Jazz Articles about Barlast

Barlast: Svanvik

by Anthony Shaw
December 4, 2019

This second album from Barlast, a self-proclaimed folk-jazz quartet from Helsinki, continues much in the vein of their first, Ihantalo released in 2017. Where Ihantalo featured only tunes from bassist Philip Holm, the current album includes five tunes written by the whole band, as well as five more of Holm's, and is sonically more experimental. To say that this music is minimalist is maybe to miss the point that it frequently leans on the interplay between the ...