minimalism, electronica and electroacoustic music. What unites the musicians, however, is their background as jazz musicians. With a repertoire consisting of compositions, looser structures and electronic backgrounds, specially made for this setting, with jazz as a point of departure Natural Artefacts explore new and unknown musical terrain improvisationally. Natural Artefacts has so far released four albums on LJ Records, the latest being The Crux from 2019.

Natural Artefacts concists of:
Anton Jonsson, drums, Thomas Jäderlund, saxophones, Merje Kägu, guitar, Susanna Lindeborg, piano, keyboard, live electronics, Per Anders Nilsson, live electronics.

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Susanna Lindeborg

Susanna Lindeborg (1952) is primarily known for her mix of acoustic and electronic instruments, mostly in the group Mwendo Dawa. Lindeborg has toured extensively internationally with successes in Europe, the Americas, and China, on festivals such as Montreux, North Sea, and Montreal. In recent years she has toured regularly in the US, Canada and Europe …

Per Anders Nilsson

Per Anders Nilsson (1954) is an electro acoustic improviser and composer and in addition Ph.D./Professor Emeritus in music at University of Gothenburg. At te outset a free jazz musician, eventually experimenting with computers and algorithms in jazz already in the early 1990s, and have released pioneering albums combining improvisation with advanced technology, solo and with his …

Thomas Jäderlund

Thomas Jäderlund is a well-known profile in Swedish jazz and has been, or is, a member of Änglaspel, Position Alpha, Cool Funeral Beer Band and not least his own trio TJAT, the Thomas Jäderlund Amazing Trio, which released a critically acclaimed CD get a few years ago.

Merje Kägu

Merje Kägu (1986) is an Estonian guitarist and composer, currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. She studied jazz guitar at the Estonian Academy of Music and graduated the master program in improvisation at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. She has appeared with her original music and collaborated with inspiring musicians in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, …

Anton Jonsson

Anton Jonsson (1990) is a Swedish jazz and freejazz drummer. He grew up in Kungsfors outside Sandviken. Jonsson started to play drums at the age of five and in his early teens he started to perform rock’n’roll music around Sweden. Eventually he discovered jazz, free improvised music and free jazz. He studied at Bollnäs Folkhögskola, …